Thoughts, ramblings, rantings of Renganathan Ramamoorthy
October 13, 2006 21 Comments
One of the most comfortable places to sit and read, at least for me – is the loo! I can just sit on the pot and give complete concentration to what I am reading. I usually even manage to solve complex solutions inside the place…
Anybody else have one of those places, where u are completely at peace with urself?? 
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September 28, 2006 9 Comments
Have seen this so many times, but it still never tires me this one…
September 5, 2006 32 Comments
So, finally I had come to terms with the fact that Germany is a cool place. The loneliness factor was decreasing, some quality work getting finished, and BOOM, life decides to call the bluff on itself – the magic that was becoming Germany!
Today was just another day. I woke up late in the morning, after a long serious night and much coaxing and cajoling from my better half, I somehow managed to get ready to office. No premoniton or idea that hell had other plans for me!
I came back from work got down @ the station and then went out to the cycle parking lot and removed my keys to only find that well the cycle wasn’t there in its place! The shocking thing was that the place seemed like a mess.
The first thing I checked was if I came to the Bahnhof in my cycle, and realised that I did remember biking to the station. And parking at the place, where I was standing, but the cycle wasn’t there. I moved around the place, hoping in my mind that somebody had just moved it and that I will find it safe, with its Winnie the Pooh, character – the tiger horn! But, *sniff sniff* some @$$hole has decided to steal the bike *Wail*!!
Anyhoo, I called up my landlord immediately and told her that the cycle is missing and that I had locked it in the morning and I didnt know what to do. She asked me to find the Railways Lost and Found! Well, lucky as I am, i ran outta calling charge on my cellphone as well. And there begins a rush to the nearest T-Punkt to try and get a recharge card.
I was asked to wait a whole 15 minutes until
- A chinese lady was told about 15 times that the DSL connection will take at least 7 days and that she needed to be @ her house on Friday from 1500-1700 hrs so that the DSL people could come and check the stupid line!! Grrr….
- An old dada was told the DSL rates about 10 times.
- One T-mobile customer service representative was busy typing stuff into his computer after telling me, “Uno momente” and another one left the building directing me to the guy still furiously typing away into his kiosk!
And after that, I managed to call her back and we discussed that she can arrange another cycle for me tomorrow and she’s also showing some
cheaper apartments to me over @ the place from where she’s giving me the cycle from. The options are 100Euros cheaper for an apartment with
NO telephone or Internet connectivity, and 50 Euros cheaper for an apartment which has telephone n internet connectivity.
Anyhoo, the DSL modem looks like a distant dream as of now. Let’s just hope that i get it soon.
Apart from that, work is hectic. Have an internal milestone this Wednesday and I am coding away to glory in office. 
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I will have 2 reimburse the landlord for the cycle. I am saving only about 15 Euros per month, with da cycle, apart from freedom to roam
around, but I will have to reimburse her with about 150Euros – the cost of a decent second hand bicycle!! Grrr…
Overall, IOW, a bad day!! !!
P.S. This post is dedicated in loving memory of the bicycle that served me well for the past 4 weeks. I miss u baby!! It was wonderful being with you, and wherever you are, I hope you are happy!
September 1, 2006 4 Comments
Why is it that come Friday, and your ability to work dips to an all time low. And with every passing Friday, you break your own record of the amount of work done that day!! !! Is it just me or is this the global phenomenon?
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August 22, 2006 20 Comments
Well, if it isn’t but a ruddy old typhoon that must have brought the bunch of leaves as if held by a tornado, or a typhoon, up somewhere in the tropics as they say that I decided to read Wodehouse again late last night, when I must have been getting my eight hours of shut eye. However, as if fate and destiny decided to play with my mind, as they seldom do that I did! Ever since, I have had this indescribable feeling of getting up and writing something on to my blog, or web log or whatever name that your mind might think of.
And here I am trying to quench just that indescribable feeling, unquenchable thirst and the likes! Anyhoo, having to get back to normal, here are some observations, well make that one observation!
The way these English greet each other – “What Ho!” seems quite a take aback for the sane minded, American contemporary English minded people like me [some may call it perverted] but just tell it to yourselves, “What Ho!”? I mean… it’s hilarious! U find a good looking gal on the street and you go “What Ho” I mean, she might take a punch at you, exercise her palms, use her gym built skills, so to speak! !
So, trying to get outta this mindset, was randomly wandering out through the blogosphere [well being too lazy to read everything in sight, I just moved through my blogroll, but who really cares about what I was doing anyway], I kinda ventured again to a blog I recently came across. It’s a juni’s of mine from college. I mean she’s in the 1st year, so it’s like a quasi juni allrite. So, what I wanted to say was, Hmmm, quite interesting. Passing on whatever I can to raise a toast for her fast populating blog – Musings, Memories, Mutters…! Quite an impressive style of writing, I must say!!
Kudos and all ze best.
Btw, something I have been pondering for quite some time. I’ve read quite a few blogs now, and always find that the fairer sex is kinda making quite a progress as far as their writing skills are concerned, including humor. I mean, guys are funny, blatantly funny. However, creativity really takes the form of girls who blog!!
Anyhoo a toast to them, virtual, as I am outta alcohol!! !!
August 17, 2006 10 Comments
Here is a video that I found in google video!! Man, this guy’s hilarious!! I spent the last night laughing my @$$ off. This guy is the funniest stand up comedian I’ve seen in my life!! Download and laugh man!!
Russel Peters 1
Russel Peters 2
Just awesome man!!
August 13, 2006 21 Comments
Kickasso tagged me after a push from my side, as I am absolutely bored on a Sunday morning, having nothing planned for the day other than washing my clothes and ironing the previously washed clothes. IOW, sheer boredom awaits me at the beginning/end of a week! Consequently, I decided to fill in the tag and spend some time. Btw, it’s very very easy to hack into a wireless network and gain access to Internet. That’s how I am online rite now. I don’t think they can charge me or anything anyway, so who bothers !1. Were you named after anyone?Yes and No!Yup = Grandpa’s name [concatenate with space] Dad’s name [It's the tradition in my family to name the first born son after the paternal grandfather and the 2nd son after the maternal grandfather and same goes for the female gender as well. Anyhoo, dunno the complexity after that. ]Ravi = Renganatha Iyer + Vishwanatha Iyer [1st 2 letters of the paternal and maternal grandfather]Pangu = Nopes, Gautam christened me Guru Panguji = My own creation !2. Do you wish on stars?Hmmm, how many people have actually been on stars? And managed to wish for something from there? Reading too much apart, never wished on stars 
!3. When did you last cry?Well, as in felt sad and shed unconsciously a few of the cleansers? Well it’s gotta be July 16, 2006, when I left to Germany after I got one of the most memorable farewells in my life. The love was too powerful !!4. Do you like your handwriting?I love it!! Not to blow my own trumpet [Not that i can even with a real trumpet], I am supposed to have an amazing handwriting !5. What is your favourite meat?A vegetarian for life !!6. What is your most embarrassing CD on your shelf?Doubt if I have one of those here !! But, at home, it was Spice Girls !!7. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you?Hell yeah!! How can someone not be friends with such a friendly, interesting, smart, talkative guy as me ! It’s hard to ignore me when I am on the face of most of ze people I know !8. Are you a daredevil ?Depends on my mood really. I never used 2 be one. But then, college and friends there kinda changed my perspective. Since then, have never been really afraid or thoughful of trying out something !9. How do you release anger?Heavy Metal Song if I am home, with probably a puff, else it’s swear, scream, try n bash the other guy up [HAS TO BE A GUY, can't harm ze ladies physically], even if he’s twice my size, and then have your friends ask you to calm down!! IOW, pretty much let it out !! However, these days it’s more like Have a chocolate and count to 10! Who am I kidding? Unless I count backwards from 100, my mind is gonna be too engrossed with the task @ hand of whooping some ass.10. Where is your second home?Flat #1, Site # 111/5, Rajappa Buildings, Opp Govt School, Taverekere, Bangalore – 560 029, India. Actually that’s my favorite home 
!11. Do you trust others easily?Yup!! VERY VERY EASILY!!12. What was your favourite toy(s) as a child?Gooooooooo Joe!! N my roller skates, altho I rarely skated outside the house. Then it was test tubes and hot wheels, and then electrical motors. All either were lost or taken apart. The habit still lingers. Btw, still am a child and the latest in line is an FSC Amilo Pi 1556 laptop !13. What class in school/college do you think is totally useless?School – None. it was quite a healthy balance. I used to love school, save for 11th and 12th, which were HORRIBLE !! College – pretty much the whole thing !14. Do you use sarcasm a lot?O yeaaaaaahhhhhh…. *wink wink* Well, I try to… and most of the times, I end up failing miserably… [See rite here rite now]15. Have you ever been in a mosh pit?The closest I have been is for the Orange Street and Moksha playing @ IIT Saarang ’05!! It was awesome… The pushing, the swears, the trampling other person to get your space. Next time tho, I wanna sing and watch the damn mosh pit !16. What do you look for in a girl?Well, I used to have a lotta heuristics if you will, but then they pretty much went to the docks, when I met my special someone, who’s so damn awesome !! But, essentially, a lovely smile, lovely eyes, a sense of humor and the ability to bear me yak yak yak!! !17. Would you bungee jump?Oh yes!! Just waiting for a chance, and sad that Gautam and Fart beat me to it 
!!18. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?My right shoes are untied always, and my left is just ripped apart from my feet !19.What is your favourite ice cream?It used to be and generally is Dark chocolate, with chocolate syrup and chocolate bits and chocolate wafers. But, these days I am trying out various stuff and eagerly waiting to try out a combo or strawberry and banana flavor! At office, btw, I tried a Buonissino, which is a blueberry and spanish delight variant. Pretty impressive !20. What are your favourite colours?Blue, black, white, Grey, Silver.21. What are your least favourite things?Unfriendly people. People who possess a condescending attitude on others. People who just can’t appreciate the things that are wonderful for them. Well, there are some more.22. How many people do you have a crush on right now?Well, one!!23. Who do you miss most right now?Harini [miss u like crazy baby], Mum, Ro, Appa, Thatha, Ammamma, Sid, Harsh, Gautam, Arijit, Basanti, Raji, Osho, Uma, Vedz, Lee, Aunty, Fart, Arjun, Baba, Ajja, Mota, Sai Mai!! IOW, the whole jing bang in Bangalore and TVM !! Miss ‘em like crazy!!24. What are you listening to right now?Astronomy – by Blue Oyster Cult!I prefer the Metallica version tho!! 25. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?Silver – I always used to be fascinated by how it feels if you would be silver color in the crayons. Btw, it was one of the latest additions to the crayons boxes, when I used to use crayons. Damn, I feel like using and painting a drawing using a crayon now !!26. What is the weather like right now?Sunny, with the temperature around 10-15*C. It’s B E A UTIFUL! Damn, I have to finish this off fast and go for a ride.27. Last person you talked to on the phone?Ms. Imperfect28. The “first” thing you notice about the opposite sex?Face!29. Do you like the person who sent you this?Kickasso? Gonna kick his ass someday !! He’s cool tho !30. How are you today?Awesome. Having woken up @ 9:16am after 2 Beck’s the previous nite, and realising that the wireless connection is still on and that I am able to log in!! Pretty awesome !!31. Favourite non alcoholic drink?Coffee… I swear by the java!!32. Favourite alcoholic drink?BBBBBBBeeeeeuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrr *hic*33. Natural hair colour?Black.34. Eye colour?Dark brown35. Wear contacts?Yup, when I wanna wear my shades, else swear by my pince nez.36. Siblings?Yup.. One – an adorable to be doc. She’s gorgeous!! *Hugs to Ro*!! *Warning to guys coming near her: Ya have to go through this protective [at times over] brother*!!!37. Favourite month?September – People who matter to me were born in this month!!38.Favourite food?Anything South Indian rite now. Coz sick of continental dishes and north indian food, the only things available in Germany!! !! Rite now a Pongal, or Upma or Idli Sambar would be more than welcome !39. Favourite day of the year?May 22nd.40. Have you ever been too shy to ask someone out?Well, yeah!! Duh, every guy has to have been shy at least once !! Btw, only once, after that decided never to be and well, really happy about that decision *wink wink*41. Scary movies or happy endings?Happy endings, any day!! Btw, aren’t these sorta unrelated. Usually scary movies also have “happy endings” for either the good or evil!! ! I think this was a trick question !!42. Summer or winter?Well, neither extreme. I like Bangalore weather !43. Holi or Diwali?Diwali… New clothes paid for by someone else, crackers, sweets, and no colors, but no Bhang. Damn, I am caught b/w the two now. Actually love any festival. I get excited pretty fast by these things !!44. Do you like your name?Love it. Official, personal and nick. It’s fun when people try pronouncing it and can’t do it well.45. What book/magazine are you reading?The Incredulity of Father Brown – by G K Chesterton46. What’s on your mouse pad?No mouse pad !!47. What did you watch on TV last night?Don’t watch TV, as I am sick of having my own mental translations of what I think is going on in German in the limited 8 channels with 4 repeats, wait that makes it 4 channels that I get !48. Favourite Smell ?A perfume that someone uses… *wink*!! Other than that, the earth just after it’s rained and petrol !! And yeah tobacco burning at one end !49. Have you ever regretted breaking up with someone?Nopes, have never broken up with someone!! !!50. Most tiresome thing you’ve ever experienced/done?Sabarimala trip. it was the most refreshing as well at the end!Btw, check out your comments for your last blog post, if I have tagged you!! !
July 31, 2006 19 Comments
*Email forward and absolutely hilarious!!
Here are ten pointers to people who are using orkut !
ONE
If you’re ugly, stop acting like you don’t know it. The captions under you picture that says “top model pose”, “sexy bitch”, “arnt i hot” doesn’t convince anyone.TWO
To the people who have like 25,000 friends, are you serious? Nobody in this universe can keep up with that many friends. You’re stupid. Go play in traffic.THREE
Don’t ever post pictures and say “OMG, I’m so ugly”, “OMG,I’m so fat”, because if you were, you wouldn’t post them.FOUR
Nobody cares about threats over the internet. Don’t try to act hardcore with the keyboard. Fighting online is like racing in the special olympics; even if you win, you’re still retarded.
[Hahaha now that was really funny]!!FIVE
Making 20 bulletins a day about how you hate other people b/c yoUR not on their top 8. who really cares, i mean get over it!SIX
Who really gives a crap if I don’t accept you as a friend? MOVE ON!!! Don’t send me another request or message asking “what’s up with you not adding me?” I don’t want you as a friend; that’s what’s up!SEVEN
Little 12 year olds who have Orkut and look like sluts, go somewhere else because nobody wants you here.EIGHT
If you have decided to read this, you are a true Orkut Friend. Real friends read their bulletins.NINE
I say you go and pass this on and maybe it will finally get through people’s brainsTEN
And if you open a bulletin and it says something like “repost this in 100 seconds or a ghost will rape your dog tonight,” IT’S NOT REAL! QUIT BEING AN IDIOT!!!!!!!! THOSE R REALLY STUPID!
Ya gotta agree that was funny !!
June 28, 2006 43 Comments
Hmmm, love marriage v arranged marriage. Here’s a software engineer’s perspective on the same.
*Note: E-mail forward.
Which One Will You Go For??
Love Marriage or Arranged Marriage?
Love Marriage
Arranged Marriage
Hehehe, funny =D!
June 24, 2006 4 Comments
And I danced for the first time on stage for a group dance !! Hehe, yeah goes into some of the things I will remember in my life !!
I have uploaded the vdo @ Google Videos, not of the dance, as that’s way too big for me to upload it. But 2 sequences from the DJ nite, where in we are doing the same steps again !
The snaps as usual are uploaded into Guru Panguji @ Flickr.
June 19, 2006 6 Comments
Life has its funny moments certainly. Today, I was wondering about what is going on with my blogging. I thought it was indeed getting a bit popular! And Baba sent me this by email. I am quoting the original source
Having blogged in one form or fashion for the last 6 years or so (not including personal journals that I’ve written in, on paper even, with crayon even, since I was six years old), allow me to personally provide you with a rundown on the lifecycle that I’ve observed from personal bloggers.
#1. Start reading blogs.
You start out as a lurker and by either having met a blogger or run across an intriguing and challenging post from someone else’s blog, you start mulling about in your head for either a forum for response, challenge, or agreement. You *could* start by commenting on other folks blogs first, but you start having a gradually increased desire for a space of your own. Like when you’re living in your parent’s basement and the rest of your friends are making weekly trips to Home Depot and using words like “mulching”. You begin to wonder if you want to belong.
#2. You start a blog.
Maybe at first it’s on blogspot or livejournal. You start writing about cheese sandwiches. You use your full name and the full names of your friends that are involved in your occasionally mischievous exploits. These things satisfy you. Hubris starts taking a more significant part of your site as you develop your tiny homestead online. The notion of fleshing out your online personality becomes important.#3. You become a stats whore.
Daily stats/referrals and meme participation for webrings, quizlists, personality profiles, and the occasional sepia toned webcam photo to make you look all “emo” and “sultry” and “sensitive” or at least a little bit thinner. And definitely like a Kpop music video still image. You voraciously groom your links list as you build a posse. The wishlist makes it’s initial appearance and creepy strangers start sending you gifts when your birthday comes around. You consider this slightly weird, but hey, then again, you *did* get that Star Wars Box set that you always wanted. You *start* memes just for the additional traffic. Perhaps you even start a webgame of sorts.
#4. You become really personal on your site as the online and real-life worlds start confusing you.
As you recognize the possibility of being an opinion leader in your personal circle, people flame you. You occasionally flame back. You cry about comments that certain people make to provoke you. You bitch about these things as well. Then you take into consideration that comments were made by pimply 14 year olds who post jpegs of their warcraft characters online and realize that these lOZeRs aren’t worth your time. This gives you an sense of superiority. Haha! you say to yourself. I have a posse and a blog and you don’t. So fuck off, you lame twat. Hazzah!#5. You faux “retire” from blogging.
Having temporarily exhausted the emotional reservoir from which your personal blog has sprung forth, you post about retiring. Or a vacation. Or a hiatus. Or a sabbatical. You say this will be permanent. Or last a month.
#6. You cave back into blogging in less than 72 hours.
You candy pants blogging crack addict.#7. You decide to “get serious” about blogging.
You seek out “The A-List” of bloggers and start reading more of them, and news about them, and news about blogging in general. You come to the conclusion that if you ever hope to join their rank, then you need to at least register your own domain. After all, http://candypantsnewbiebloggeraboutcheesesandwhiches.blogspot.com will not get you linked by Kottke.
#8. You have a pseudo flirty im/blogging/flickr flirting relationship with another blogger whom you have never met.
This will likely end badly. Very badly.
#9. You decide that you must meet other bloggers.
SXSW seems like a good way to go about it. Or attendance at Fray Day. Or finding any excuse possible to move to San Francisco. At least a trip, after all. With a visit to SF, meeting other “celebrity” bloggers is just as tasty a tourist destination as going to Fisherman’s Wharf. Or more so. Definitely more so. Your blogroll grows threefold.
#10. You take a step back and metablog about blogging and what blogging has done about your blogging.
You become pedantically navelgazingly annoying. For some reason, your blogger readership eats this shit up. This does not convince you, however, that you want to do something silly like smoke weed with Marc Canter. Because even *you* know that’s a bad idea.#11. See step 5. Shampoo, rinse, repeat.
#12. You decide that as a result of step 10 and having repeated step 5 more than 3 times in the course of your lifecycle as a blogger, that you need to sanitize or reinvent your blog. You purge or hide archive entries and take more note to remove full names of your friends/crushes/accidentaldrunkenfondels from your site and links list. Your blog goes back to cheese sandwiches. But this time your site validates.
#13. You either lose your job because of blogging, are afraid of losing your job for blogging, or join a company that builds blogging tools. Either way, your blog either dies a horrible painful death, or becomes significantly less personal to the degree of trite and uninteresting compartmentalization or subject matter discretion.
#14. You decide to start an anonymous livejournal blog. Here is where you still talk about your crushes, the he said/she said crap, and that you really really really really really really really like Maroon 5. And it’s on
Hilarious!! I can't stop laughing!! Awesome MinJungKim =))
June 16, 2006 4 Comments
[Slow mellow acoustic riff giving a very ominous brooding] – 4 beats
[Drums start with just the base drum going DUDH DUDH DUDH DUDH per second] – 4 beats
[The guitars get into the distortion mode]
[The second guitar - lead comes from a low volume end of scale notes]I am walking down the lane
Walking down the street
Ambling through the alleys
Away from the bustling beatAnd I pass this old man
With his tattered torn blanket
Clothes once plush and rich
Now, rags and buttons rusted….[Snare hits ta-ta-ta-ta, and cotinue with the normal 4beat rhythm]
[Ominous Chords - have to check with potti]
[Chorus]I walk downcast
Down this empty street
Through the black crowded roads
I still walk aloneI walk downcast
Down this empty street
I walk through these crowded roads
And still I am all alone….[Back to DUDH DUDH on the drums + riff on rhythm + end of scale on lead]
As I near the old man
I heard him call my name
Startled I turn,
And face his gaze through the mane[hold the lead..... and a vibrato]
Gaze through the maneFear filled my eyes
His mane shining through the glow
As he parted his hair,
Gazed me back like the mirror I know…[Snare hits ta-ta-ta-ta, and cotinue with the normal 4beat rhythm]
[Ominous Chords - have to check with potti]
[Chorus]I walk downcast
Down this empty street
Through the black crowded roads
I still walk aloneI walk downcast
Down this empty street
I walk through these crowded roads
And still I am all alone….[4 beats pause]
[Power chords strum for 1 beat]
[All die out but for the rhythm and the drums following the rhythm is a slow time roll]I run out and scream
Getting louder with passing stay
The beat tells me that soon
It’s gonna be my dying day…[Just snare and base, with the lead going beserk over the ominous feeling givers]
Be my dying day – my dying day
My dying day – my dying day
Be my dying day – my dying day
My dying day -my dying day….[A screaaammmm]
[Everything comes in]I run out and scream
Getting louder with passing stay
The beat tells me that soon
It’s gonna be my dying day
Fate’s a crazy player
Never knowing what’ll come
I run with my eyes open
Watching out for death’s own pun…[Break into the lead after a reverse slide] – 4 beats
Death’s own pun…..
[end with the lead holding the highest note reached after playing for about 20 beats]
June 16, 2006 Leave a Comment
Today started off with a clogged nose
I feel like exploding, like when you hold a pressured hose
Now stuck in a training with some overhead transmission
To not kill the irritating specimen next to me is my mission!Bored , yes o yes
Rite now everything feels like a mess!
About an hour to go
I am moving on to a higher low
I found these in my drafts folder. Apparently, I had written this down during one of the many training sessions I have been attending over the past 6 weeks !! Couldn’t find the date when I wrote this !! Wait the moment is coming back. Oh yeah, this was during Syngo 3D training!! Hehehe!! Yeah now I remember the irritating specimen sitting next to me!! I am sure some people reading this mite know as well !!
June 16, 2006 25 Comments
This article stemmed off a comment posted by Vina for the post – IIT Status to CUSAT!
Vina: Hmmm, I don’t want to sound too generalistic, but every person born and brought up in a state of theirs have a special connection with the state. I am a Tamilian, born and brought up in Kerala! I think Kerala is a place that has its own sets of virtues and vices. And according to me it happens from anywhere. People from the North, South, East or West will tend to mix up with their own place people!
Well, to be honest, the one thing that I have noticed is that Keralites are the people who are not exactly proud of who they are. A lot of people I know staunchly are actually ashamed of being who they are when they should be proud of coming from God’s Own Country.
Hehe, diet oh yes! But you can’t blame ‘em. Go anywhere you will find a Malayalee place to eat yaar. And as predicted, if Moon’s decided to be occupiable space, a “tea-shop” can be expected to be open there as well!
And, Keralites aren’t exactly unfriendly as how you have put it up! Yes, they are coming from a narrow-minded background, but they are _not_ and I insist so narrow-minded not to accept you for who you are. They will react when you down-play them. As is the case anywhere else in the world as well!
Lemme give you another example – something that I have noticed among Marathis especially. They have a very strong bond between them. Once they get to know that the other person is a Marathi, a gang builds up and slowly you’ll find that the links grow in an exponential manner. A Marathi committe mite be soon up and running. It’s awesome how they do it.
So, is the case with the Telugu community. In buddy referrals, they overtake any other community.
Malayalees that way, are way far behind, too individualistic, if I may. Anyhoo, that’s _not_ the point here! The point is that I think you might be wrong. Maybe Kerala needed this boost. Once they get a healthier amount of people from other states in, they will automatically open up more. They have got to be the most adjusting people if you have to find them at every nook and corner in the world, rite?
