அந்த 13 நாட்கள்

ஒரு நிமிஷம். தயவு பண்ணி உங்க கற்பனைக் குதிரைய அடக்கி வைங்க. நான் சொல்ல வந்தது என்னன்னா, அனு இல்லாம பசங்களை வெச்சிட்டு 13 நாட்களை எப்படி ஓட்டினேன் அப்படிங்கறது தான்.

இதன் பின்னணி பற்றி தெரியாதவர்களுக்கு - அனுவின் அப்பா உடல்நலம் சரி இல்லாததால் அனு அவசரமாக இந்தியா கிளம்ப வேண்டி வந்தது. ஆக, பசங்களை நான் பார்த்துக்கொள்ள வேண்டிய கட்டாயம். இதை படித்துக் கொண்டிருப்பவர்களில் எத்தனை பேருக்கு இந்த அனுபவம் என்று தெரியவில்லை. ஆனால் எனக்கு இது ஒரு புது அனுபவம். அனுவோடு மட்டும், அனு மற்றும் குழந்தைகளோடும்  அல்லது தனியாக கூட இருந்திருக்கிறேன். இந்த 13 நாட்கள் (அனு கிளம்பிய மற்றும் திரும்பும் தினங்கள் உட்பட) எப்படி இருந்தது, எவ்வாறு அனைத்தையும் வெற்றிகரமாக செய்தேன் என்று அசை போடுவதோடு நிற்காமல் உங்களோடு பகிர்ந்து கொள்ள வேண்டும் என்று தோன்றியதன் விளைவு தான் இந்த பதிவு. சரி, என்னோடு காலச் சக்கரத்தில் என் வெற்றிப் பயணத்தில் பயணிக்க வாருங்கள்.

அனுவை விமான நிலையத்தில் வழியனுப்பி வைத்துவிட்டு குழந்தைகளுடன் வீடு திரும்பிய நொடியிலிருந்து நான் வெற்றிகரமாக செய்து முடித்தவைகளின் பட்டியல்.

அன்று இரவு உணவில் ஆரம்பித்து, அனைத்து நாட்களிலும் நானே வீட்டில் அயராது சமைத்து கொடுத்தேன். இதில் இரு வேளை இரவு  வெளியில் சாப்பிட்டோம், ஒரு இரவு எங்கள் அபார்ட்மெண்ட்-ல் நண்பர் வீட்டில் மற்றும் ஓர் இரவு எங்கள் வீட்டில் உண்ட பிறகும் வரவேண்டும் என்று அவர்கள் வற்புறுத்திய அன்புக்காக சிறிது உண்டோம்.  இது தவிர முழுக்க முழுக்க நானே தான்.  சமைத்தால் முடிந்ததா என்ன? அந்த பாத்திரம் எல்லாம் கழுவி மறுநாள் அதை அடுக்கி வைத்து என அது தான் பெரிய வேலையே. ஆனாலும் சிறப்பாக செய்தேன் என்று தான் சொல்ல வேண்டும்.

காலையில்  பிள்ளைகளை எழுப்பி, அதிதி-யிடம் பல் விளக்கு, ஏதேனும் சாப்பிடு, குளித்துவிட்டு வா, உடைகளை அணி, சீக்கிரம் சாப்பிடு, தண்ணி குடி / கொப்பளி, காலணி போட்டியா, சீப்பு/ரப்பர் பேண்ட்  கொண்டு வா, பள்ளிக்கூட பையில் எல்லாம் இருக்கா என்று பர பர என்று இருக்கும். இதில் திங்கள் அன்று அத்ரித்-தும் பள்ளிக்கு போக வேண்டும். ஆக 2 பேரிடமும் இந்த போர் நடக்கும். இதில் அவனுக்கு அனைத்தையும் நான் தான் செய்ய வேண்டும். இவை போதாதென்று பள்ளி முடித்து அழைத்துவரும் பொழுது அவர்கள் சாப்பிட நொறுக்குவதற்கு பார்த்து கொண்டு போகணும். மற்ற பிற வகுப்புக்கு போக வேண்டிய நாள் என்றால் பள்ளியில் இருந்து அங்கே நேரே கூட்டிப் போய் வர வேண்டும். இவை எல்லாம் முடிந்து வீட்டுக்கு வந்தவுடன் டிவி கொஞ்ச நேரம் பார்க்க சொல்லி சில நாட்களில் என்னால் முடிந்த பொழுது பால் அருந்த தர வேண்டும். பிறகு அந்த வார வீட்டுப்பாடங்களை எல்லாம் செய்து முடிக்க உதவணும். இதில் நடுவே இயற்கை அழைப்புகளுக்கும் உதவணும். எல்லாம் முடிந்து இரவு சாப்பிட்டதும் இருவருக்கும் பல் துலக்கி / பல்லிடுக்கு நூலால் சுத்தம் செய்து படுக்க வைக்க வேண்டும். சில நாளில் நானும் கூட படுக்க வேண்டும் என்று சொல்ல நானும் படுத்து அவர்களுக்கு முன்னால் தூங்கியும் இருக்கேன். இதை விட அவர்களுக்கு பெரிய உதவி என்ன இருக்க முடியும், சொல்லுங்கள்?

வாரக்கடைசியில் சனியன்று இதர வகுப்புகளுக்கு இருவரையும் கூட்டி சென்று வர வேண்டும். ஞாயிறன்று தலை குளியல் அவசியம் இருவருக்கும். அன்று மாலை கோவிலுக்கு கூட்டிப் போய் வர வேண்டும்.

குளித்தவுடன் விழும் துணிகளை 2-3 நாட்களுக்கு ஒரு முறை துவைத்து, காயப் போட்டு, அதை எடுத்து மெத்தை மேல் கடாசிவிட்டு முடியும் பொழுது கொஞ்சம் கொஞ்சமாக மடித்து வைக்க வேண்டும். இதில நடுவே மழை வேறு, துணி காயவில்லை. உள்ளே ஹீட்டர் போட்டு காய வைக்க வேண்டும். அப்பப்போ துணி அயன் செய்ய வேண்டும்.

காய்கறிகள், பழங்கள், பால், தயிர் என்று வாங்குவதை விட அத்தியாவசியமானது பசங்களுக்கு நொறுக்கு தீனி வாங்கி வைத்துக்கொள்வது. வாங்கியே ஆக வேண்டும். "இல்லை என்றால்?" என்று கேட்பவர்கள் ஒரு முறை தானே போய் மனைவியை ஒரு வாரம் டூர் அனுப்பிவிட்டு தெரிந்து கொள்ளவேண்டும்.

திடீரென்று கண்ணில் படும் நாட்காட்டியில்3-4 நாளுக்கு சேர்த்து கிழிக்க வேண்டும்.

சேரும் குப்பைகளை இரு நாளுக்கு ஒரு முறை அப்புறபடுத்தியே ஆக வேண்டும்.

இவை எல்லாவற்றிக்கும் நடுவில் என் அலுவலக வேலையும் பார்த்தாக வேண்டும் (அட நிஜமாவே தான்...சொன்ன கேளுங்கப்பா).

இத படிக்கிறப்போ அடடா எவ்வளவு செஞ்சிருக்கான் இவன்-னு என்னை பற்றி யோசித்த ஈர நெஞ்சங்களுக்கு (ஒன்றிரண்டாவது இருக்கிறதா என்ன??) என் நன்றிகள் கோடி. அப்படி யோசிக்காத மத்தவங்களுக்கும் சேர்த்து சொல்றேன். பார்தீங்களா எவ்வளவு விசயத்த அனாவசியமா செஞ்சிருகேன்னு.

இருங்க இதோட முடியலை. மேலே நீங்க படிச்சது எல்லாம் என்னோட சுயபுராணம், விளம்பரம், தம்பட்டம் எப்படினாலும் சொல்லிக்கலாம். மேலே கூறியள்ள அனைத்தும் ... ஹே யாருப்பா கற்பனையே-னு கூவறது? நல்லா இதுக்குனே இருப்பாங்களே சிலர். முன்னாடியே சொன்ன மாதிரி உங்க கற்பனைக் குதிரைய நல்லா புடிச்சி கட்டி வைங்க, புரியுதா? இப்போ நான் சொல்ல வந்தது என்ன-னா நான் என்னதான் இப்படி கதறி கதறி பேசினாலும், எப்படி appraisal சமயத்தில் employee பக்கம் பக்கமா நான் இது பண்ணேன், அது பண்ணேன், நான் இல்லனா ஒண்ணும் செய்திருக்க முடியாது-னு எல்லாம் சொன்னாலும், மேனேஜர்  இரத்தின சுருக்கமா "நீ ஒண்ணும் கழட்டல"-னு ஒரு வரியில சொல்லிட்டு "அடுத்த முறை இன்னும் எதிர்பார்க்கிறேன்"-னு சொல்லி Meeting the Expectations என்று சாத்திட்டு போய்டுவார்.

ஆக எப்படி நான் ஒரு வீர தீர பராக்கிரம சீலன் என்று என் பக்கத்துக்கு நிகழ்வுகளை சொன்னேனோ, அதுபோல, என்னோட இந்த புராணத்தில் பயணித்த என் இரு கண்மணிகள் இந்த நாட்களில் என்ன யோசிச்சிருப்பாங்க-னு ஒரு சிந்தனை, இப்போ பாக்கலாம்.

"அப்பா, அம்மா வேணும்" - இப்படி பசங்க விமான நிலையத்தில் சொன்னப்போ சரி அம்மா கிளம்பறதால அப்படி கேக்கறாங்கனு நினைத்து "வந்துடுவாங்க டா" என்று சமாதனப்படுத்தி வீட்டுக்கு கூட்டிட்டு வந்தேன். ஆனால், ஒவ்வொரு நாளும் இதையே கேட்டுட்டு இருப்பாங்கனு நினைக்கல. போதாக்குறைக்கு, அம்மா-வோடு skype-இல் பேசும் பொழுது எல்லாம் "எப்போமா வருவ?" என்று கேட்பது வாடிக்கையா இருந்தது. எதனால் அப்படி கேட்டாங்கனு யோசிச்சி என்ன பட்டமா வாங்க போறேன்? மற்றும் இப்போ அது ரொம்ப முக்கியம் கிடையாது. அவங்க அம்மா இல்லாத சமயம், என்னை பற்றி, என் மாபெரும் பணியை பற்றி என்ன சொல்லி இருப்பாங்க? கேட்டுத்தான் பாக்கலாமே?
"குட்டிஸ், அப்பா உங்கள நல்லா பாத்துக்கிடாங்களா?" "அவர் எங்க பாத்துகிட்டார், நாங்களே தான் தேவையானதா கேட்டு கேட்டு வாங்கிகிட்டோம். சாக்லேட், ஜெல்லி எல்லாம் தரவே இல்லை".
"சாப்பாடு நல்லா செஞ்சாங்களா?" "ஹ்ம்ம்...ஜெல்லி கேட்டால் தரவே மாட்டாங்க? அம்மா மாதிரி இல்லை" (இதுல சாப்பாடு எங்க இருக்குனு கொஞ்சம் கேளுங்களேன்)
"ஜாலியா இருந்ததா அப்பா கூட?" "நாங்க சாப்பிடறப்போ, படிக்கிறப்போ,  விளையாடரப்போ, தூங்கறப்போ எல்லாம் அப்பா TV பாக்கவே விடல. friends கூட விளையாட அனுப்பவே இல்லை. சாக்லேட், ஜெல்லி எல்லாம் தரவே இல்லை"
"வெளியில எல்லாம் கூட்டிட்டு போனாங்களா?" "பார்க் ஒரு 3 மணி நேரம்தான் கூட்டிட்டு போனாங்க. அவ்ளோதான். சாக்லேட், ஜெல்லி எல்லாம் தரவே இல்லை"
கொலைவெறி-யா ஒரு கேள்வி..."அப்பா வேணுமா அம்மா வேணுமா?" "(என்ன இப்டி பக்கிதனமா ஒரு கேள்வின்னு நெனச்சிட்டு தான் சொல்லுவாங்க) அம்மா தான். அப்பா எப்போ பாத்தாலும் திட்டிட்டே இருக்காங்க. பால், மம்மு, பழம் மட்டும் தான் தந்தாங்க. அம்மா வரட்டும் சொல்றோம். அம்மா இருந்தா தான் நல்லா இருக்கும். அப்பா சாக்லேட், ஜெல்லி எல்லாம் தரவே இல்லை"

இந்த கடைசி கேள்விக்கு அப்புறமும் என்னோட இந்த ரெண்டு குட்டி மேனேஜர் குடுத்த மதிப்பீடு பத்தி எதனா கேக்கணுமா என்ன? வேண்டாம்பா விடுங்க.

இந்த உலகமே இப்படித்தான் கொடூரமான முடிவை நம்ம மேல சுமத்தும். கூட இருந்து நான் செய்த அனைத்தையும் பாத்த இந்த ரெண்டு மேனேஜரிடமே இப்படி ஒரு மதிப்பீட்டுக்கு மேல் எதிர்பார்க்க முடியாதப்போ, மேனேஜர் சொல்றத கேட்டுகிற மற்றும் நம்ம பக்கத்திலே இல்லாத CEO கிட்ட என்ன எதிர்பார்க்க முடியும்? அட, சரிதான்பா, சரியா தான் சொல்ற, அட யாருப்பா அது, கொஞ்சம் சத்தமா சொல்லு. அதே தான். அனு-வை தான் சொல்றேன். எங்க வீட்டு CEO அங்க இருக்கும் போதே, பாவம் பசங்கள ஏன் போட்டு படுத்தறீங்க? நான் வர வரைக்கும் எதோ பண்ணிட்டு போகட்டும் விடுங்க. இப்படி சொல்லிடு இருந்தவங்க கிட்ட நான் மதிப்பீடு வேற எதிர்பாத்தேன் அப்டினா அதுக்கு பேர் மடத்தனம். அதனால் CEO-வின் முடிவு பற்றி பேசி நேரத்தை விரயம் பண்ண விரும்பவில்லை நான். அவ்ளோதான் விஷயமே. வேற எதுவும் இல்லை போய் உங்க வேலைய பாருங்கப்பா.

நான் சொல்ல வந்தது என்ன அப்டினா வேலையை செய், ஆனால் எதையும் எதிர்பாராது செய். அவ்ளோதான். என்ன, நானும் இப்போ மேனேஜர் மாதிரி பேசறேனா? நாமளும் வளர வேண்டாமோ? ஹிஹிஹி.

என்ன தான் சொன்னாலும், இந்த நேரத்தில் என் நன்றியை சிலருக்கு சொல்லியே ஆகணும். முதலில் எங்க ஆபீசில் நிலைமையை அறிந்து குழந்தைகளை பார்த்துக்கொள்ள வசதியாக வீட்டில் இருந்தபடியே வேலை செய்ய அனுமதித்ததற்கு. அடுத்து எங்களின் கற்கண்டுகள். நான் என்ன செய்தாலும் வளைந்து கொடுத்து, என்னை தட்டி குடுத்து அனு இல்லாத குறையை தீர்த்த எங்களை பாக்கியசாலி ஆக்கிய எங்கள் மதிப்பில்லா சொத்து. சில நேரத்தில் என் நிதானத்தை இழந்து கடிந்து சத்தம் போட்டாலும் சில மணித்துளிகளில் வந்து கட்டி கொண்டு அப்பா என்றதும் "இதை விட வேறென்ன வேண்டும்" என்றெண்ண தோன்றும். அடுத்து அனு-வை சொல்ல வேண்டும். அனு-வின் blog-ஐ பார்த்து என்னால் முடிந்த எதோ ஒன்று செய்து whatsapp-இல் போட்டோ போட்டோ-வாக அனுப்பி "பாத்தியா? பாத்தியா?"னு பீற்றிக்  கொள்ளும்போதெல்லாம் "அடேங்கப்பா...கலக்கறீங்க. உங்க பசங்களுக்கு உங்க சமையல் தான் ரொம்ப பிடிக்கும்". அங்கே இருந்த கடினமான சூழ்நிலையின் தாக்கம் என்னை அண்டாத வகையில் "முடிந்த அளவுக்கு பண்ணுங்க, நான் வந்து பாத்துக்கறேன்" - இப்படி எல்லாம் சொல்லி என்னை ஒரு மேதாவின்னு நெனப்புல மிதக்க விட்டு வேற பதற்றம் ஏதும் தொற்றிக்கொள்ளாத வகையில் தைரியம் கொடுத்து பார்த்துக் கொண்டதுக்கு. கடைசியா இப்படி ஒரு சூழ்நிலை ஏற்படுத்தி தந்ததற்கு கடவுளுக்கு நன்றி பல சொல்லியே ஆக வேண்டும்.

இவ்வளவு சொல்லிட்டு கருத்து எதுவும் இல்லேன்னா எப்படி? என்ன தான் மோசமான ஒரு நிலையில் இருக்கோம்னு ஒரு உணர்வு இருந்தாலும், கடவுள் கைவிட மாட்டார் மற்றும் எல்லாம் ஒரு நன்மைக்கே என்று நம் பயணத்தை தொடர வேண்டும். இப்போதைக்கு அவ்வளவுதான் என் பயணமும். நீங்களும் கூட பயனித்ததற்க்கு நன்றி. இந்த நிறுத்தத்தில் இறங்கி உங்களின் பயணத்தை தொடருங்கள். மீண்டும் நம் பயணத்தில் எங்கோ நாம் சந்திக்கும் வரையில்...நன்றி!!

QVENDO - Choose as you wish!!!!!

QVENDO - you made me feel like a VIP as I am one of the few people who have got the opportunity to buy or get what I want just by preparing a wish list. At first, I thought what should I have in my wish list. But when I registered and saw the items, I just lost myself in the trendy, stylish items and of cpurse the price too :) and my wish list just started growing even without having complan.

Come on man, I can wish to have anything from the site and need to blog it to own all those items. So what should I wish for? Everything in the site or what? I know I can do that but I did not want to do that. I just stopped with choosing things for me and my luv. Yeah, men and women are to be treated equally right :)

So lets juz move on to the wish list I have prepared for me and my luv

For me

This combo struck me at the first look and juz check it to find it yourself. I am sure, after seeing it, you would be looking out for one such combo. The snap is created with these items:
True Religion Longsleeve Bike Seat Rock N, True Religion Jeans Ricky Super t Straight Alabama, True Religion Shoe Black, Replay Gents Watch - RH7312NJ1

And lets see what I have wished to have for my Luv:

A similar combo for my lady can be seen here. And it is created using Replay Ladies Watch - Big RM5303DH, True Religion Jeans Billy Spt Women Jean, Luis Trenker Shirt Alina Dark Blue Women, Luis Trenker Shoe Leona Dark Brown Women

Check out the pic:

"Is that all I wanted for me and my luv in such an open invite for sweeping away the gorgeous items?" - is this the question running into your minds. Then, please shake it off and here comes the other items I wished -

for myself

True Religion Shirt Nice Guy S/S C

Luis Trenker Blazer Sandro Black Men

Luis Trenker Belt Franco Brown Men

Luis Trenker Shoe Axel Brown Men

and for my luv

True Religion Jeans Billy Black Stretch

True Religion T-Shirt White

Luis Trenker Dress Silke Grey Women

Replay Gold Bracelet - RVB205JH8

I hope I have made a simple but lovely choices from such a lovely place - QVENDO. Thanks in advance :)

Though I dont like to finish this, I would want you all too to wish and get what you like by first registering through this link Register here. Then as a privileged customer, you can log in and  list down what you want by going thru the site The Luxury Private Shopping Club

Note: This post is an entry for the contest on Indiblogger.in under Discover QVENDO

29 Aug 2011: Freedom from Fuel Hikes

Freedom - what a word it is and how each one of us are fond to be saying "I have Freedom". And the fight for freedom is not a new thing to all of us. Every time we want to be free from something or the other at various walks of our life. If you look at our forefathers, they fought the English to obtain free India. And now, with Anna Hazare's initiation almost all of us are willing to fight to make free India to be freed from the corruption. So in one way or the other, whether it is yesterday, today or tomorrow, we look forward to Freedom from something or the other.

So how is that we can get freedom from the fuel hikes which have rocketed like anything in few years? The fuel hikes which has become a constant daily news for each one of us. As you tear away a date from your daily calendar you should be dreading to hear the hike in fuel prices. Just go and check with the women - nowadays they are not even worried that they are older by a day but much more worried to see a day pass-by, just frightened to hear the news of fuel price hike.

The reasons that are provided for the fuel price hike are more of political side and I let that to the people who deal well with it - news channels. What ever be the reason our concern is that every month we need to allocate some extra amount towards fuel budget from that of the previous month. This is the hard reality that all of us are facing.

So, what could we do to overcome this fuel hike? One option for the 4 wheelers is that they can move to Diesel vehicles if they are on Petrol now. Still the initial investment for the Diesel vehicle is substantial and moving from the one you have already is not that easy either in terms of the amount you might lose on re-selling. In spite of all these things, if you move out to a Diesel vehicle, with the current trend Diesel will soon catch up the petrol's price in the near future. Which fuel should we move from Diesel to?? Kerosene or what??? Ideally cant beat the fuel hike.

Atleast for 4 wheelers they have an option to bring down the monthly expense by switching to Diesel. What about the 2 wheelers? Should they opt for diesel engine? (auto companies, its actually an idea for you guys to work on the diesel engine for 2 wheelers like how Enfiled had years ago... and dont worry I wont ask you for more % :)) So till the time they have an option they will have to stick with this only. No overcoming the fuel hike in this case too.

We have buses, lorries, tempo travellers that run on diesel. So can we go for any of these for our daily ride or what? :)) Atleast I wont and cant. Or we should plan for a ride in a tonga or bullock cart or rickshaw or by walking which we were doing ages before. But are these feasible?

One solution that I could think of is that we could still move to diesel vehicles. Hey guys.. wait dont rush to beat me blue. Wait a minute and listen to what exactly I wanted to tell you all. I meant to use the public vehicles - yeah.. you got it... buses. By using the bus for our daily commution we could actually beat the fuel hike. How??

Assume all of us use the buses for commuting to any place we plan to go. This way the number of vehicles that come on road becomes lesser. This means the fuel consumption per day becomes lesser. The roads are freed by the excessive vechicles. This means reaching the destination would be close to the actual timing (to those who wonder what actual timing is: for a 10 km distance how long it should take ideally? 15 to 20 minutes right? But can you say that you can reach the place in that time with the always growing vehicle population? sometime it could take an hour too). This means the demand will be less and over a period of time the government might think of bringing the price down. I know they wont show that urgency in bringing down the price as they show while increasing it, still hope is what life is and lets atleast hope for that to happen :) Above all we could have made the environment smell a little greener. For this the government has to come up with more buses that are better to commute. Hike in fuel cost is fueling the hike of other necessary things for day to day life and it is time that government should really look into this issue seriously.

Having proposed this, I know this is not an easy thing to implement with all of us used to plan our travel based on our priorities. But with such things it is very difficult to get freedom from fuel hikes. We would grudge about the hikes and allocate some extra money and proceed. This is the hard reality we have to face today and to be frank really struggling for the freedom from fuel hikes. Can we expect a Anna Hazare for fuel hike issues to be born? Time will have to tell :)

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16-Jun-2011: Aditi Anjay @ LKG 'A' Section!!

It is 16th June 2011. Though it may not mean a lot to you all but it was a moment to cherish for Anu and I as Aditi started her academic year in LKG class. Yes, this is the day Aditi went to her LKG class after being promoted from Pre-KG. So for another year, it is going to be Aditi Anjay, LKG 'A' Section, PSBB LLA, Bangalore :)

Wanted to share with you all on how her first week into LKG went. Few weeks back we went to pay the fees (hope most fo you all, by now, know how big hole it makes in your pocket!!!) and got her books, shoes and uniform. This is the first time she is gonna wear uniform in PSBB (earlier she wore uniform in when she was going to Apple Kids) as for pre-kg there was no uniform and it was a big challenge for us on choosing a dress daily. Now we dont have that challenge hihihihihihiiiii. She tried the uniform there.


The day before her first day in LKG, took her to a studio near by and took passport size foto for her ID card.


Aditi seems to say that she is going to go to PSBB school for the 2nd year:

And thats Aditi in her full attire with her ID Card minus school bag:


Eager to know what is in store for her at school - new teacher, few new friends, new location and things like that. With her mom inside our apartment (only to those who know tamil: சிங்க நடை போட்டு song in the background :)):

We waited sometime for her school bus. It came around 8.45am and we followed it to the school and were waiting around the entrance to the KG section. There was an Aunt and a teacher in the bus. Along with them, the driver helped in getting the kids from the bus and took them to their respective classes. Aditi seen standing in the line with all the kids from that bus.


Now she marches towards her class :)

She had to cross a small Vinayakar Temple (to her right) inside the campus

before entering into the KG section - that's Anjay clicking the KG section.

Come on, let us enter to have a peek into the KG section.

Aditi's class is in the first floor. She need to take the step and come to the right corner in the foto for her LKG 'A' section class.

We met her class teacher and then came home. In the afternoon, went to pick her up from the school bus and waited for quite a long time as expected since it was the first day and know it would be a mess there in school before the buses started. Her bus came almost after an hour's wait at 1.30 pm. We could see her smiling on seeing us from the bus while few kids were asleep (you cant expect them to be awake since they leave so early in the morning.)

Once she got down, she immediately opened her school bag and showed us what they did on the first day. A craft item with a "welcome" on it. She told her madam asked them to do the sticking.

And a closer look at what she had in her hand:

Exactly a week later she got the first "star". She told that her madam gave it to those who colored nicely and posed with the star in her hand:

This is juz what happened during her first week into the LKG. Hoping to share a few more in the days to come. Till then, tata bye bye :)

Recognition.

The below blog, "Mixed Emotions - Happiness and Sadness!!!", I posted on IndiBlogger a few months back has been recognized as one of the Top 20 blogs.

You can check the same on the Indiblogger site. I have taken a snapshot of the above page:


I have included the IndiBlogger's IndiRank widget in this blog:

Clicking the widget will take you to the post "Mixed Emotions - Happiness and Sadness!!!"

Your feedback/comments please :)

16-Jun-2011: My blog made it to Top 20 on Indiblogger

Hope few of you might remember about me telling about the blog I posted on IndiBlogger few months back. Yesterday I received a mail stating that my IndiRank is 20 for the post "Mixed Emotions" . You can check the same on the Indiblogger site. I have taken a snapshot of the above page:


I have included the IndiBlogger's IndiRank widget on my blog . Clicking the widget on my blog will again take you to the post "Mixed Emotions" .

Your feedback/comments please :)

Mixed Emotions - Happiness and Sadness!!!

I feel I should share a moment where I felt the opposite feelings together - Happiness and Sadness. Yeah, it was Diwali time and it is needless to say that it is the time for gala celebrations from North to South irrespective of where you are located. Before moving on to describing the moment I would like to tell a few lines on Diwali and happenings during the festival.

And the debates like "should we really fire crackers? " or "is buying crackers a waste of money?" or "crackers are nuisance and cause of a noise pollution" or in any other context will happen if not at a bigger level, it will happen between your friends and close ones.

So what exactly Diwali mean? For me its time to relax, enjoy, feel happy, have sweets and many many other sweet things you can think of. Even few of my friends (for that matter my better half ) would say "is this the age to fire crackers?" or "I have not liked it even during my younger days". Is there any specific age or some cut-off for anything - not only for firing crackers? It is perfect as long as one likes to do it. So if one does not like to do it, so be it. That does not mean they should expect others to follow them as well.

I know some of you must be feeling a bit jittery about the .Hope, after reading the content below, you will agree to why I was elaborating it above.

It was that momentous Diwali day. It started as it had in the previous years. We got up early and had oil bath (maybe not like the usual bath, at-least we had oil applied all over the body :)). After having some eatables, we started firing crackers - almost all types starting from Bijili, Lakshmi crackers, Sparrow/ crackers, atom bombs to garland crackers - in the morning. We were so happy and so immersed in firing that we seldom noticed the lads watching it around the corner.

When I was about to fire a garland cracker, I went to that corner and found a few lads watching at us. I asked them
"what are you doing here?"
And got the immediate response "watching you fire crackers".
"Why are you not doing it? Go and fire crackers"
"We don't have crackers at home"

For a moment, I was lost. I called them, after some hesitance, they came and I gave few crackers which we have bought and asked them to fire it either here or at their home. They started firing them near our place itself. Maybe their parents would not feel good or the lads might be punished for getting the crackers from outsiders.

Whatever it might be, I was more than happy at the moment for seeing them firing crackers happily and at the same time felt really sad for the lads who could not spare for few crackers. I know few lads might come just like that to have extra crackers. But I felt that was not the moment to validate if the lads were really not having crackers or they wanted extra. When I watched them fire the crackers so happily, it instilled a little more happiness in me on that auspicious day.

Let anybody say anything - its a waste of time and money, noise pollution etc. I felt that if I can make a few lads happy by giving a little percentage of what I had, I am content and happy. So at-least for few such kids, I buy crackers every year without fail. Hope some of you are upto this already. Thanks guys.

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15-Jan-2011: பொங்கல்!!

இத்தைத்திருநாளில்
கதிரவனை நமஸ்கரித்து
மஞ்சளும் கரும்புமான அலங்காரத்துடன்
ஆண்டவனை உளமுருக வேண்டி
பானை வழிய பொங்கவிட்டு
பொங்கலோ பொங்கலென கொண்டடுவதைப்போல

சந்தோசங்கள்
உறவுகள்
செல்வங்கள்
வாய்ப்புகள்
அனைத்தும் மென்மேலும் பொங்கி வழிய
எனது உளமார்ந்த வாழ்த்துக்கள்!!!!

08.Nov.2010: நானாக நான் இல்லை...

பட்டாசு தயாரிக்க குழந்தைகளை
உபயோக படுத்தியதை எதிர்த்து வாங்காமலிருப்பதா? - இல்லை

பட்டாசு தயாரித்த குழந்தையின்
உழைப்பு வீண் போகாமலிருக்க வாங்குவதா? - இல்லை

பட்டாசு வெடிக்க ஆவலாக இருக்கும்
என் குழந்தையின் ஆசைக்காக வாங்குவதா? - இல்லை

பட்டாசு வாங்காது போனால் தவிக்கும்
என் குழந்தையின் தவிப்பை போக்க வாங்குவதா?

வாங்குவதா? வேண்டாமா? புரியவில்லை ...
ஆனால் ...

நானாக நான் இருப்பதொன்றும் அவ்வளவு
எளிதல்ல என்பது மட்டும் புரிந்தது.

08.Nov.2010: தீபாவளி(லி??)!!!

தீபாவளி அன்று யார் வீட்டின் முன்
நிறைய பட்டாசு காகிதங்கள்
என்று தெருவில் வேடிக்கை பார்த்தபடி
சென்றனர் இரு சிறுவர்கள்...

தான் வெடித்தது தான் அதிகம்
என்ற சந்தோஷத்தோடு ஒருவன்
அவன் வீட்டினுள் ஓடுகையில்...

இன்னொருவன் முன்னவனை விட சந்தோஷத்தோடு
தனது சாக்குமூட்டையை திறந்தான் -
அந்தக் காகிதங்களை அள்ளுவதற்கு!

Tirunelveli - Kerala Trip: 06th to 10 Oct 2010

Most of you know that we had been to a 5 days of religious cum vacation trip in the October, 2010 from 06th to 10th. Just wanted to tell you a little about the trip.

Origin of the trip: I would like to tell how this trip originated. The actual plan, was that we were planning to visit Anu's native temple, Lord Laskhminarayana, in Paapakudi near Tirunelveli in Tamilnadu. It was a long pending trip as we should have visited immediately after our marriage. Anu used to tell me often to visit the temple. So after 5.5 years at last we planned to visit or rather the Lord allowed us to visit Him. No train tickets available even before 1.5 months as its the only train running in that route. So we just checked if we could go in flight and found 2 airports nearer to Tiruvnelveli - Madurai and Trivandrum. Once Trivandrum came into picture, we thought of Guruvayur as Anu had the Thulabaram in the Guruvayur Krishna temple pending since she was 3 years old. Thus, what ought to have been a weekend trip turned out to be a 5 day vacation for us :) And I need not tell that we had a great time all thru the trip except that Anu was not in good ' health.

A little detail on the places we covered.

Day 1 - 6th Oct: We started around 3.15am and reached Bangalore airport around 4.15am. Took few snaps and climbed the Kingfisher flight by 6.30 after completing all the formalities. This is the first time Anu's parents are travelling in a flight while my mom had been in flight earlier but its her first fligh with me. Sure they would have had great feelings. They provided breakfast - sambar idly and vadai..mmm it was yummy that time though a bit sweet. The view was secenic just before we landed at at Trivandrum airport but was a little disappointed to see the airport. Cab driver Arun was waiting outside for us.


Welcome to Trivandrum and it was raining and we were a little worried to see the rain. We then started to Tirunelveli and reached there in the afternoon and had lunch. The route was pathetic really that we could not commute faster. There was no rain fortunately. Then went to Paapakudi Lakshminarayana Temple and waited for the priest for sometime. Once he came and pooja was over we had the prasadam and started back to Trivandrum and stayed in Nadan Hotel that night.

Day 2 - 7th Oct: Nadan Hotel was good except that we dint have hot water in the morning for bathing but we managed with the cold water, otherwise it was pretty decent. Had breakfast and went to Sri Padmanabasami Temple. The moment we went, a person came with a basket and literally banged into Anu's hands telling that its for consecration(archanai). Likewise, another person came up with the ghee pots. After a few yards, one person was there asking for money for all those we have been forced to buy. Since it was the first time, we thought its their practice and got it. If we need to perform consecration we will get it and they should not be forcing people to buy those things. This was the first shock. Then came the next part for waiting in the queue to view The Lord. We waited in the queue for consecration for quite sometime before we discovered its not going to happen as we expected. Then we moved to the general queue except Anu as she had the archanai basket. Both the queues are separted by a rod and thats it. The moolavar is same as that of Sri Rangam temple near Trichy, Tamilnadu. This one had 3 doors where each part of The Lord could be seen - Head, Body and Leg. We could sneak a glimpse of it, note a glimpse only and not a good / full view of The Lord. We came out and waited for Anu. Looked at other areas of the temple and came out. Then we visited Aatukal Bhagavathy AmmanTemple. It seems this temple is called "Ladies' Sabarimalai". Spent sometime in the temple.

Our next destination was Alleppey boat house. Before that we went to a Kerala Saree shop Karalkada and got sarees for the ladies. Could not get dress for Aditi there. The shop was really good and took some snaps there.
After shopping, went to Veli Lake and spent sometime there taking few snaps.
Then had lunch on the way and reached Alleppey boat house in the evening. It was drizzling. All of us boarded the boat house and sat in the drawing room for sometime. The boat house contained a drawing/dinner room, 2 bed rooms with attached bath and a kitchen and a roof top space. The boat started moving. We were given tea for refreshing.
Then it started raining and so they had to park the boat over the nearby shore. We were enjoying the new experience of traveling and staying in a boat house in the backwaters. They were preparing dinner for us and we were watching a movie in DVD when suddenly there was few surprise guests flying inside the boat. Came to know it was bats and they came for the fruit which they kept inside. Immediately I locked the fruits inside one of the rooms and sat there. Once the dinner was ready, we asked them to serve inside the rooms as we don't want our guests to visit again. But believe me, the bats did not come when we were having our dinner as the boat guys had told. We felt strange really. And, come on, its time for us to have a good night's sleep in the boat house.
Day 3 - 8th Oct: In the morning woke up early and enjoyed the nature and the vast area covered with water. We had coffee and slowly we got ready while our breakfast was also getting ready. In the meanwhile, the boat house started its journey to show us the near by villages. We were enjoying the travel having our breakfast and watched other boat houses passing by. It was a 2 hours journey and we thoroughly enjoyed it. They dropped us in the boat house station and we started our journey to Guruvayur.

On the way, we went to Ambalapuzha Krishna Temple. There was a statue for an Elephant but you will mistake it for a real one. It was the one which served the temple and they raised a statue after it was dead. Took few snaps and moved on with our plan to visit Athirapalli falls. Though it took sometime to reach there, we went and had a view of the falls and returned. Reached Guruvayur and stayed in Bhasuri Inn. Had dinner in their restaurant and rested for the day.
Day 4 - 9th Oct: Woke up after we felt its fine to get out of bed and we did not rush up to Guruvayur Krisha Temple. Got ready, had coffee and went to temple. We had to wait in the queue for a little over 2 hours. One good thing here is that it was very well organized and we dint face what we experienced in Padmanabasami temple in Trivandrum. Had a good dharshan of The Lord. We then waited in the queue for thulabaram - where we can donate any item for the wieght of us. We did thulabaram for Anu (rice) and Aditi (banana). They dont allow you to take your camera inside and they have a good business in taking snaps of thulabaram and such things. We also took few snaps and gave our address and money. They were so prompt that we received it in a week's time along with the digital copy in a CD. We were impressed really.
Then we visited the nearby Mammiyoor Sri Mahadeva Temple.

We thought of visiting few places in Thrissur which in on the way to Kochi. We heard that the Marine Drive in Kochi will be too good and skipped Thrissur plan so that we can go there before evening. This stretch was the horrible one. For a mere 100 odd KM, we travelled for close to 5 hours. Thats it, Marine drive plans too collapsed. By the time we readched, it was closed. Fortunately the government boats are closed and we went for a 1 hour drive in a private boat. It was a wonderful trip. Wondered how it would have been if we had gone before dark. In the travel, they showed us: Bolgatti Palace/island, new port under construction, Chinese fishing net, place where the backwaters enters into the Arabian sea, rainbow bridge.
After a good ride, we visited Anu's chithappa place, spent sometime talking to them, had dinner and stayed in a hotel near Kochi Airport.
Day 5 - 10th Oct: The final day of our trip. We got ready and visited Kaaladi, brith place of Sri Adi Sankara. Then we came to Kochi airport. Settled the cab and started our journey back to Bangalore in GoAir flight. Reached Bangalore around 3.30 and had something to eat and reached home.

So what this trip had for us. Due to the bad roads, we could not make it to the destinations as we had expected and ended up visiting lesser places. This is just the only bad, I dont know if I should really call it bad as we dint feel that way all through the trip, part of the trip.

The driver Arun was very helpful all through the trip right from handling the luggages when we have to almost daily take it outside the cab and keep it again the next morning; taking us to places where we wanted; communicating us about the places we come across in a way we can understand in Malayalam and things like that. Though we could not cover the list of places we had on paper, whatever places we went to, we had a great time and loved it. So I would say, it was a great trip for us and this time with our family :)

One Good Thing is...

All of us know that a coin has two sides. At one point in time, you can see one side of a coin only. If you had to look at the other side of the coin, unless you flip the coin, you will not be able to see it. Likewise, in life, you have most of the ingredients in pairs like happy-sad, tall-short and such pairs.

Why I am telling this is, most of the times, many of us, including me, will look at things happened to us - looking at one side of a coin. And we forget one important thing - not flipping the coin to see the other side. In not flipping we are unaware of what is there on the other side. And there is
always "One Good Thing" in what ever has happened which you might discover when you find time to flip. I am sure this does really excite you, but I am sure that when you flip, you will appreciate and accept that it is a fact that One Good Thing exists in anything, more importantly anytime!!!

Let us have a look at a few of the happenings that occur either once in a while or in our daily walks of the life, which had atleast One Good Thing in it.

One Good Thing

* when any of your closest person, be it a friend or relative or your love, ditches you under some circumstances, is that it is really good that you learnt that you cannot count on them anymore.

* when you have failed in any of your attempts towards a particular goal, see that it in turn makes you think much better to achieve what you wanted thus honing your ability.

* when you miss the train / bus to your work place from your family / friends on a weekend night, is that, you can spend with your closed ones some more time.

* when you feel sorry / bad on seeing few folks who slog a lot to earn very little, is that, you can relax as they have got something to take care of them

* when you cross a Volvo bus, is that, you can rest assure that you will not be the chosen one for those idiots who spit out on the street from a bus.

* about this post is that you have been reminded that always there is atleast one good thing in everything and has brought a smiling curve, rather than a frowning curve, on your lips for a moment atleast.

Though at moments, you will not be in a position to look for the good things in whatever has happened, it would be good to flip the coin to discover and recover from that soon to see for the good thing in that. Now that you know that there is a good thing in everything, appreciate life for letting you know through an incident or happening.
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20.June.2009: Closer look at the Sun.

Took this one from our balcony in Belathur, Bangalore. Zoomed the maximum possible in my handycam and caught the sun before it was off to rest. Loved the way it was and one of my friend told that the glare around the sun looked like Shirdi Saibaba, does it for you too? :)

23.May.2009: Shell in sand with sea behind.

Immersed the shell in the beach sand, took the snap by keeping the camera close to the sand. The result is the snap by your right hand side. Clicked in Elliots Beach, Chennai on a beautiful morning.

23.May.2009: Shell in my hand.

When I went to Elliots Beach (Besant Nagar), Chennai, with my friends on a beautiful morning, I kept the shell on my fingers and shot it by myself very close that the beach was cloudy in the background.

A Typical Day!!

Just thought of sharing how a day typically happens for us now after moving to the new place. So here it goes and most of them take place almost everyday excepting a few days.

Our typical day starts with music. Yes... listen to it now. Beep beep beep... thus goes the alarm somewhere around 4 to 4.30 in the early morning (should I say mid-night?). It is one moment when we hate ourselves like anything on why in the first place we set the alarm. Most of the times I do not get disturbed by such intrusions hihihiihiiii... Cursing with a "pch..." or "hmmm..." we (mostly Anu) hit the snooze button only to get irritated by the beep in a few minutes.

Though Anu wakes up to snooze it she makes sure that I get up first and get refreshed and she succeeds almost every time. Think this victory should give her a great feeling and this means she can sleep for some more time. And when I come out and wake her up, she opens and closes her 5 fingers as though pumping the air horn and I hear her feeble voice begging "5 minutes pleaseee...". Without waiting for my response she covers her head with the bed-sheet and continues her sleep.

I go out to wash the clothes. I should thank the washing machine that helps in completing this task. I sometimes wonder if the dhobi in our area washes so many clothes in a week atleast which we wash in a single day. I set the timer and go to wake Anu in case she is still sleeping. I start peeling fruits which we have when we travel to office in the cab. In the meanwhile, she joins me in few minutes in the kitchen after getting refreshed. Then she prepares coffee for both of us. Then she starts working towards preparing breakfast and lunch. Sometimes I assist her in cutting vegetables and then dry up the clothes.

Actually we have 2 situations - when Aditi is asleep or awake. So, all the above are possible only if Aditi is sleeping. But somehow she gets to know that both of us are out of the room and will shout either Amma or Appa. So I would go to take care of her, since I dont know cooking, while Anu does most of them on her own. The remaining is taken care by Anu's mom after we leave.

Once Aditi is awake, I go to take care of her. We get into bathroom to brush. Most of the times she brushes herself and sometimes wants me to do it. Then she will have milk (horlicks or boost) by watching TV. Then I take her to give bath, dry her, dress her up and comb her and she is ready. And in the meantime Anu is complete with packing the tiffin boxes for us - both breakfast and lunch, pack Aditi's lunch box and pack her school bag. This happens only when either Aditi or I are in a good mood, else one other task in Anu's plate for that particular day :)

Once Aditi is out of bathroom, it's the turn of Anu and me to get ready. Once we are ready, we kiss a goodbye to Aditi and rush to the cab pick up point, fortunately just in front of our apartment. I usually go first so that I can ask the driver to stay for sometime just in case if Anu has not arrived. We get into the cab and finish off with the fruits first before crawling into the book which we have in the laptop bag. I have heard and read that reading in the traveling vehicle is a strain to the eyes, and you can enjoy the world outside while traveling too. All that sounds fine, but if you happen to travel in the cab we go, for that matter any cab, you might as well be happy to not see how rashly he drives the vehicle. So to avoid getting tensed that early in the morning, we prefer reading some book or the other till we reach office.

By the time we reach the office, Aditi would have started to her school in the school bus at 8 am. She will come back around 12.30pm, picked up by the lady from creche that is inside our apartment. She stays there till we pick her up in the evening.

Once we reach office we go straight to the gym and work out for around half an hour. Then we refresh and go to cafeteria to have the breakfast we had packed from home. Once we are through, we goto our workplace and continue with our office work. We start from office in the evening at 4.45 and reach the apartment around 6pm. We then pick up Aditi from creche and go home.

After getting refreshed, I take Aditi to the play area. She spends sometime there along with the other kids in swing, slide and playing with sand. Sometimes, Anu joins us. Then we go back home. Anu continues with her dinner chores and Aditi does some coloring or that amuses her - singing. She loves it as she seldom closes her mouth. She will sing rhymes or movie songs or prayers or at times, something on her own. Its time for dinner. Once Aditi and I are through with our dinner, Anu will have her dinner and sets the dining area/table right before sleeping.

In the meanwhile, I will take Aditi to make her sleep. I have to tell her a story or two else she will not allow me to sleep. Most of the times, I tell her the story with half asleep. Sometimes, I wake up when Aditi shouts "come on tell appa" and had to hardly remember what I was telling her before I fell asleep and continue it :) Most of the times, before Anu is off to bed, she takes care of setting the alarm so that our next day also starts with music - obviously which we won't like it the next morning :)

Grand 'SLAM' Time

Hey its the month of April - time for an exclusive hunt - and every year this hunt will be on with mixed feelings. The hunt I am referring to is about getting your autograph book or slam books slammed by the buddies whom you think you dont want to miss, atleast for that moment, at a later stage of your life. Though the word SLAM sounds a bit harsh, I look at it a perfect framing. The words in the book will find the depth of your heart as though it is slammed inside your soul.

This exercise of getting your slam books slammed by your friends, teachers, non-teaching staffs (though I have not got one...hmm) will look more important than completing your final exams as you don't want to lose anyone before you move (in most of the cases). And this slamming happens right from the school days, it continues to your high school, then to college days. I am not sure if anyone has got their slam books before they leave from one company to other and maybe when they retire:)

What are the times which will make the guys pick a slam book? The situations could vary from moving from one school to other in case of elementary to high school or high school to higher secondary or school to college or in case of the person's parents getting transfered to a different place and the list can go on. What finally needs to be looked at is the guys coming up with a book in their hand in mixed feelings to get their book filled in by most of them around.

So, why this becomes so special in your life? I should say it is a very special phase that you would love to read what every one has slammed in your book about them - their birthdays, address, photo and most importantly about you :) Sometimes, even this would get rid of the enmity between a few in your schooldays which is really good, right? And for some, it could be an ambition to get it filled from the ones they like/love and the word from them will mean everything for them :) It gives you a lovely feeling at that moment and a great feeling when you happen to look at that book after several years. It works like a time machine that you make a special trip to that older moments virtually, live there for a moment with the happenings around that period and so on. And, reading it again after years makes you feel very happy for sure :)

The other day on the road, I saw two guys going thru the slam book and could see a smile on their face. Looking at them, unknowingly I was smiling and feeling happy since it reminded me of my good old days where I got autograph of so many great people who shared their times with me in some walk or the other in my life. Guys if you missed it during your school/college days, even now its not too late. If you are going to move to a different company from the one you are working now or if you are going to retire, make sure you get slammed by your people around and I can guarantee that you will love to read it after a few years.

So, get slammed and have fun!!!!!!

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Relationships!!

Have you, at times wondered like - "what's happening to me?", "few years back it was not like this", "what happened all of a sudden?", etc...?

Few years back you would have been talking to your closed ones (siblings, relations, friends...) without any hassles but now the scenario might be different that you try to avoid each other and you are feeling uneasy. You are like an isolated island with respect to that person(s) though you are very close physically.

If you look back at it, spending some time for that, you will realize that it could have been avoided by talking open heartedly. So talking the issues and thrashing it out before it's too late is a good thing to maintain relations is what I feel. It's not that we don't know this but we DON'T DO it. How sad :(

What's happening is that we are not ready to accept the uniqueness of each personality. Each person is unique in his own way. But when it comes to being together with others, we, somehow, expect others to behave like how we expect. So, we DON'T ACCEPT THE DIFFERENCES. On the other hand, we are not ready to listen to what others tell. That is, if your closed ones tell you something or wants to comment about your act, you are not OK with that and DON'T WANT TO LISTEN.

When such things happen and you don't talk about that, the gap becomes large that you start to feel some discomfort with the respective person. If the talking had happened somehow, you would not have moved into the so called discomfort zone. So start talking to your closed ones open heartedly, now atleast so that such petty things dont destroy the relation between two good people. These talkings are good in any kind of a relationship - be it between your siblings, between your family members, between parents and their children, husband and wife or between friends.

Aren't these things very simple and can be shoo-ed away just like that without any issues? It CAN be done provided, you - both the ends - are open to accepting the differences and listen to what others say. I know it is very difficult though easily said but when it comes to maintain relationships, which atleast I feel, is very important in all walks of our life.

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15.Mar.2010: Artist Anu's feat!!

Think most of you know that my better half (yes, really better :)) Anu does many art work that includes drawing. She has now got a drawing notebook and started drawing after a long gap. Recently she drew a toy seller picture using different HB pencils for shading. It came out so well that I immediately took a copy of that drawing and pasted in my workplace. No wonder that everyone who had seen that drawing were amazed at the work and I really felt happy for her.

I never knew that much more happier moment is waiting in the cards for me. Yes, my manager Sri went a step ahead and asked me if Anu will draw some picture for her in a chart. She also told that she will get the chart and pencils for that. Isn't that a great thing? Yes, it is and I was very happy to hear that. I checked with Anu and confirmed that she will do it.

Anu din't say "yes" immediately as she was afraid if she was of that calibre but ultimately agreed. The next day, Sri came with 2 charts and charcoal pencils and I handed it over to Anu :) Anu (for that matter me too) was not aware if such chart sheets are there as we are used to the normal chart papers only. Also, it was the first time that Anu will be trying in charcoal pencils. She thought she will first try in one chart to learn the nuances to use charcoal pencils and then will draw in the other chart.

She started to draw the same drawing which Sri liked. She could not spend time during the weekdays and sat to draw during the weekends, that too after Aditi slept. She spent totally 3 weekends to complete the drawing. And, yes... she did complete in the first chart itself which she told she would first try. Think I need not say that it came out really well and was beautiful.

We handed the chart to Sri and she was very happy that Anu took sometime to draw it for her. In the next 2-3 days, Sri sent us the snap of the drawing that made both of us very happy. Sri framed it and added more beauty to the drawing and hanged it in her home and snapped it and sent it to both of us. That moment was really great.

This is the collage of her drawing before and after framing :)

Anu was so happy to see her drawing decorating someone's drawing room :) Wishing her to achieve more and who knows maybe I would be managing her business in the future scheduling her Art exhibition :) I wish that to happen for my wonderful lady :)

11.Mar.2010: உணர்தல்

உன்னைக் கண்டதும்
பருந்து பறப்பதற்கு
தன் இறகை மெலிதாக அசைப்பதைப்
போலிருக்கும் என் மனது...

நீ என்னைக் கண்டதும்
புறா பறப்பதற்கு
தன் இறகை படபடப்பதைப்
போலாகிறதடி என் மனம்!!!!