Summary on Seminar

Just attended a seminar at the Atlantis, Conference Hall. For a change, the registration formaility was done away with. Since the attendance was by invitation only, cards for invitees were ready to be picked up from the alphabetical arrangement. The delegates had good time in searching their tags and absolutely thrilled when they traced their cards!

Although, the seminar started 10 minutes behind the schedule, like an aircraft, it picked up speed during the journey and finished in time!

The gathering was very impressive, so much so that if some one goes out to attend the call of nature,well, by that I mean attending a call on handset, somebody else would come and occupy his place! It happened to my guest who had to settle at the backside row when he came back after attending his call.

The seminar was on a topic called 'STRATA MANAGEMENT' which is about the recent introduction of Strata Law in UAE. Strata law is concerned with Realty sector and its purpose is to manage, regulate, control and govern various aspects of property related issues including transfer of property besides defining the rights and responsibilities of various stake holders.

The seminar was organised by Oman Insurance Company. Speakers were from companies that are into Strata management, valuation, Law firms specialising in Strata and, not but not the least, from the insurance industry. Of course, the aim was to finally drive the point to the audience about the importance of availing a special insurance cover developed for the Property Owners Association.

The seminar ended with a luncheon at the Ballroom. A scottish couple from Australia, who were part of the delegates, shared the same table with me. Ms M quipped, if the Strata law was clear to me after attending the seminar. I sort of mumbled to the effect that 'everything was absolutely clear'! The conversation continued by recollecting some valid questions raised by the audience during the Q & A session, and then moved on to recent cricket matches between India & Australia, in which, for a change, India white-washed Australia.

We exchanged contact details promising to be in touch. I told Mrs M about my weekly contribution to short take and urged her to read one, if she can and give her comments. This piece is dedicated to the serendipitious friendship of scottish couple.

The question Mrs M asked me is still bothering me into thinking if I have this problem of attention deficiency? I then comfort myself by reasoning out that mere attending seminars would never give detailed insight, but only kindle your inquisitive mind into making further probe on the subject.

Well, to summarise, seminars do desseminate information!

COMMONWEALTH GAMES

Once I had to drop a guest, at the Mumbai Aerodrome, who had to catch a flight to Tiruvanathapuram. We left home sufficiently early with two hours gap.
For the flight scheduled to leave at 1130hrs, we left home at 0930hrs with only 30 minutes drive to make on normal traffic conditions.

I was driving the car happily chit-chatting on various topics. I even recited my own 'haiku' that I drafted on Mumbai! Suddenly we realised the journey to Airport was unending due to the traffic jam. The road was dug up in the middle for some work and the vehicles were at loggerheads.

Our joyful conversation suddenly became not so joyful before it turned to silence and anxiety. We reached the Aerodrome with only twenty minutes for the takeof!

The ticketing Supervisor bluntly told that 'we are shut out for any more passengers and the flight is ready to takeof'. No amount of pleading was working until we heard that the flight already left Mumbai Airport.

Now the guest started enquiring about the next flight in Indian which was available only in the next day! I suggested that we will go to the other terminal to find out Jet or other Private airline before claiming refund from Indian. That is when we found out there was a Private Airline flight in the evening to Tiruvanathapuram.

Now I said we will go and get the refund from Indian. When we approached the counter, the supervisor came towards us running and announced those sweet words,"the flight returned due to some technical snag.. and she will leave again at 1:30 pm!"

That was just after marriage. We were catching a train in the night having left home just 30 minutes prior to the departure. Whilst on our way, my wife remembered to have left the wedding ring on the mantle over wash basin! Racing against the time, we reached the platform after recovering the ring from home. The train barely pulled out of platform when we hurriedly boarded the train!

It so happened again in Mumbai, sensing that our taxi cannot reach the CST station to catch our Chennai train, we decided to board at Dadar station, which is 10 km nearer en route. Due to the unprecedented traffic bottleneck, we had to jump on to the already moving train when we reached the platform!

Recently last year, we landed at the Mumbai Airport just 25 minutes before departure of the flight. Obviously, the counter was closed. A daring supervisor took a quick decision to grant us upgraded business class status to us, relenting to my request! There, I think, the lady luck helped too.

All these events have made us to think that there is no great need to waste time at railway stations or at Airports!

I started to write this when received an sms from my wife yesterday ..that she has done it again!
Yes; she boarded the flight in similar finish like Commonwealth games!

All is well that ends well! Let the good luck continue for ever.

Well readers, shall we rename the word 'brinkmanship' to Commonwealth Games!

Punning Pundits!

Any language can be interesting if it is learnt with interest.

The word pun itself means the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning. To put it simply,the word pun means a play on words!

Once a veteran leader from South,not known for his mastery over English, was interviewed by American Journalists. One of them wanted to test his English speaking skills. He asked the leader, if he can use continuously the word 'because' three times to form a meaningful sentence.

Pat came the reply from the leader, "no sentence can end in the word 'because'because 'because' is a conjunction"!

That leader from South is none other than Dr. Anna Durai, who was Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and a great leader of Indian politics.


Here are some punctuals!(actually pun words!)

Always we find poor people are employed in a bakery; for they are Kneady!

The kitchen sink was cloggy so I changed it for smooth flow, but in the process, money also went down the drain!

The recent floods world over made me believe that no one has complete reign over rain!

The picture below the headline does not give full picture of the story!

The lawyer did not accept the brief as he feared a brief amount in return!

In childhood everyone is puny; but as one ages, they become punny!

Of late,it has become fashionable to use lot of word play popularly known as 'punch' dialogues! If you are in the habit of watching movies, you would observe that the dialogue delivery is made interesting by the use of pun(ch) words.

You can have fun in life but not funny life! Life can be full of problems but life itself should not be a problem!

One speaker,during introduction, apologetically said that 'I lack grammar so please don't expect my English to be grammarous!' Some one from the audience remarked, " but you don't lack glamour so we hope it will be glamorous!"

It is not that Pun with words can be spun by only those who are word pundits! A little bit of practice would enable anyone to liberally punctuate speeches with pun words!

Come on punning pundits, lets now open a pundora box!

You have ear for (bad) music?

There are several occasions in which one can become a victim of bad music. Visiting my blog would be one such thing! Yes. Having bored enough with all my rantings, I thought I would spare you all from reading lengthy blogs! But if you have to gain some, you have to lose some! I roughed it out with an attempt to sing an old song... I hope to improve with some practice.. but not before creating a list of several victims in listeners like you!

Yes; previous Humor club program on 17th september witnessed a long awaited performance(?) from pretending singer, subu! Mr Guna the master of ceremonies, yielded to my pressure into giving a slot for my music (mis)adventure. He announced with all hyperboles and 'build-up' that a new generation "PBS" was waiting to enthrall the audience.

I went on to the stage and made all caveats and preludes to the effect that although I am good at singing another "AM Raja Song", since that track was not available, I would be singing this one from the feature film, "Pava mannippu".. and, even if the rendition did not turnout good, the audience still could generously (bestow their 'Paava mannippu') pardon me!

Now the pendrive I brought with the track music refused to open. I had to later on sing the other AM Raja song..."paatu padava" without background music. I give the link to my rendition of 'pava mannippu' for those who have ear for music!

Copy paste this address link in your browser and click 'download' and wait for 45 seconds to listen to the music!
http://www.zshare.net/download/81079182662d01e8/

Post Script:- Mr Suresh, the president of the Humor Club told me in no uncertain term that the platform is not for people like me who are trying to take the audience for a ride!

I think this would be the end of my play back singer dreams!