A Solar eclipse myth
Posted on: January 28, 2010
Recently there was a great Solar eclipse on Jan 15, the longest solar eclipse after 1992. My parents and in- laws called me and were worried about this. They were worried because they are not allowed to eat anything between 6.30 am – 3.30 pm. There is tradition in my family, when ever there is an eclipse they will not eat anything until the eclipse is over. They will place Neem leaves on all the edible stuffs.After the eclipse they will take head bath, sprinkle holy water on all the places and then start with the regular work. May be there is this reason,why my family is following such a tradition. When sunlight is lesser there will be lot of possibilities for bacteria and viruses to grow. Neem leaves and turmeric water would purify all the substances of the bacteria and virus. They take bath to get rid off all the impurities from their body.
Apart from this, the myth about solar eclipses would be funnier to hear. Once when I was a small child one of my neighbor would say solar eclipse occurs because a snake would swallow the sun. As a small child I would look up to see a snake and finally make sure that the snake was hiding behind the cloud. This is interesting to look back now. One of our helper would say the God’s are dancing in front of the sun , hiding the sun from us. Wow but why are we not able to hear the song though. The same person stated another definition for earth quake ” Earthquake occurs because the Mother earth would shift the earth from left hand to right hand”. Myself and my dad would laugh out loud for this, but still I loved her innocence. Whatever science may be at the background for such natural process, it is spicier with these petty stories and myths!!
A funny resume..
Posted on: January 26, 2010
What is Resume or Curriculum vitae?
“It can be stated as a document showing all the professional experience one has in his domain, stating his positives , accomplishments and describing his talents and why he should be recruited for an organisation. ”
Initially everyone will have a very genuine resume with them. When you start looking out for job especially in US, the consultants ( or people who will fetch you a job and then loot you of all the money) , will have a look at your resumé. Immediately they will ask ” Will you be able to increase couple of years in your resumé , only then your resumé will be screened?” . Initially we will think a lot , then convincing ourselves that we are increasing only couple of years in our total years of experience and thats fine.
Next when this resumé is in the market, lot of people will call you check your ability and your knowledge in that particular area. The conversation may be similar to this:
Consultant ” Hi this is Sam, am I talking to Mr. Blah blah, How are you doing today?”
Mr. Blah Blah ” Yeah this is me and am doing good”. Sam ” Hi sir we have a requirement for a developer who has experience in java, C, c++, SQL server, should have very good experience designing the applications, should have experience in testing and must provide user support after the product is implemented. How well do you think you are fit for this project?”
Mr Blah Blah thinks for a second, takes another second ” Sam, actually i think you have mistaken me, i’m a mechanical engineer and I dont have any relation with computers.”
Sam ” Thats fine sir, we are direct client for the company and we can fetch you $50/hr, can you do me a favour of updating your resume with all the requirements and send to me ASAP. I also need two GENUINE REFERENCES stating that you have worked with them. If you have any doubt feel free to contact me.”
Mr Blah Blah gets stunned, shocked, surprised and starts updating his resume ( Mostly from WIKI and from Google search). Thus a new computer software engineer is born in this world with great mechanical background.
2012 – a retelecast
Posted on: December 12, 2009
Recently myself and my husband went to watch this movie “2012” in theater, cos it has been really a long time since we went to some movie. We dropped our kid at our friend’s place and went to this movie. No wonder, the movie was really good, all the special effects and the screenplay was all good. For quite some time we were feeling the pressure and the tension. Good work!! But Somehow I feel that the movies ” Volcano”, “The day after tomorrow”, ” The knowing” all happening in a single movie. It was like a collage of all the other movies , but presented in a grand way. Next awaiting for “Avatar” again the same concept but in animation. I was wondering , why everyone have already started thinking about the end of the world, the destructions , tsunamis engulfing the lands, volcanoes erupting from everywhere, oh my God. This is really scary, what if this all this happens in real
I liked one concept of this movie. Information found by Indians, executed by Americans and finally the whole world look towards china for saving them. Space ships ” Made In China”. Hopefully the quality of those ships will be good, otherwise all their lives would be in stake. The next best point is what if they write all the controls in Chinese, then it would be miserable. Whatever lets hope such things don’t really happen, if it happens it would be terrible.
Best place to refresh
Posted on: December 11, 2009
This article may sound a bit way out of normal , but it is the fact mostly misunderstood or fact overlooked by us..
I was browsing through some channel and finally landed up seeing a survey show, where they will throw questions and try to get vote based on the answers received. The anchor was asking the audience ” Which is the best place to hang out, where you feel very relaxed and good”. The answers were like beaches, resort, hill stations, bars, girl friends house ( woow!!) and so on.
Suddenly this crazy idea flooded in my mind just as always. I was thinking what would be the best place to hang out which refreshes us. Of course all the other answers were really good and everyone loves to do it. We love some thing for short-term right, for example, we are very tired or vexed or tensed or extremely happy when at office and want to vent out that immediately. Everytime we can’t go to some beach or hill station, then we will be permanently sitting at our house. But there is this place right at the corner awaiting to be used , which will make you feel lighter and at the end you will be brighter :). Its none other than the restroom. It may sound yuck at first time, but I’m sure that everyone of you would have experienced one or many of the following:
When we are extremely tensed , when we use the restroom and wash our face, we will feel lighter and better to handle the forth coming situation.
When something is stuck, we are not able to move any further, we will get some good ideas the moment we step in the restroom.
When we are tensed , with heart beat really going high, for any reason it may be, the restroom helps us to calm down a bit and gives courage to face the situation.
I have seen many kids will use this place to escape from studies.
This can also be used as a hiding place when you want to hide from someone, no one will come and disturb you when you are there. So you have your own time of planning for the escape.
I have heard of girls using restroom for messaging and talking to their boy friends.
It is just not these, there are so many ways you can use the place. So now we get totally different feeling about using this place, not just mechanically. So 2 in 1 , it helps you to dump the waste from your body, at the same time gives way for clearing your brain and make you feel lighter in every way. You can also share your experience with me ( just for fun!!) . All these holds good if you use the restroom daily. For people using twice a week or once a week, I’m sorry to say this ” This is a hell!!!”.
Santa are you there?
Posted on: December 11, 2009
It’s full of fun, filled with Christmas lights, cookies , cakes, shopping flees, flooded here in the streets of US. Especially talks about Santa at its high. It is really fun to learn about Santa, his gifts to kids on Christmas, kids waiting eagerly for their surprise present to show up on the day of Christmas. It’s really fun and good to see these kinds of events. Everyone loves surprises and those surprises will be really special when we get from some one we loved the most in this world. These kind of events makes us think that we are of course special for some one. I still remember the beautiful gifts I got from my mom as surprise, i would jump in joy and shout at the top of my voice. Those moments are so special and will be long-lasting when we think back in our life. Somehow the spirit of Christmas is creeping into me. I started thinking if Santa is really alive and will he get me presents when I write to him. It’s good to think this way, making me feel like a small child again. Anyways ” Santa if you are real and if you happen to see my blog, just give me a call, I have a big list for you…”
Lazy or Active
Posted on: November 26, 2009
We know what is being lazy and being active.. but actually if we dig deep there is not much of difference between them, but just a single point..
Active Person thinks ” I have a work to do, anyways I have to do it.. so let me do it now!!”
Lazy Person thinks ” I have a work to do, anyways I have to do it.. why not do it later!!”
But the best point is , both of them realises that they have to do the work, only the time of action is different..thats better in one way.. Now I wonder what will be the name of the person who thinks ” Do I have a work? “
Maan Dictionary
Posted on: October 25, 2009
Maan is no one other than my little girl.. Now a days she talks a lot, but half of which i dont understand. Thought I would share the words she says in exact pronumciation and the meaning.
1) Apppie – Apple
2) Bawl – Ball
3) Buffy – Butterfly
4) Sish – Fish (mow mow mow…fish opens and closes its mouth :P)
5) Gayes – Grapes
6) Cuck – Duck
7) ” qackp.. qackp” – ” Quack .. quack”
8) eendhi – Get up
9) Pawl – Milk
10) Casch – catch
11) aana – Elephant
12) Aasha – Hasini ( My friend’s daughter)
13) Kakhi – Sugar
14) Hawow – Hello
15) oikee oikee – oink oink pig sound ( you shd see her face expression for this…her cheeks max out and looks like a big smile…a delight to watch)
16) Owwwwwwww – Owl
17) Ter tie – Turtle
18) Muok – Mukku (nose in tamil)
The list keeps goes on, but i’m just bored to update the page.. So publishing with this, we will add up more words in the future releases.. 🙂
What If?
Posted on: October 24, 2009
I was just thinking….
What if I was still just small crying for my food and looking at my mom, as if she is the whole world..
What if I was still just small child trying to walk holding onto my dad’s hands for each step..
What if I was still Small and just started talking and looking at my parent’s expression for the word blabbered..
What if I was still looking at my mom’s frightened face when she thought I was lost and all the more angry when she saw me :)..
What if I was still in school studying hard competing with my friends and jumping when I get my progress report..
What if i was still frightened to go back to home after finishing my exams for the fear of questions being asked..
What if I was still there outside my house with a piggy bank in my hand deciding if I should run away or not?
What if I was still in my teens looking at the mirror as if the whole world would start looking me if I step out of the house?
What if I was still in my teens looking around to find the man of my life ( or boy of my life?)
What if I was still there looking very stupid after knowing my results and trying to look around for college..
What if I was still there with my two sweet friends enjoying life as if nothing stand in front of us.
What if I was still there with my friends just laughing and laughing and laughing..
What if I was still there with my cousin, talking all through the day and laughing even if there is nothing at all..
What if I was still there at my office having nice chat with my friends, working and jumping for appreciation mails..
What if I still there with my sweetest grandma holding her hand tight, so that she may not left me now for ever!!
What if I was still there patrolling around the city with my friend, dreaming about something which is nothing today..
What if I was still dreaming about getting married .
Now I’m here married, having a child and having lot of friends. All those petty things in life gives me a sense of happiness ,and i still miss all those, which can never come again. Long live memories!!
Lost my image!!
Posted on: October 8, 2009
My daughter first learnt to say my husband’s name. His name is raghu and she used to call him as “Aju”. That will be really sweet. I was trying to make her say my name, “Durga”. But it was very difficult for her . She would try , but would land up saying something else. Three days back, my husband was teaching her to say my name and for the first time she said ” Duka”. Something, but atleast very close to my name. Like in terms of fuzzy logic in a scale of 1 to 10 , I would give it 7. Then she did not call me very frequently.
Yesterday morning I got up first and was preparing for the breakfast. At around 8 ‘o’ clock I heard my sweet little 18 months old pumpkin calling me ” Duka.. Duka.. Duka.. munnin”.. which means : ” Durga.. Durga.. Durga.. Good morning”. This did not stop, she did not call me as “Amma” but was just referring to my name for everything she needs. This continued till afternoon ” Duka.. Book”, “Duka.. Bufy ( Butterfly)”, ” Duka.. bawl ( Ball)” . Later that afternoon I was talking to my friend over phone. My daughter would never allow me to talk over phone. She was calling “Amma” for two to three times, when she noticed that I’m not going to listen to her, she started calling me ” Duka.. Vaaa ( Durga.. Come here)”. This is where I lost my image :(.. She was calling me “Amma”, i wanted her to say my name once, but now I wanted her to call me “amma”, but she keeps telling my name.
Over a Cup of Coffee!!
Posted on: October 8, 2009
Milk, Sugar and little bit of coffee powder makes a delicious and hot coffee. The coffee becomes much more tastier when you have a very good partner, with whom you can have coffee with. I always like to have coffee with some company rather than drinking alone. Drinking coffee is a beautiful time you get in a busy day schedule. I almost consider it equal to Yoga or doing meditation. But also beware of your coffee partner otherwise it becomes the horror moment in a day. There are few good tips for a good and relieving coffee time:
1) Choosing a good brand of coffee, otherwise we may have to spend the rest of the day at restrooms :).
2) Choosing a good and reliable friend / husband/ lover , the character requirement will be discussed later in this blog.
3) Good ambience, where you will be motivated to talk without any eavesdropping taking place around.
4) Good snack ( Fat or fat free or carb free or whatever free, that depends on your requirement).
Why to think so much for drinking a cup of coffee? If you had this question in your mind already, it means that you have missed the greatest fun in life, of drinking coffee with a company. I would say when I have a friend , I would like to make a good cup of coffee or tea depending on the interest of others. Sit down on the table, grab some snacks , take a sip and visualize the coffee going down through my food pipe. I don’t know if this is true. As the coffee passes down my throat and before reaching my tummy, on the way it tickles my heart and says ” Hey buddy its your time!!”. My heart immediately thinks what all happened from today morning, do i have anything to say and so on. Then my brain gives signals to my mouth and it starts pouring out. The things may start from my daughter shifts to my husband , my work at home , other problems, confusions I have and so many other things which I have been mulling over and over again. Thus a single drop of coffee makes me to talk about so many things. So imagine what a full cup of coffee would do. It does so many things even before you realize. It makes you to talk, there by making your heart lighter, it makes you to laugh over nothing , it makes you feel light and gives lot of energy to carry the rest of the day’s work. But this all will happen only when you have a good company. Lets take few charachters we see around:
1) I know of few people who will just drink from the cup like “:Rrrrrrrrrrr.. cham cham… rrrrrrrrrrrr… cham cham.. “, this will demotivate you. You will feel when that dirty sound is going to stop. 🙂 They will not open their mouth until the last bit of coffee is done. Then they will look at you, by then you may some times see a drop of blood from your ear.”The end!!”.
2) There are few others, who will start talking and keep talking and keep on talking, without giving a chance for you to talk. This time coffee drinking will be a tiresome job, as you have already loads in your heart and a few extra load added to you.
3) Few others will not open their mouth , but just say “Hmm..mm.. rrrrrrrr .. Hmm.. mmm…rrrrrrrrrrr”. I hope now you got the sound of rrrrrrrrr.. This time also you will be very tired as you have been talking all through the time, with no response from other end.
4) There are few , who is very perfect for spending the coffee time. Who will listen to you when you talk and who will talk when you listen. But, when they have coffee with others they will tell them what all you told them. This is called ” Coffee Gossips”. So beware of them!!!
So what kind of partner you really need, you need someone who talks when you listen and who listens when you talk and who is reliable. What ever talked over coffee should last longer until the cup gets empty. But make sure you don’t make any agreement with them. Then it will last longer only over a cup of coffee!! For example, I asked my husband I need some gold jewelry. He drank his coffee and gave the cup to me and said , ” The coffee is over!! Now i don’t remember what we spoke while drinking coffee!!”.
A cup of coffee is a poetic moment which we get each day. Choose a good location, good partner it will be divine.
After reading this blog , if you think of skipping drinking coffee, that would be the best suggestion I would give. Don’t waste time “OVER A CUP OF COFFEE!”
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