Thursday, July 28, 2005

ஆனந்தம் ஆனந்தம்

I learnt to blog in Tamil today, hence this post.

Thanks to Narayanan for floating around a poetry contest and reviving my Kavidhai skills.

Thanks to Prabhu for giving me a pointer to "How to blog in Tamil"

I wrote this poem during my engineering days and it brings back fond memories of my time in SVCE. Needless to say, you may sing these lines to the tune of "Pachai Kiligal Tholodu" from Indian.

தந்தானானே தானானே ஆனந்தமே.........

பேனா பென்சில் கையோடு,
பாடப்புத்தகம் மடியோடு,
அம்மம்மா College என்றால் தொல்லை,
என் எண்ணத்தில் பாடம் மட்டும் இல்லை.

Engineering புத்தகத்தில் என்ன இருக்கு,
அட Mittal, Mathur, Millman எல்லாம்
அய்யோ சுத்த கிறுக்கு.

பட்டாம்பூச்சி கூட்டத்திற்க்கு பாடம் எதற்கு,
அட பாடித்திரியும் பறவைக்கிங்கே
பரிட்சையெல்லாம் என்னத்துக்கு.

பேனா பென்சில்...

தூக்கம் வந்தால் ஆனந்தம்,
கணவை தந்தால் ஆனந்தம்
ஈக்கள் மொய்த்து தூக்கம் கெட்டால்
இல்லை ஆனந்தம்.

Breakum Lunchum ஆனந்தம்,
கடைசி benchum ஆனந்தம்,
பாதி வகுப்பில் நழுவிச்செல்வது,
இன்னும் ஆனந்தம்.

தேர்வே ஓர் ஆனந்தம்,
தோல்வி பேர் ஆனந்தம்,
Arrearsல் குடியேரி
அதில் வாழ்வது ஆனந்தம் ஆனந்தம்.

பேனா பென்சில்...


Update : Just put the thanglish version on comments for the benefit of people who are not able to read the font.
Ashish : Point noted. Click here for a literal translation.

28 Comments:

Blogger lakshmi said...

Its been a long time i heard that song and forgot the tune too, so hard to read your poem more than 1 stanza.But quite interesting till that.

1:28 AM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger sophie said...

hey i want english translation...i can see just lines...

and one more thing
carpediem Ravi, Hadron Hari, unplugged praveen, magix n curses Harish, Ferrari Prabu, adrenalin rush chikuado n me...plan ot meet on saturday evening mebbe at 6 at leroyal meridian or mebbe Sagar...Ravi is making necessary arrangement.....wish to join???call Ravi for details...at 9840131451...will be happy if u join us

10:04 AM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Nithya Swaminathan said...

you from SVCE?? which yr, branch? me too from SVCE..:) havent yet read ur post, will comment later..

10:39 AM, July 29, 2005  
Anonymous JVC said...

haha ! mittal, mathur- nice quotes Somu.

11:36 AM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Nithya Swaminathan said...

ROTFL @ ur Kavidhai!! You from ECE/EEE? ellam ore andha booksa irukku??

11:44 AM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Somu said...

Hi,

Just writing the poem in thanglish for the benefit of those who are not able to read the fonts / can't read tamil.

Pena Pencil kaiyodu,
Paadapputhagam madiyodu,
Ammamaa college yendraal thollai,
En ennathil paadam mattum illai.

Engineering puthagathil enna irrukku,
Ada Mittal, Mathur, Millman yelaam,
Aiyo sutha kirukku.

Pataampuchi kootathirkku paadam yetharkku,
Ada paadithiriyum paravaikingey,
Paritchai yelaam ennathukku.

Thookam vanthaal aanandham,
Kanavai thanthaal aanandham,
Eekkal moithu thookam kettaal,
Illai aanandham.

Breakum Lunchum aanandham,
Kadaisi benchum aanandham,
Paadhi vaguppil nazhuvichelvathu,
Innum aanandham.

Thervey oraanandham,
Tholvi peraanandham,
Arrearsil kudiyeri,
Adhil vaazhvathu aanandham aanandham.

11:48 AM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Somu said...

Lakshmi,
I can understand. The song is pretty old by now. Infact even I had to somehow find my old poetry notebook to pen down these lines yet again :o)

Sophia,
Wow ! It would be a wonderful oppurtunity to meet up with people. I shall get in touch with Ravi and take an update from him.

Thanks for the invite.

And the english version is up on your request

11:50 AM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Somu said...

Nithya,
Am from the 99 CSE batch, how about you ? Its been close to 6 years now and I have completely lost track of SVCE and SVCEans. Coincidentally, the night before the post was when I got back in touch with few of my friends from coll. So, in a way posting this poem was symbollic.

JVC
I don't know which one of them wrote Electron Devices... But an arrear in that subject always made me hate them ;o)

Those are my favourite lines too :o)

11:56 AM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger @$#!$# said...

dude, t think it would have been better if you would post the meaning, rather than simply writing tamil in english...

does no good for "T"illiterates like me :-)

12:52 PM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Somu said...

Ashish,
The translation is put up just for u dude !!! :o) Sorry I did not think of it before !! Just click here

1:13 PM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Gangadhar said...

Good one,Somu!!
And I always sit in the last bench during my engineering days..And there was a door beside last bench..Whenever I found the class boring..i used to get out very easily...

1:52 PM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Nithya Swaminathan said...

Ok, u too from CSE..:) I am from 2001 CSE..:) Good old SVCE!! so many memories... college bus, canteen.. cha! i miss all that:(

and well, I hate all these blogger meets happening when I am not around in chennai!!!X-(

2:05 PM, July 29, 2005  
Anonymous silverine said...

Thanks for dropping by my blog.Am presently reading some of your posts. Will drop by more often :)

Cheerio

3:35 PM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger dfg said...

Hi
Although i could not read the post as it appeared with small boxes, bcos i dont have a tamil font...anyway uu got the kavithai in tnaglish in ur comments section...nice one man....
BTW let me know how can i write in tamil in blog.....chears...

keep it coming
Prakash

4:59 PM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Adaengappa !! said...

Good one Somu !!

To read posts in Tamil:
Go to View>Encoding>Unicode (UTF-8)

Hope this helps !!

7:34 PM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Somu said...

Silverine,
Thanks a lot and you are most welcome. I really appreciate your time.

Prabhu,
Thank you very much. I thought fonts need to be downloaded for viewing posts in Tamil. You made it sound so simple. Maybe I should put that as a note everytime I write one in Tamil :o)

9:54 PM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger sophie said...

hey gr8 so..u joining us tomorow

9:58 PM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Somu said...

Prakash,
This is what I did :

1. Downloaded an English to Tamil convertor s/w from here.

Thanks to Shyam for the info.

2. The software is pretty easy to use. If you wanna write தமிழ், just type Tamizh. And the instructions are pretty simple too.

3. Once you have your Tamil stuff written, just right click, copy and paste it on your blog post / comment. It just works like a miracle.

Hope this helps.

9:59 PM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Somu said...

Sophia,
Yep. Spoke to Ravi sometime in the AN. Am told the venue is yet to be confirmed though it's gonna be somewhere close to Guindy. I would touchbase with him again tomo to the finer details. So, that pretty much summarises... I am joining you tomo :o)

10:00 PM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Somu said...

Nithya,
Oh 2001 batch... Maybe I might have indulged in ragging ya at some point in time or the other... What say ?

Now don't start off the SVCE thing as I could consume just about every possible space available. The Bus journey is what is still a memorable thing... Canteen (Thair saadham and saambaar saadham), Muthukarrupan, Interrupt (did they still call it that when u were in final year)... hmmm Those were the days !

10:04 PM, July 29, 2005  
Blogger Vinesh said...

Came here from ur comments on my blog reg the super-coincidence (You and I blogged same day abt Ovvoru Pookkalume song)...

Loved the spoof of Pachai Kiligal...great stuff man :-)
English translation is funnier LOL!!

1:55 AM, July 30, 2005  
Blogger Ram.C said...

nice attempt in tamil, somu..

continue your efforts.

10:22 AM, August 01, 2005  
Blogger @$#!$# said...

gee..thanx dude

12:32 PM, August 01, 2005  
Blogger Madhu said...

ohhh somu... that's sooo cute! I really enjoyed it.. :)

3:37 AM, October 05, 2005  
Blogger Deepa said...

Hi.. i am just learing how to blog in Thamizh.After reading though your post and the comments I downloaded
Baraha 7
BarahaIME 1.0 fromr baraha.com
I am still not able to figure out how to use this..
Can you please guide me
Thank you
Deepa
http://horizonwitinus.blogspot.com

1:53 PM, September 14, 2006  
Blogger Deepa said...

i got some idea abt posting in thamizh.. when i post
திரைப்படம் :- ஆசை

பாடல்: புல்வெளி புல்வெளி தன்னில்
குரள்: சித்ரா, உண்ணி க்ருஶ்ணன்
வரிகள்: வைரமுத்து

the characters are all messed up..
love.. aasai..puulveli.. etc..can u help me correct this

4:04 PM, September 14, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

திரைப்படம் :- ஆசை

பாடல்: புல்வெளி புல்வெளி தன்னில்
குரல்: சித்ரா, உ.கிருஷ்ணன்
வரிகள்: வைரமுத்து

2:33 PM, May 29, 2007  
Anonymous thamizhvalarthen said...

hi!

the blog article was actually good
but i acually wondered y u downloaded softwares and needed to put some fight to post in tamil,

i recently came across this tool by oneof my friends
its about quillpad
http://quillpad.in/tamil

it will help you in typing in tamil
by convering to native script from english
hope you will have fun doing it!!!!

1:01 PM, June 19, 2007  

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