The Legendary Icons of the 80s

Yesterday, THR Raga morning crew picked up my all time favorite topic, CARTOONS. I am a cartoon freak. Cartoon is part of my life. Unlike nowadays, growing in the 80s, there were hardly any kids or teenage sitcom nor real actor or actress. Hence, my icon has always been hand drawn and painted with crayon/pencil/chalks. I was so crazy about cartoons, their characters and their peppy catch phrases like Fred Flinstones’ "Yabba-Dabba-Doo", Speedy Gonzales’ "Ándale! Ándale! Arriba! Arriba", Bugs Bunny’s “What up Doc!”, Road Runner’s “Beep! Beep!” and etc, i would wake up as early as 8 a.m. to watch them on TV 2 and later on fight for 5.30 p.m show on TV3 that views in line with TV 2's Tamil news. Sigh! My obsession for cartoons was so bizarre, my uncle nick named me Cartoon Girl. Hence, i grew up labeling myself as TV addict till one fine day upon discussion with my friends, i soon realised almost everyone grew up in the 80s did the same thing.

Among my all time favorite cartoons were the Flintstones, Jetsons, My Little Pony and Friends, Yogi Bear and Friends, Care Bears, Jems, Dungeon and Dragon, Thundercats, Voltron, Transformers, Smurfs, Garfield, Heathcliff, Pink Panther, Inspector Gadget , Archie, Denise the Menace, Snoopy and Charlie Brown, Tom and Jerry, Felix, Mighty Mouse, Danger Mouse, Super Granny, Looney Tunes (Bungs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tasmania, Tweety Bird, Road Runner, Sylvester, Speedy Gonzales), Disney (Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Pluto and Chip & Dale) , He man, Scooby Doo and etc.

However, i still have my favorites .....

How about you guys?

10 ways to celebrate birthday

1. Have close buddies bring surprise birthday cake at midnight

Hmm..yum..yumm...yummy Cholocate cake

2. Have another birthday party in the evening

3. Have custome made vegetarian gooey choclocate cake and ma's food

Yummy-yummy yum yum

4. Invite celebrity to birthday party

Presenting Miss Sneha Presenting Miss Paris Hilton with DD

5. Invite friends to Birthday party

6. Invite kids to birthday party, :)

7. Have guessing games..

"I spy with my big brown eyes, who's little boy is that?"

This one ...

This one..

This one may be...

Or this?

8. Have seafood the next day with family at Telok Gong..

First Course ...Soup of the day..

For the vegetarians...kai lan

Mix vege

For the meat eaters:

Sizlling Japanesse taufoo with prawns and eggs...

Black pepper crab

More crab Asam Fish

Fried rice and Butter prawn....Ops! Forgot to take picture.... it all went into the stomach

9. Cut more cholocate cake

10. Wrap up with blessing from tata (grandpa)

Yippie its Friday!

Day started out a little annoying but upon reaching my office, as looked at my mail, i came across this particular funny email that has totally lost my enthusiasm to work today....


Thus, i am already looking forward for today's lunch which requires serious shopping, after work for serious workout at gym and delightfull weekend with my grandparents and cousins family for seafood dinner at Carey's Island.....SEEEAAFOOOOD? Yah, seafood for them and kailan for me....:(...i am only the banker.....if only they could agree for vegetarian seafood? Sigh!

PENSIL!

Have you heard of the movie Pensil? No..the spelling is all right. No mistake in it. Pensil is a locally produced Tamil drama that was aired on ASTRO channel 74 last Saturday at about 2.00 pm. The story highlights on a young physically challenged boy named Kuppu, who lives with his abusive unemployed drunkard father that forces him to sell papaya to buy food and (samsu) alcohol. His two closes friends are an unmarried neighbor lady and an old blind lady in the village. Kuppu's only passion is to draw, hence saves money to buy lots and lots of pencils without his fathers’ knowledge. However, one day his father finds out about it, furiously beat him and throws his pencils away.

Disaster after disaster occurs but Kuppu’s life went on as usual till one fine day, the same drunkard man that recklessly drove and knocked Kuppu's mother to death, knocked him aswell. When Kuppu finally find out the truth about his mothers death, he made his decision to leave the village with absolutely nothing but his pencils that was buried underground to pursue his passion for drawing.

I am usually not fond of local movies and it takes a miracle for me to actually say, “Wow! The movie is great!”. Nevertheless, Pensil was simply superb, solute to the director, the lead actor as well as their crew. The director presented the story so real so touching and so sad while the actor acted it so genuinely. There was simply no essence of acting at all …everything seems so real. I cried and cried and cried even more towards the end specially when Kuppu digs out his buried treasure…. not money..not gold but his dear pensil.