Tales of the Unexpected, anyone?

Dear Walrus,
Please, don't be serious... I also do not want any serous discussions (I am the one of the few guys who refused to attend the grand new year party given by my company).

This is just casual posting...becuase I have long holidays, nothing else to do except sitting at home alone....

When you refereed that in other threed, skeptcis didn't believe, I thought I can ask "Can you believe this?" thats all... Please don't think I am making any kind of challange here (in this thread..)!!! I will not make any arguement in this thread. I will be just a listener here...


Let me give more details about the reincarnation documentary aired in Discovery channel.

In that documentary, a reincarnation case about Thusitha, a girl from Sri lanka was reported in detail. This girl, born in 1981, described at about the age of three, how she had lived in a place called Kataragama (at a distance of 230 km from her village) where she drowned in a river. She stated that her father was a flower vendor and that one of her brothers could not speak. In Kataragama, the researchers Ian.Stevenson and Samararatne (1988) found a family of flower vendors that had a son that could not speak and a daughter that had drowned in a river in 1974. Of the 30 statements that Thusitha had made, only two turned out to be wrong, and three unverifiable. In other words, all the other 25 statements were right. The two families in question had never met at all and had never heard of each other. Dr. Ian Stevenson, who did the verification for discovery channel, is a former head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, and presently Director of the Division of Personality Studies at the University of Virginia.

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Originally Posted by r_kk

Netrikan thirapinum kutram kutrame...

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rkk just curious to know what is the meaning of the above quote. Thanks!. SONU GOPI :roll:

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Sonu,
“Netrikan thirapinum….” Meaning… (it seems you haven’t seen the movie Thiru vilai adal)
This statement was made by a Sangam period tamil poet Nakiran when he made an argument on a subject, in which he contradicts with God. The god got angry with the irritating statements made by Nakiran and decided to burn him with the fire from his third eye. When the God opens his third eye, Nakiran understood the opponent is God but still he argue and say that you can be God, you can burn me with the fire but at this moment also I say that you are wrong. I also have similar questions and want to argue with God even if God burns me with fire… Don’t ask him whether I believe of not… but I am very much inspired with the Nakiran’s courage.

Sonu Gopi,
I am a bit surprised you have not seen the movie. Among my dozens of keralite friends, most of them were aware of the movie because in olden times parts of kerala especially the travancore area was part of tamil nadu so my friend's dads stayed in tamil nadu and didnt miss a single tamil film(esp with kerala payyan MGR on fire, in stark contrast to the lifeless Prem Nazir across the border :))

Thiruvilayadal is a 1965 movie and was a super hit. Our moderator NOV used to go great guns over it in the tfmpage threads last decade :) It had everything a winning movie could ask for - AP Nagarajan in direction, KV Mahadevan for music, SP Balu/Balamuralikrishna for songs, Kannadasan for lyrics, cast of Sivaji Ganesan, Balaiya, Muthuraman, Devika, Nagesh, Savithri, Sundarambal.

Sivaji played Sivan's role fantastically, it was a class act and an unforgettable one. He had played both Sivan and Dharumi earlier when the movie was a stage play. The stirring dialogue that r_kk mentions is a big hit and memorised by children growing up in TN, when I was a school kid in late 80s, one of my classmates went to the front of the class and recited the entire dialogue word by word - thats shows the popularity of this 1965 movie!

Nagesh's comedy was funny and enjoyable - this was the first tamil movie i saw :)

The dialogue was available as an mp3 download but recently was removed from coolgoose unfortunately :(

Here is a spoof review on thiruvilayadal :) :)
http://www.lolluexpress.com/thiruv.htm

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Originally Posted by hehehewalrus

Thiruvilayadal is a 1965 movie and was a super hit. Our moderator NOV used to go great guns over it in the tfmpage threads last decade :) It had everything a winning movie could ask for - AP Nagarajan in direction, KV Mahadevan for music, SP Balu/Balamuralikrishna for songs, Kannadasan for lyrics, cast of Sivaji Ganesan, Balaiya, Muthuraman, Devika, Nagesh, Savithri, Sundarambal.

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Pls tell me the name of your previous avatar. You seem to know my history!

2ndly SPB in Thiruvilaiyaadal?
No! Never!

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I think I need to re-acquaint myself with that movie with my kids in tow this time!! :D I still remember Sivaji's Sivan helping out a poor poet played by Nagesh! Gosh, that was a classic scene Pa!!

Thought I'd share here : In my English class with the Tamil school kids, I had to wrack my brains to explain the meaning of a tree and log to them in Tamil. None came to mind except these lyrics which amused and enlightenend them!!

Ahem, correct me if I'm wrong People!! :

Parthaal Passu Maram
Paddethe-vittal Nedu Maram
(forgot)........ veruvukku ahem maa...
Nyana thangame.......

Just hope Nov, that they could take a leaf out of your experience and use lyrics of songs in Tamil discussion. I'm sure it'll be a hit, Pa!! (in Tamil schools and POL classes).

Though not necessarily with todays songs Niro. Check this one out from the movie New ....

coming in the style of the world and a new
shining like diamond pearl and a new
walking in a new kinda sound and a new
in a town and everybody get down and a new
ini varum one o'clock two o'clock new
pudhiyathu iniyathu enakkini oli varsham thaan

one two three, ada you are free
buck up idhu padhmasri
one two three tigonometry

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or this one from manmadhan....

manmadhan wanna wanna be a wanna man
manmadhan tell me tell do you understand
manmadhan everybody want to know
manmadhan man man manmadhan
manmadhan to be it in love
manmadhan cant be going around

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maybe this is what is actually needed in our Tamil schools. :D

Thanks for helping out Nov! So much English in these songs??? Got to check them out!! :)

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Pls tell me the name of your previous avatar. You seem to know my history!

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Nov, I wasnt even aware of internet during your tfmpage-enlightening spree. Became an archive moottapoochi and silent spectator later :)

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2ndly SPB in Thiruvilaiyaadal?
No! Never!

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sorry - confused the 1965 movie with SPB's debut song(1965) :(

When my husband was attached to a plantation in Perak Malaysia, we encountered a number of weird happenings. These are some of them:-

The manager's bungalow that my husband occupied is about 80 years old, right from the British era. It is a double storey part wooden and part brick house - very big and very tall. The bungalow sits on a one acre land. Surrounding it of course is the plantation (palm oil).

Before my husband was transfered to that plantation, for about 10 years the other managers who had occupied were all bachelors - and none of them had ever used the upstairs portion of the bungalow. When my husband started staying there he got the helper to clean the whole house. The sitting room upstairs is surrounded by long windows and is very airy. My husband cleaned it bare (took away all the furnitures) and made this place his meditation area. The rest of the rooms he just cleaned up.

At that point of time I was working away at another city and only returned to the bungalow during weekends.

At first everything was ok. Then the disturbances started. First the daily cleaner complained that when she is cleaning the upstairs portion, she could hear the front or the kitchen door being opened. But when she comes down to investigate, the doors are indeed open but no one is there. Then, when she is cleaning downstairs, she could hear noises upstairs, noises made like when ppl are moving around the house. She didn't think much of it but it started to become worse. The final straw was when she could hear loud (really loud) sounds of children playing and running upstairs. After that incident she asked to be transfered to the plantation & refused to work at the bungalow!

The thing is nobody else experienced these so at that time we thought the helper just made up the stories, though I myself felt that there could be a slight truth in the helper's complaints.

All was fine until we told my mum-in-law (whose family pray to Ayya - Muneeswarar) about it and she being a very pious woman arranged for an altar with Ayya's photo to be put in the house (My husband was not really into prayers etc).

Then it started. You see the place where my mum-in-law put the altar was exactly at the corner facing the foot of the staircase going up.

First the noises started. The bungalow is quite far away from anywhere else, the nearest neighbours are the plantation clerks and their houses too were about 200 metres away, so the place especially at night is so quiet that even if you drop a pin, you can hear it.

My husband didn't bother the sounds. He continued to meditate upstairs. When I come back during the weekends, I used to have the feeling that someone is staring at me from upstairs through the corner of the staircase railing. When I look up suddenly, I could see just the slightest of shadow moving away from staircase.

And once when I was bathing (the master bedroom and its attached bathroom is downstairs) I suddenly had goosebumps and then I saw something very tall & dark (I am short sighted and was not wearing my glasses at that time) at the doorway (which I normally don't close fully) staring at me, a couple of seconds later it went away from the bathroom door . I thought it was my husband back from work. I called out but he didn't reply. When I came out of the bathroom, I looked for him but he was nowhere. Then I realised that it was not him whom I saw!

After that I just stayed put in the downstairs living room with the front door open till my husband returned home. He told me not to bother and just pray or recite some mantras. I was quite scared after that incident. It never happened again.

After that every now & then from the corner of my eyes I could see something scurrying down and up the staircase especially at dusk when I am at the sitting room alone watching tv. One thing I noted it never went down completely - probably because of the altar?!

Although we were both not really disturbed much, almost all our guests refused to stay overnight in the bungalow - they never told us the reason but we figured it must have stemmed from the bungalow's other 'occupants' !

However one particular incident which happened about 2 months before my husband resigned from his job till to day has never failed to give us the creeps.

One night after travelling from Penang, hubby and his friend reached the bungalow at about 11 pm (I was away). His friend stays not very far away but since it was already late, he agreed to put up the night in the bungalow.

My husband arranged for him to sleep at our bedroom downstairs (since he didn't dare to allow him to sleep upstair lest he gets disturbed!). Hubby then watched tv until about 1 am and then fell asleep in the sofa.

At about 6 am, hubby woke up and went to wake up his friend - he was missing! And the bed did not show signs that anyone had actually slept in it! . Hubby searched the whole of downstairs & after failing to find the friend started upstairs ........ there at the landing of the staircase, his friend lay unconsciuous his legs on the staircase and the upper body on the landing !

Hubby was by taht time very scared - he tried to wake his friend. THank God! his friend woke up albeit drowsily. He complained he was very very tired. Hubby then helped him to stand up & held him & slowly started to go downstairs. At that time he noticed the marks of a hand with all the five fingers across his friend's back as though someone had slapped the back very hard.

He didn't mention anything to his friend & pretended as though nothing had happened. His friend went to sleep.

At about 10 am when the friend woke up, my husband asked him why he was sleeping upstairs - his friend with surprised look said "It was you who woke me up at night & brought me upstairs to sleep, don't you remember!?"

Till now we do not know what actually happened but we were very glad that nothing untoward had happened to us while staying there.

Boy!! That is sca.....ry Pa!! To make matters worse, I happen to live in a similar type of bungalow too!! It too is abt 80 years old, and we do use the two bedrooms upstairs and the hall!!!! In Perak, too!!!!

You're giving me the creeps Shakti!!!! I've sent you a private message, please reply Pa!! I'm on tenterhooks here!!! :roll:

hi nirosha maam
check the carpet on the third step of the staircase...look underneath it - there would be a picture of a skull
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