My Name is Karthik (MNIK)

Hello everybody, my name is Karthik. I am the preferred character to portray the romantic protagonist in most Tamil movies. The slow paced mushy movies preferably directed by Mani Ratnam, Gautam Menon etc.

I was played by a variety of actors; the most notable of them are Mohan, Karthik, Madhavan and Surya. In all movies I am 23 to 27 years old but may be portrayed by an older actor. I don’t work as mostly I have a rich dad. Even if my dad is poor I don’t go for work. I usually spend time smoking, ogling, boozing with friends. My dad hates me and always says that he couldn’t believe how he could have a son like me. 

I have a brother who is just like my dad, successful and boring. My mom loves me a lot and gives me all my pocket-money. I may have a young sister sometimes, who is very supportive. My brother's wife is like a mother to me. All my nephew/nieces love me a lot.

I am very cute and definitely not manly. I represent the metro sexual. I don’t like to have a mustache but I don’t shave clean either. With great effort I maintain the 4-days-since-shaved look.  I always wear contemporary clothing. I own a bike, which  I treat like a friend. It helps me a lot in love. All the girls would just fall for me, but I will fall for only one girl even if she is uglier than many of her friends.

I have a few close friends (Charlie, Vivek, Santhanam) who help me out in all troubles. They are more scared of m dad than I am. In spite of that, they help me out in my love endeavors. I fall in love at first sight mostly with a girl whose family status is not up to my father’s expectations. Almost every time, the girl initially hates me then falls for me head over heels in spite of the fact that i'm jobless.


The biggest challenge in my life is to convince the parents and marry the girl i love. This is more challenging than getting a job and settling down, but somehow the parents get convinced if I get a job. 

I dance to only romantic numbers in foreign locations. The dabbanguthu, ghana never suits me. I rarely fight with bad guys, may be once or twice in the movie, mostly to either impress or protect the girl i love. The girl gets impressed even if i lose the fight, provided my mouth bleeds and she has a duppata to wipe it off.

Whatever i do i win in love and get a job and hug the heroine in the climax.

What if Superman was a software engineer??????

I don know why I can’t stop writing about superman. I was thinking ( I dunno why…)  how super man would look like if he was working in a software company. Later, I even started thinking about what advantages he gets being a superman. Lot of things, silly and good came up to my mind immediately. I was pretty much sure that he would suffer the same fate all of us suffers.. No one can escape the things software does to us.. Here are some..

Looks:

• Superman will lose all his sleek looks and will develop a paunch.
• He will have no time to shave or sometimes even to take a shower.
• He will develop dark circles after countless sleepless nights he spent time on….. not fighting crime but fixing bugs.
• He will look like he badly needs a workout.
• He will have a sleepy look in his eyes
• He may even have signs of premature balding.

Costume:

• He wears a shirt coz he gotta obey his organization’s dress code.
• He always wears his ID-Card coz it is more powerful than all his super-powers.;-)
• He carries a laptop to attend support calls when he is out saving the world.
• His costume is now highly elastic to accommodate his daily developing belly.

Others:

• He can avoid all the early morning traffic as he can just fly to office.
• His salary structure does not have any conveyance allowance as his mode of transport does not need any allowance.
• His performance report will say, ‘Too much time spent on saving the world and not commitment to organizational goals’.
• He cannot go up the organizational ladder as he always stands by the truth.
• Once he comes into the office, he removes his cape and hangs it on his chair.. (I’ve seen lot of people do this.. jacket instead of cape)
• All the female employees and some male employees fear his x-ray vision. :-P
• He can’t give his office crush a ride home coz he doesn’t own a ride.

Guess i pretty much covered everything.. The sketch was done in a hurry so did some post-processing to make it look better(???!!), hope i din go overboard. 

Thanks for sitting through another of my posts. 

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I love the game which involves 22 people and a (smaller) ball.

   The FFIA world cup is underway. The teams are ready for the title clash. Euro champions Spain against a very impressive Dutch. This promises to be one of the most memorable finals, but what am I doing??? I’m following a little known T20 series against Pakistan and Australia in which Australia got royally humiliated 2-0. [No… It’s not 2 goals against none.. Pakistan won 2 matches and Aussies none.]. This is how much I love the stupid cricket game.

   I’m proud to be a cricket fan, an Indian and a cricket fan. Many people may deny but the truth is, ‘Cricket is in our blood’. It is game each and every one of us can connect with. Im sure cricket would be the first game anyone would ve stated following. No one would ve even remotely heard about ‘La Liga’, when they started cheering for every run Sachin scored. ‘World cup’ always means the ‘ICC world cup’ to us. Though the tag ‘premier league’ belongs to football, for most of us the first ‘league’ that comes into our mind is the 3 year old Indian Premier League (IPL).

   The reason for all this is, this is the only sport our countrymen play with consistent respectability. I don’t mean they play well but only with consistent respectability. It is always intuitive to support ‘Dhoni’s and ‘Sehwag’s rather than the irrelevant ‘Messi’s and ‘Rooney’s. It makes more sense to support RCB or CSK rather the alien MU or Chelsea.

  

   The sport itself is no shy of entertainment and excitement, the T20 just made it better. I enjoy every aspect of it. The way Dravid leans into his late-cut, the authority Pieterson shows during his ‘switch-hit’, the way Akthar made the whole stadium look at the bowler rather the batsman are few of the game’s x-factor. Add Sachin’s genius, Kallis’s all-round ability, Dhoni’s tactical nous, you get a game which serves the masala-film loving Indian public very well.

   Still there are few people who live in denial. They say cricket sucks as it is slow and boring. They are just people who don’t see the amount of work put into the game. Just watch the 2007 T20 World cup final between India and Pakistan, you will understand. 

 Be a cricket fan, and be proud of it. If you like foot ball better, no problem just don's say cricket is a boring game.