Vaaranam Aayiram Ultimate Review

Its ultimate review, cos you will know why ... read on !!
The movie is worth watching, not just for the father son relation, but to see the nuances of the love between Surya and Sameera Reddy.
I could only say, Gautham - the director, could have said lot lot more... I know its a commercial movie. But a beautiful story showing father son relationship "will will will" be lot more. Almost every father does that kind of care, almost every son also falls in love and fails, goes to drink, smoke and late night wandering. I have done that. But my memories with my father if I want to mention are more. I know for sure, since my father passed recently and what all memories came to me and in what sequence. That good sequence is missing in the movie.
Why did the first love is killed, it was shown beautifully!!! I could not accept it. Gautam is excellent we all know showing love scenes.
Surya's dad says in the first, when he is born, that my son should be lucky, because he is my son. Gautam would have better said, how the to be lost love was got with by his father's , love and blessings. Would not that be great!! By killing S.Reddy and second love with Divya, it just shows yet another movie. A lot of things had been shown, too much confusing and condensing. First love, second love, love failure, drugs, wandering. Gautam did not show how his father helped his son to get back from drugs. Am not sure if the theatre where i saw delibrately cut the scene. I am sure it should not be. Cos Gautam in an interview said, he had taken responsibility and had sent the editing teams to precisely cut where they wanted to.

When I was around 12 years, I have watched a movie by name "Veedu", a documentary movie to say straight forward. The same movie could be taken commercially also, but somehow that movie was the one it is. At 12 years of age, I hated that movie like anything. I would do anything from my father and mom watching the movie. Such a boring thing you know. But after 18 years, the movie still lingers in me. Its all experiences, in that movie, real real life experience. This movie for sure is not going to give the feel of the father-son relation in another year. If Gautam's intention was to show his love to his father, I would have suggested leave commercial things, if you wanted to see this movie stand the test of time, go create the best avoiding the unnecessary parts.

Editing sucks!! I could see lot of disconnect. The screenplay not great, especially, I wonder why Surya joined the army, 6 pack etc. Idhu edhuvume illama azhaga solli irukalam. All commercial.
One thing about music, is scintillating. Haris has done his best for the movie. All the songs are ultimate except the "Anjala" song. Needless to be in this movie. I know this is commercial. But i fail to understand how a single such song adds worthy money to the box office.
The song, "Nenjukul peidhidum ma mazhai.." awesome, Haris its lovely dude. I thought no one can do Illayaraja music again, but this song proved. Haris thanks for the great music. The guitar is not used much by all. But most of the songs in this movie, used beautiful Guitar sounds. Appreciate it. Every day minute it lingers in my mind.
And many know this movie is the last with Gautam-Haris combination. I really feel bad. I guess one reason where they would have got issues. Gautam wanted lot of Illayaraja and the Micheal Jackson effect in the "Machi machi .." song. I guess there.
One beautiful thing, I would say (if right) Gautam has showed where he is giving the music is A.R.Rehman. Did you notice the train scene, where Surya and S.Reddy meet first time? Did you note Surya after playing his guitar, where he put the tickle? He carefully had put into the small pocket of his jeans, which spelled "Maestro". I dont think that's coincidence. Thats absolute beautiful direction, for Gautam had said his thoughts.
Surya's acting is good. His effors well appreciated.
In short: Gautam did not show the love between dad and son as much as he showed the love between Surya and Sameera Reddy. Lot of things would be avoided to be a clean movie. Songs too good. Worth watching once, unlike Minnale, I watched around 3 times in theatre.

Crude Oil at $50 a barrel now!

Come on Indians, crude oil has gone to $50 a barrel and you want to sell petrol at the same high price?

And moreover not even selling the normal petrol. The dealers selling only Super Petrol for 3-4 rupees more for the same normal petrol. This is absolute cheating! I could not find any extra mileage with super petrol.

Free "Music" on Public transport

Have you ever traveled by Public Transport. Now a days i do, to handle recession ;-) kidding!

I use trains to travel between Bangalore and Chennai on normal class (reserved or unreserved). And these are the days of music edition mobiles, which people buy and flaunt by showing how powerful their mobile is sounding. The way they increase the sound appears that it shows their masculinity. Rather irritating it is!!

I don't enjoy 10 people sounding with their favorite songs. It is just a noise. Horrible, you will not believe. One playing "Manmadha raasa ... " and another "Mungaru male ...". Clash of the titans ? Huf...

There should be law to prevent these noise at public places like train and buses too. It really changes the mood and you really cant fight with these nasty bugs also being a Thayir sadham (Curd rice eater) and skinny guy. Something should be done my dear. And in between the beggars and vendors who keep crossing and making noise. Vendors selling can be accepted since its their job which feeds them. But not this begging... you know actually these beggars are earning more than most middle class 'janatha'. Do a survey you will find how much. I read in places like Bangalore's MG road, a beggar earns close to 10000 per day. Unbelievable? Believe it! No tax, nothing. Causing lot of inconvenience to public, sanitary issues and theft.

When people like Kalam are no where in a country like India, where will I fit in !!!

Rich can buy more than one car, but Nano should be stopped ?!

This post should have been typed 2 months ago... but rather could not find the time to blog.

I read in papers and viewed news in TV about protests to stop Tata's Nano project. Few of the people argued that the already crowded roads in Bangalore/Chennai and other metros will become more crowded and worse. I agree on that. But ... wait on ...

The same day I read in a newspaper, the automobile section of it, a rich (why you will know 1) person has asked which of the cars he should buy. His question more or less was...

"I need to buy 3 cars, one for my daughter and other two for me. Would prefer to buy two cars with a budget of 15-18 lacs. I would use one for commuting to office and the other on vacations and weekends, where I would be travelling a long distance. Advice me for the options to choose".

The answer was to buy Maruti 800 for his daughter. Buy a Hyundai i10 Petrol for him for office and a Chevy Optra Diesel for long drives.

(1 I assume only rich people can go for such a budget and 3 cars and relatively the fuel for 3 cars too) When rich can go for such a comfort and enjoy plesure why should you rather stop the project which is going to help poor people own cars and go atleast have a way to travel with family if not luxury. Definitely, drive on Nano will be equal to driving a Piaggio Ape.

When a family can buy 3 cars and crowd the roads why should you and me not buy a Nano?

A day to office

I should agree most of them who drive in Bangalore ... "if you reach home that day, it means you have been blessed".

Yea ... everyday mostly the same kind of chaos and inorder while commuting. And getting really pissed off by the careless drivers.

I start at 9 to office, usually the problem starts close to my home itself ... careless people walking on the roads spit to their right (why the hell they don't do it to their left when they walk on the left side of the road!!). Oh someone spits on my foot (i wear slipper), what to say about these idiots, I have to get back home and wash my foot and get back to office, this time bit more tensed and careful.

It once happened, in Chennai a lady spit her chewed up pan on me and my father from the metropolitan bus, while we were on the bike and the worst part is, the lady fisherman community said "what bothers shut and go!" very cheap people. It had happened to me in Bangalore too, but a different version. I wish people stop fighting that they are Kannadigas and Tamilians rather than educating ourselves to be human. Cheap people are there in Bangalore and in Chennai as much as there are Good people.

Then I ply to the "main" road to my office, fortunately we cant drive fast, we dont even know where the pot holes are, new ones made every now and then...

Oooof ... an autowala drives on the wrong side of the road, to avoid extra trip he has to make to take a right turn at the median.

The lorries and cars parked on both sides of the road, usually the cement lorries that are parked on by the side of the road, which occupies around 50% of the road. Luckily, the chaos theory will work perfect, and we can find an auto, bike, tracktor or anything coming on the wrong side trying to move to the other 50% of the road to avoid collision with the vehicle parked on the road.

Oh, oh, oh ... my God luckily escaped this time and it was a turning and i could not even see this vehicle coming...

Sometimes more fortunate i am, the same situation as above, a call centre Sumo or Tavera would speed up and tring to overtake me ... what do I do now? Should I brake or move right or move left! There is a pot hole too ... the cement lorry which just went before has left lot of cement dust and has raised the dirt from the road...

Oh lucky that I escaped today also and reached to office. Thank God! But not always and not for all. Every day I could see atleast 1-2 accidents, 20% of it is fatal. And also I have to go through the same process way back home.

Remember Indian movie, where the sick unable to stand driver manages to get license renewed by bribing the RTO... and Kamal saying, "If you got the license how many of them need to be put rice to their mouth" (typical Desi style)

Will this situation change our India is the big '?'

Please feel free to share your views and experiences by commenting ... atleast I would feel that others also have such bad experiences, rather to find if am paranoid.

என்னுடைய முதல் தமிழ் பதிவம் ! தாய் மொழியில் பேசுவதை விட வேறு இன்பம் இருக்க முடியுமா!!!

Books I bought in 2008 for Rs.3000/-

My budget was 3000 and these were the list of books I bought in 2008 mostly techinal and one management book. I did a lot of R&D and read Jolt awards to arrive at a conclusion. JSP book my personal choice.

The Essential Drucker - The best of 60 years or Peter Drucker's writings
Software Estimation - Steve McConnell
Using UML - Perdita Stevens with Rob Pooley
Agile Estimation and Planning - Mike Cohn
Expert one on one J2EE without EJB - Rod Johnson
Head First EJB
Head First JSP Servlets (However, JSP published by O'Reilly author Hans Bergsten seems to be the best JSP book if you dont want to buy the Head First JSP)

The biker heros

Its always been a problem with these biker heros. The simplest modification they do in their Yamahas and Pulsars is remove the mud-flap. This really causes lot of inconvienience to others.
Yesterday I saw a biker hero roaring in his Pulsar in the rain ravaged muddy, marshy roads of Bangalore spilling dirt on the kid who was sitting in the front of his father's bike. When caught in the traffic signal and said he has spalshed dirt on his kid (on eyes and all over the body during going to school) the biker replied, "come in car if you dont want to get these kinds of dirt on you or on your kid". How inhuman the words!
I felt very bad on hearing these words. Today it was he, might be tomorrow for me, but the words will be the same, inhuman.
For me he didnot appear a hero, he looked like a ravaged zero, which prooved me how he was born and brought up! Such people often dont know what is heroic. He appeared only as a rowdy. Just muscle and mass is not heroic. Heroism is not racing fast on public roads, or with mud flaps removed. Heroism is not talking inhuman. Heroism is just opposite to rowdyism.
I still feel very bad about these kinds of bikers. Everyday there is some or the other. Some times these bikers. Othertimes, the rich guys who drive their cars irresponsibly, with jarring sound in their car as though driving a radio station. Also splashing water on others being in the car. Add to it the call taxi drivers who drive very very bad. It looks so odd guys, it does not make others feel good. Will law enforce peace by punishing such bikes and cars drivers?
Would like to add to it, not just these guys, auto drivers are one amongs these who doesnot have mud flaps and speak very disgusting.
Hey Zeros ... Dont forget you too are going to get married and have kids... you too might not have money to buy a car and take your kid in it. What you sow is what you reap! Wait on you will have your bad turns or better correct and be human and show importance to others. Live in cosmos and not chaos.

Kuselan - projected as Rajini's film

Got some time to watch Kuselan ... the remake of the Malayalam film "Katha Parayumbol" which is a classic. The original version has the Malayalam Mega Star as the part of the story, and its an important role for Mamooty. But Kuselan is projected as Rajini's film for commercial purpose, while it is Pasupathi's movie. Superstar's stardom has eclipsed the good story line of the movie. Pasupathi has acted well.

All contoversies revolved around whether the movie will be released in Bangalore in particular where there are lot of Tamils and other Movie Fans from where the most part of money comes in. As a result Rajini apologied for his "General Statement" during Hogenakal issue. And again this "apology" from Rajini for "General Statement" was projected in Karnataka as "Rajini asked sorry for what talked during Hogenakal issue" and finally the clearance was made to release the movie in Karnataka.

Clearly, this shows Rajini has already got into Politics. To say something and later revert back is what politician does. Frankly, what he talked during Hogenakal issue was bit more, and when he wants "money" he has apologized. I would appreciate this apology when he would have said immediately few days after the Hogenakal issue.

Definitely am a fan of Rajini, that does not mean am a fanatic. If you read
this site you will see lot of comments about the movie.

Finally the movie is frankly not worth to watch in INOX ;-) The last 15 minutes made people cry, sentiment! And the last scene is good. Even in the posters we are able to see everyone in B&W except Rajini.

Day care centers around ITPL - Bangalore

I am merely searching for a good day care centre for my daughter who has turned just one year old. Me and my wife are both working and cannot afford to leave the job in this rising inflation. We had not received our good annual hikes too, averaging 4-5% when the inflation has gone upto 7-8% and may go even more. Crossing our fingers, what to do next; Whether we should stay in Bangalore or go and settle down in some village, living a peaceful life with not a posh life. But a lively life around farms and amidst nature. Things have turned completely different after my daughter's entry. Our priorities have changed. Only priority now is our baby. We dont take proper food, adjust a lot, but take sufficient care of our baby.

All else apart, the purpose of this post. There are very few day care center's around ITPL.

1. Apple Kids - Prashant layout, near O-Farm. Fee seems to be nominal, 2000 to 3000. Kids under age 18 months not admitted.
Ph: 99459 88600

2. WeCare - the most expensive, and not for the janta (i cant afford). Fee of 8000 per month. Registration fee of 1000. Annual Fee of 24000. Total it comes to 1,12,000. Of which 12000 is discount. Sucks!!! More than an engineering college fee. Yet, very posh, professional.
Ph:080-32428895

3. Teddies - near to ITPL, the place looks too deserted and the road to it shows the real face of Bangalore. The lady Sindhu has no experience, just had quit her job and trying to make money in day care. Admits even 3 months old baby. The location is not good. Fee Rs.6000-7000.
Ph: 99008 88211

4. Samskrithi - Montessori. Admits kids of 1 year and 9 months only as its a regular play shcool. Fee of 2000. Could not remember the phone number, but just diagonally opposite to Apple Kids(Prashant Layout).

I heard there are few more in Whitefield, yet to explore. Finally we are left with zero option for my daughter.

Applekids - Good+ISO certified+transportation available but only above 1.5 years,
WeCare - Good, Posh, Good Location, very close to ITPL (should be very useful for people working in ITPL and nearby companies) Cons: very expensive
Teddies - inexperienced+bad location+expensive,
Samskriti - only above 1.9 years. Nominal fee.

Please understand that these are only reflective thoughts, you might find the one of it best too. Explore yourself. Your comments and suggestions welcome. Thanks.

My visit to Pondichery

I will say, this place is excellent. Everytime I go here I get refreshed visiting the Mother's ashram, Manakula Vinayagar Temple and the book shops and tourist sites here. You can find a cheaper place than Pondy to get a relaxation.
Its still the place for many French speaking people and they are much much respected.


I spent 2 hours in Mahabalipuram, aka Mamallapuram which on the way to Pondy from Chennai .. a lovely place, better to visit this in the evenings. This fort in Mahabalipuram is the epitome. Any movie or album saying Mamallapuram will have this fort. The colours came out beautiful.


The roads in pondy are damn good that you can never ever compare to Bangalore or any other metros. The beauty is you dont need to struggle in Pondy as in other places. For instance, keep moving towards East and you will end up in Beach, no one ways, deadends. Most of the roads are straight and beautiful. Especially the area around Aurobindo Ashram is much cleaner that you will find easy to walk bare foot.

Students doing Palming exercise inside the School for Perfect Eyesight

The famous "School for perfect Eyesight is a part of Auribindo ashram. Personally too my Eyesight has comedown from 1.5 to .5 and has become stable over the years I had been practising eye exercises which i learned from here back 6 years. Frankly i no more exercise consitently, but the sight has become constant. I have captured the excerpts from the "Better eyesight without glasses" - Dr.Bates Method which is posted in the Aurobindo Eye School. Please give a read, itwvery helpful and do pass it on to others. You have to take the free progam in this Eye School at least for a week continuously. Many people dont have time to really visit and take eye exercises.
Am giving a very abstract picture of Eye Exercies. Please REMEMBER the exercises can vary according to one's eye problem. Am just giving the exercise which i followed. (I could read books without problem, but had problem otherwise)
1. Sun Treatment
2. Eye Wash
3. Palming
4. Fine Print
5. Game of Ball vertical
6. Game of Ball Horizontal
7. Bar Swinging
8. Snell's Chart
9. Vapour
10. Cold Pack
Probably when I get some time off from work i would give detailed explanations on each and, or link to external sites.

Below are some excerpts from R.S.Agarwal's eye sight book and Dr.Bates Method.









There is a spritual book shop in the adjacent street to Ashram, VAK. An excellent bookshop where you can find all kinds of Spiritual, Mind, Body books. There are a range of Yoga books to select from. If you are to Pondy do make a visit to this bookshop. You can find Adyar Ananda Bavan Restaurant (good quality as of today!)opposite to VAK.



Auroville: Its a beautiful place to visit and is a part of Ashram. You can take a shuttle paying Rs.60/- per head for sightseeing Auroville and MahaPrathyangaradevi temple.





MahaPrathyangaradevi

A beautiful, massively tall idol, which symbolises power and strength.


Manakulavinayagar Temple is an ancient and powerful Ganesha Temple. A must see for toursits. During New Year people come from various states to worship here and take a Ganesha pictured Daily Calendar.

And some tips to visit Pondy in less time. Its a nice place to shop and there are plenty of places in and around Pondy and there are Crocodile Park, Boating Spot and much more on the way to Chennai, the scenic ECR toll road.

1. Keep luggages light weight and as simple as possible. If possible one bag. (read my previous blog entry which features Travelling Light Weight - http://7times7.blogspot.com/2007/01/art-of-traveling-lightweight.html)
2. You can rent a bike, or cycle or car. There are lot of shops on Mission Street near Ashram which rent Bikes for cheap. (Bikes from Rs.100 to Rs.200 per day and Cycles for Rs.15). Night roaming in Pondy is fun fun fun, then hire a cycle :-)
>Krishna Two Wheeler Rent
106, Mission Stret, Pondy-1 cell: 94437 68740
> Gopi Two Wheeler Rent (Propreiter:Gopi.B)
Sri Manonmani Amman Cycle Store.
106, Mission Stret, Pondy-1 cell: 98941 72244

Real place of meditation

TOILET !!!

Speed Reading

As suggested by many people, speed reading along with good comprehension and vocabulary skills is sure to distinguish from the excellent readers from the mediocre.
I know many who complete reading big volume books in a week or less. Am a poor reader, it takes a month or more to complete a single interesting book. There are many books I buy before I even think if I got (read “make” :-) time to read them.

This site is an excellent resource for Speed Reading. http://pianoer.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/speed-reading-techniques/

I understand that the problem I read slow is mainly due to sub-vocalising. (reading in the mind) and difficulty in comprehension (enough is not enough).

I give the whole article from the site as a mind map.

Social Networking for Books - Shelfari

Not a great idea! Social Networking has been an important ingredient of Web2.0, and everyone is cashing on it. Everyone wants to have a finger on the pie.
Shelfari http://www.shelfari.com from Amazon is a Social Networking Site for Books. One good feature is, you can generate code from Shelfari and copy paste into your blog to display the list of your Books.
I had registered mine, hope to place the code onto my blog as I get time.

Online Diary

Want an online diary - Try http://www.my-diary.org. I registered and posted my first Journal entry yesterday.
There are no big star features, just basics. And the look and feel needs a lot of improvement.

The Art of Traveling Lightweight

I love traveling, (of course, Travel & Living is my favorite Channel). But every time I travel I lug a lot of stuffs into my bag, and finally end up carrying 3 bags. Somehow I feel am lugging only the minimum but never it halted to one bag.
There are a lot of advantages of going up with a single bag.

1. You have the freedom to travel as you wish.
2. If it’s a backpack then both your hands are free, allowing you to do lot of maneuver.
3. Security is much great. You don’t have to toil down not sleeping to keep an eye on all the bags. Just put it below foot or use it as a headrest.

There are many more too.

On my R&D to avoid lugging more baggage, I searched over and found really wonderful sites which are dedicated to travel.

http://travelindependent.info/ is a wonderful site which gives a lot of info like “what to pack http://travelindependent.info/whattopack.htm” , “where to go”, “before you go http://travelindependent.info/b4yougo.htm” and many more tips.

http://www.onebag.com/ speaks on “The Art and Science of Travel light”, is also a wonderful site. The pros of traveling with single bag are manifold as I had said before. A list of things to carry is on this page http://www.onebag.com/list.html. You can download http://www.onebag.com/popups/what2pack.pdf
a pdf file to save it to your PC/MAC/ print out it to check at your convenience.
http://www.onebag.com/popups/what2pack.pdf

Want to know on budget travel
http://www.fabuloustravel.com/tips/tips.html
http://www.fabuloustravel.com/tips/cheapeats.html
http://www.fabuloustravel.com/tips/frugalsiteseeing.html

Sixteen wealths

Am roughly with my bad english transilating "pathinaru selvangal" as "16 wealths" .. in Tamilnadu when any person is blessing, he/she would bless saying "pathinarum petru peru vazvu vazga" . roughly translating to "live a great life with possession of all 16 wealths" !

Abirami Thudhi


I had long time wondered what are those 16 types of wealth. Asked few old people, but what they said was "yellarum solluvanga appadiye nangalum sollaroam" .. "ie., everyone is saying like that so we too do the same..(but dont know what)"
We went on a Temple tour and at Tirunallur, there is a Appar Kovil, where these 16 types are wealth are described as a poem, and reciting it as a Mantra will bless us with those wealth. The poem is sung by Appar, one of the great poets of Tamil and is dedicated for Abirami.
I just snapped it. Its really worth knowing the wealth, since we think money and assets are the only wealth, our ancesstors are very brilliant that they know money is not the only wealth, but its one of the wealth among the 16 types. Perhaps we forgot and forget it !
Just translating it -
1. Education
2. Age
3. Friendship
4. Prosperity
5. Youth
6. Physique
7. Mind
8. Wife
9. Patience / Perseverance
10.Popularity
11.Truthness
12.charitableness
13.Fund
14.Management
15.Life
16.Love

Golden Code for Healthy Living - G.R.Sarwate

Meeting new People every now and then is itself a invigorating experience .. I like meeting people, sharing their experiences. Its something like a reading a biography, even if he/she is not a celebrity, others life has lot to say and lot to learn !
And I got this habit from my father .. He travels through out India - mostly to southern parts of India for his engineering work ..
He was on a trip to Vishakapatnam (Vizag) .. there he met his fellow engineer, who took him to his home and introduced to his family.
Most interesting was his fellow engineer's father G.R.Sarwate, who was around 90 years of age, still walking with out stick, thin and healthy.
My father had a brief chat with Mr.Sarwate .. He said his interesting hobby was reading (as many lone old people) and he has written a book called "Golden Code for Healthy Living", out of his experiences he faced in his health as a child and the awareness to his surroundings. The interesting flip of the book, he said, he has written how to select a child's gender even before birth and prepare for the outcome of healthy (as liked) offsprings.
He thrusted a 15 page booklet into my father's hands and said it has all information about it. He didn't accept any monetary for the book, and he added his mission was to make people aware of their body health, prevent diseases and select and give this world, healthy peaceloving offsprings. At age 90 he has a mission in his life, a goal, something which he thought 'value add' to this world. Such people are great.

Summary of his book-
No summary, please read the book its just 15 pages, already summarized ! :-)

For the convenience of people on the net i ve, scanned the book and uploaded to a public site(box.net). It has no copyrights, no strings, just simple and straightforward. Please use it free. Download here.

And one more thing, when i wanted to upload the files to a publicly accesiable location, box.net was helpful. Its free upto 1GB, has a nice UI, fast (really). I would like to say thanks to the box.net team. THANKS !

Kicking causes most severe injury

Do you know that .. the most powerful weapon is with in you .. yes your legs .. says Kicking causes most severe injury than any sharp instruments ...

Art of Living (AOL) - Introductory Class

.. so i went for the Introductory Class of AOL. It was supposed to start at 6:30 .. i was there at 6:10. 6:30 passed but only 2 grandmothers and 2 grandfathers .. and me .. my friend pushed me "mmm .. you have brought me to such a place where only oldies come ... and will it start or not its already 6:35".
We were given registration forms to fill up. I did.
Then at 6:40 3 youngsters came.. the course conductor sat in a wooden chair covered with white cloth .. at the background was the photo of Sri Sri garlanded .. pleasant smell of agarbathis .. large hall .. tiles over ..
He introduced and asked "do you know anything about AOL ? .. what is art of living ? .. can we really master it ?". Couple of them were answering his questions ..
He then said about 7 traits of humans .. ego, physique, intellect, .. (i dont rem'r).. then explained what is prana .. he was mostly saying "prana is the one which says we are alive .. thats the difference b/w the living and the dead.."
We were asked to meditate for 15 minutes .. it was a guided meditation .. with he saying .. "take a deep breath .. become aware of your body, surroundings, your mind, the noise .. ". When we opened our eyes slowly .. wow amazing .. we could see some 30-35 people and few more were entering into the hall .. it was almost 7:15 ! For the one who didn't know .. they were punctual by "Indian Standard Time" but the instructor started it early ;-)
We were shown the videos of Sri Sri's travel across 137 countries .. (thats pretty amazing..) and the people's experience of Sudharshan Kriya ..
Atlast we were said "The course is 40 hours totally split across four days(Tu to Fr 6:30-9:30am or pm) and little longer on weekends(sat 7-11:30 am Sun 9-1 and post lunch to ashram) and the 'donation' for the course is 1000 rupees."
Personally i feel (and after lot of comments :-) its worth taking it up atleast for testing the authenticity of Sudharshan Kriya .. then with our own head come to a belief its good or not. Simply accepting as others say .. we should not be and even am not that way .. try it .. test it .. recommend it .. as "word of mouth" is always the best.. Sudharshan Kriya has already spread through word of mouth. I hope I take it up and benefit. About the instructor, to be frank, he was not the best that i can take up him as a Guru and learn from him. I expect more of a old knowleadgeable master to teach me than pretty dressed polished guy. I would try definitely sometime but hopefully with a master that I like.

For those who need the addr of AOL @ Bangalore: Ashram/Office (080) 2244 0102, 2244 0103.
Admin (seems) Mr.Ravi 98862 88891. Contact person for Jeevan Beema Nagar AOL Centre- Ms. Manasa or Ms.Meghana - 98450 91292.

All the best wishes on your journey into your inner self. Remember God is in you !