Mr. Kicha

Today I made a point to complete the hilarious novel "Mr. Kicha" written by Crazy Mohan in the 1990's. I came with a forward from Sujatha, "If this doesnot make you to laugh, then you can only be characterized by a 3 letter word in your previous janma". I am wondering what that 3 letter word could be. The immediate word that came to my mind was musudu. Still I am figuring out what it is. Ok leave it, about the book, it is about the adventures of an Ara-loosu and his muzhu-loosu paati of Triplicane. The book must have been good at that point, but since my expectation from Crazy at this point of time is more, the book written by him decade ago somewhat didnot actually tickle my sense of humour to the extent I expected. But as a whole it is very good short book comprised of some 16 short stories about Mr. Kicha. But most of them are self-proclaimed buruda from Kicha himself like playing in WorldCup Cricket, piloting a flight etc. But still Crazy makes the flow to be very humerous. Especially I liked his Cricket and piloting adventures. His paati can be compared to todays' Paravai muniamma. The book is nominally priced, Rs 50, by Kizhakku Pathippagam

What a Race!

Today was the first time that I happened to see the F1 race almost completely. Todays F1 was in Melbourne. As this was the first time and I donot have any favourite racer on my mind, the result didnot matter for me. But the course of the action was too good. I was amazed at the speed at which they race on, the concepts and strategies of pit-stops, the time taken at pit-stops(roughly about 9 seconds) for fuel, changing tyres etc., There were dramatic sequences all through that 1 and half hour starting from Schumacher's crash agaist the wall, leading-Webber out of the race in the middle, then, a similar crash by Montoyo and the most dramatic of all - Button out of the race, just 50 meters to reach the chequered flag. Really really a cinematic race today. The F1 courtesy by Rajesh.