First things first - I loved it !

Anthony Horowitz does not let you feel, even for a second that Arthur Conan Doyle is dead. His narration is taut. Uses the same archaic words and builds on the aura of Sherlock Holmes as "dramatized" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The story runs into plots and subplots and sub-subplots. It has its own loopholes here and there, but these are acceptable. What I loved about this novel was the fact that the author somehow found his way to bring in Professor Moriarty.

I will not delve more into the story. Come on, A Sherlock Holmes Story with all its plots - is not something you give away. Read it and enjoy it for yourself. However WikiPedia seems to play spoilsport here by posting the entire story online.

The House of Silk is just as thrilling as the House of Lac. (If you read mythology, you'd get it).

A fantastic piece of fiction writing - Don't miss it !

Just finished reading an insanely awful piece of shit by Sudhish Kamath. Here is the link.

To sum it up - He put Aranya Kandam in the tenth spot and Mankatha at second spot.
I would have forgiven even this part - if only he had not done the unthinkable.

He rated Velayutham as the Number one movie of the Year - WTF ???!!!!
When all the reviewers in the country have trashed the movie left, right and centre and even the "Vaayal Vadai Sudum Vijay Fans" page on Facebook is getting awesome troll content for the movie - How is Velayutham the number one movie ?

Even that would have been forgiven - but this -

"Dhanush showed us why he's becoming one of the country's finest actors with a gloriously restrained performance"

is Blasphemy.

I would love to do a "This is Blasphemy" a la 300 and push Sudhish Kamath into a pit where he is forced to watch Thulluvatho Ilamai,Sullan, Dreams, Puthukottailirunthu Saravanan and Vengai (just to name a few) for the rest of his lifetime. Seriously WTF ??!!!

I assume Sudhish Kamath had Feviquik on his seat when he went to watch Velayutham, worse, were his palms greased ?
In this age and day, Paid Reviews are not uncommon. But at what cost ?
Pity that we are still putting up with this Shit !!!
Enna Kodumai Sir Ithu ?
Seriously, how else could you explain that Nadunisi Naaigal or Poraali or Deiva Thirumagal or Azhagarsaamiyin Kuthirai missed out on one of the spots.

I am now tempted to believe that Sudhish Kamath tried to do a Anand Ramachandran and failed miserably.




Note : For the uninitiated Anand Ramachandran writes on Cricket at Cricinfo. His posts are laced with sarcasm and are hilariously funny and punny. (oops)

My sincere thanks to IT Folks and College Students for partying heavily on 31st evening (i.e Yesterday)

I had the most awesome darshan at Chilkur Balaji Temple yesterday.
In fact, I was in the sanctum Sanctorum for almost 2 minutes - which is literally an eon - when compared with the fact that the crowds to this temple are swelling in number. And The Sone pe suhaaga part was that even the Pradakshina crowd was pretty thin - Enough space and plenty of time to do my pradakshinas - Peacefully.

Thank You IT Folks and College Students - If it wasn't for you guys partying so hard on 31st night, forgetting your visas and onsite trips and all that extra money that you guys would be making - I would not have gotten this opportunity - Thanks a lot once again !!!

Another thing that came to my notice is that - there is a hush-hush story about writing your details on the temple wall. I was told by a person in authority that if you write anything on the temple wall, other than the lord's name - then it was highly likely that your visa might be cancelled, and you might be asked by the lord to come again and again.

So, unless you wish to get your visas rejected multiple time - Please do not deface the Temple Walls. Saami Kanna Kuthidum.