<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-708446406569022898</id><updated>2011-11-27T16:23:35.905-08:00</updated><category term='chennai rain'/><category term='rain'/><category term='Madurai'/><category term='rain helpline'/><category term='thundershowers'/><category term='Surya'/><category term='dowri'/><category term='Privacy'/><category term='Jothika'/><category term='Kamalhaasan'/><category term='Mukururni vinayagar'/><category term='habaalumdowri'/><category term='Mukoorni'/><category term='Guna'/><category term='habaal'/><title type='text'>glimpses of my colorful life...</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/708446406569022898/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Hemapriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00509870162327465302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-708446406569022898.post-2571478679840810677</id><published>2007-11-21T22:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-23T03:48:42.120-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kamalhaasan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guna'/><title type='text'>சத்தியம் பெருசா? சங்கிலி பெருசா?</title><content type='html'>(Which is mighter? a honest word or a strong metal chain)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... a very touching dialogue from the movie, Guna!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/708446406569022898-2571478679840810677?l=maduraigirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/feeds/2571478679840810677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=708446406569022898&amp;postID=2571478679840810677' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/708446406569022898/posts/default/2571478679840810677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/708446406569022898/posts/default/2571478679840810677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/2007/11/which-is-mighter-honest-word-or-strong.html' title='சத்தியம் பெருசா? சங்கிலி பெருசா?'/><author><name>Hemapriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00509870162327465302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-708446406569022898.post-4415784414520113087</id><published>2007-11-20T22:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T09:50:24.734-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='habaalumdowri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thundershowers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='habaal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dowri'/><title type='text'>Habaalumdowri woke me up today!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ttKdmbZVLY0/R0Qd7hA5_PI/AAAAAAAAALQ/eMJ40K2-3cs/s1600-h/thundershowers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135262383420865778" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ttKdmbZVLY0/R0Qd7hA5_PI/AAAAAAAAALQ/eMJ40K2-3cs/s320/thundershowers.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Wonder who is habaalumdowri???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thts a great story... she is very furious, unkind, hates cry babies, cannot be defeated even by great warriors...ok.. i think build-up is enough!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tis actually a imaginary character created to frighten the children who refuse to eat. In my mother toungue,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Habaal - glass&lt;br /&gt;Dowri - old woman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ttKdmbZVLY0/R0Qd7hA5_PI/AAAAAAAAALQ/eMJ40K2-3cs/s1600-h/thundershowers.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Habalum dowri, literally means, old woman made of glass...  elders frighten kids saying her teeth is very shining.. according to this mythology, thundershowers are her smiles... (Sorry no pictorial representations.. you jus develop her image mentally....) the droplets that come out her bathtub is the rain... and today i woke up disturbed by a mild thunder.. thanks Habaalumdowri for waking me up :) you know its not a easy task... :P&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next time you see a rain/ thundershower, pray Habaalumdowri that it should not hurt you as i did when i was a kid... and yeah, i admit, even now i do it.. at times&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/708446406569022898-4415784414520113087?l=maduraigirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/feeds/4415784414520113087/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=708446406569022898&amp;postID=4415784414520113087' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/708446406569022898/posts/default/4415784414520113087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/708446406569022898/posts/default/4415784414520113087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/2007/11/habaalumdowri-woke-me-up-today.html' title='Habaalumdowri woke me up today!!!'/><author><name>Hemapriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00509870162327465302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ttKdmbZVLY0/R0Qd7hA5_PI/AAAAAAAAALQ/eMJ40K2-3cs/s72-c/thundershowers.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-708446406569022898.post-6421942547974593550</id><published>2007-11-19T04:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T09:50:24.960-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chennai rain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rain helpline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rain'/><title type='text'>மழை மழை.... @ Chennai</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ttKdmbZVLY0/R0GLIRA5_NI/AAAAAAAAAK4/tfHGDdNWZjA/s1600-h/onarainyday.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134538024301493458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ttKdmbZVLY0/R0GLIRA5_NI/AAAAAAAAAK4/tfHGDdNWZjA/s320/onarainyday.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;most beautifull thing happening at chennai :) Tis drizzling/ raining/ cloudy round the clock... What a pleasant sight to watch it over a cup of hot tea in the early morning... I jus want to go, get drenched in the rain...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I've always had this feeling about rain... &lt;em&gt;Rain has a special quality ~ if you are sad the rain can double your sadness; if you are happy it can triple it up!!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Listening to all rain related songs...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;மழை வருது மழை வருது குடை கொண்டுவா...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;रिम झिम रिम झिम, रूम झुम् रूम झुम्...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;काले काले मेघा पानी तू बरसा&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;..and hey, you are at chennai, tis worth to add these numbers to your mobile contact list... these are Rain Helpline numbers...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;04425381330&lt;br /&gt;04425384670&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/708446406569022898-6421942547974593550?l=maduraigirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/feeds/6421942547974593550/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=708446406569022898&amp;postID=6421942547974593550' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/708446406569022898/posts/default/6421942547974593550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/708446406569022898/posts/default/6421942547974593550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/2007/11/chennai.html' title='மழை மழை.... @ Chennai'/><author><name>Hemapriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00509870162327465302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ttKdmbZVLY0/R0GLIRA5_NI/AAAAAAAAAK4/tfHGDdNWZjA/s72-c/onarainyday.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-708446406569022898.post-7540489364045629184</id><published>2006-09-26T02:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-26T07:06:24.074-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Surya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jothika'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Privacy'/><title type='text'>ஜோதிகா தமிழ் கத்துக்கோமா...ஷிவகுமார் அட்வைஸ்!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/5554/86480274239382/1600/images.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/5554/86480274239382/320/images.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is the Hot 'n' latest news seen in the kiosk of a leading tamil mag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all this while Surya-Jothika love chemistry was selling like hot cake. Now though, they got married... what next..??? People are still curious to know whats going around them...? There is some limitation to poke into someone's privacy... may it be a normal individual or a celebrity...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it the people who are curious encourage mags to publish such things or is it the mag that spoilt ppl giving such stories...? either way it is, this looked a bit too much a thing to give an conversation from a f-i-l to his d-i-l...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இது இப்படியே போனா, you can soon expect things like...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ஜோதிகா சுடு தண்ணியிலெ குளி மா, ஜலதோஷம் வந்துடும்&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ஜோதிகா சமைக்க கத்துகோமா&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/708446406569022898-7540489364045629184?l=maduraigirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/feeds/7540489364045629184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=708446406569022898&amp;postID=7540489364045629184' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/708446406569022898/posts/default/7540489364045629184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/708446406569022898/posts/default/7540489364045629184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/2006/09/blog-post_26.html' title='ஜோதிகா தமிழ் கத்துக்கோமா...ஷிவகுமார் அட்வைஸ்!'/><author><name>Hemapriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00509870162327465302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-708446406569022898.post-1542055755605052269</id><published>2006-09-22T02:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T01:43:40.164-07:00</updated><title type='text'>சின்னஞ்சிரு பெண் போலே...</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;u&gt;பல்லவி&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;சின்னஞ்சிரு பெண் போலே சிற்றாடை உடை உடுத்தி ஷிவகங்கை குளத்தருகே ஷ்ரீ துர்கை சிரித்திருப்பாள்&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;u&gt;அனுபல்லவி&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;பெண் அவளின் கண் அழகை பேசி முடியாது பேரழகுக்கீடாக வேரொன்ரும் கிடையாது&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;u&gt;சரணம்&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;மின்னலை போல் மேனி அன்னை ஷிவகாமி&lt;br /&gt;இன்பமெல்லாம் தருவாள் எண்ணம் எல்லாம் உரைவாள்&lt;br /&gt;பின்னல் ஜடை போட்டு பிச்சிப்பூ சூடிடுவாள்&lt;br /&gt;பித்தனக்கு இணையாக நர்தனம் ஆடிடுவாள்&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Favorite song of mine... physically, I have never been to the temple which is mentioned in this song... but from the way it is sung, &lt;a href="http://www.sirkali.org/"&gt;Isaimani&lt;/a&gt; takes me to the place whenever i listen to this...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;some songs can provoke nostalgic thoughts while some other take you a trip to the world of dreams... But, this song makes me visualize each aspect of the temple... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can visualize a small statue of Durga... that chitraadai (her costume), that kulam near the temple... the beauty in her eyes... her plait... pichipoo worn in the plait...and ultimately her playing the thaandavam with lord shiva... great delivery by the great legend... i feel blessed when i listen to this :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Over to the song now...you can listen it &lt;a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/sirkali/chinnan.ram"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/708446406569022898-1542055755605052269?l=maduraigirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1542055755605052269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=708446406569022898&amp;postID=1542055755605052269' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/708446406569022898/posts/default/1542055755605052269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/708446406569022898/posts/default/1542055755605052269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/2006/09/blog-post.html' title='சின்னஞ்சிரு பெண் போலே...'/><author><name>Hemapriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00509870162327465302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-708446406569022898.post-6402764593198199108</id><published>2006-09-20T02:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T03:07:08.467-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Madurai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mukururni vinayagar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mukoorni'/><title type='text'>Mudal vanakkam engal mudalvanukke</title><content type='html'>All these days, i was a voracious blog reader... hereafter, planning to become a voracious blogger too... Just to do a good writing exercise...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/5554/86480274239382/1600/Mukoorni-Sandal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/5554/86480274239382/320/Mukoorni-Sandal.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So...பிள்ளையார் சுழி போட்டு துவங்கியாச்சு... இனிமே தினமும் எழுதி எப்படியாவது எழுத்தறிவை வள்ர்துக்கணும்.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/708446406569022898-6402764593198199108?l=maduraigirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/feeds/6402764593198199108/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=708446406569022898&amp;postID=6402764593198199108' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/708446406569022898/posts/default/6402764593198199108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/708446406569022898/posts/default/6402764593198199108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maduraigirl.blogspot.com/2006/09/mudal-vanakkam-engal-mudalvanukke.html' title='Mudal vanakkam engal mudalvanukke'/><author><name>Hemapriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00509870162327465302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
