Children of Heaven – wonderful movie with subtitles!

One of the most beautiful farisi movies that I happened to watch over the last weekend.
The director is Majid Majidi. The story line is based on two sweet kids who shower love
and affection for each other.

Ali is the elder brother who is just 9 years old and zahra happens to be his sister. Their parents are financially not sound and struggle to run the family. Karim, the kids father works in the masjid(mosque).Ali works hard and helps his father apart from his studies.

Ali looses zahras sneakers and the poor sweet kids manage to go to their schools with
Ali’s sneakers. Ali darling takes every effort to get a new sneaker for his sister. The story revolves around this and there goes the movie like an itune.
The movie will remain my all time favorite and I would watch it few more times.

Here is the link for the movie and thanks to my lovely friend who sent me this link.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?num=10&so=0&hl=en&q=%22children+of+heaven%22+duration%3Along&start=0

Updating Children of heaven.

I gave quite a good description about the movie to S. I know she is a kind of
Person who would love to watch one such movie.
Some of the beautiful things that S and I relished were:

1. We both liked Zahra very much. There is a scene where the mother calls Zahra to peel the potatoes and take care of another baby. S imagined Zahra would be a girl in her teens. You know, she was surprised to see Zahra was hardly 7 yr old.

2. There are so many fascinating small lessons that the movie brought out. When karim is so tired, he asks for tea. Zahra being the most responsible kid, who takes care of small chores, prepares the tea. Karim immediately praises Zahra that there is nothing equal in the world to the tea that zahra prepares.

Small appreciations are great boostersJ

3. Though the family struggles hard for money, still there is a kind of divine understanding among them. (Like “Mugavari” family…. yet another good film), they care for each other so well. Each time when Ali says he cannot join the other children for playing just because he has to take care of his mother who is ill, shows the profound love that the kids have for their parents. Imagine at the age of 9, a child can empathize so much. Money can never compensate unconditional love, empathy, basic humane qualities that one should possess. A small family yet very sweet.

Whoa Ali and Zahra are really children of heaven. S felt one such movie should be played to children of current generation. But then I was thinking, could children really understand the minute thoughts in the movie? Certain qualities that children possess are from their genes and also by their brought up. Parents ought to take every care in enriching good thoughts. Beyond all that, it’s a blessing to have nice parents and children.

S and I have discussed about this numerous times. We share similar feelings and have discussed about each other’s childhood memories and about our loving parents quite often.

Shall update this post as and when I get comments from others.

Quotes I liked

1)The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.


2)Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind.
To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse.
To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better.
To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

3)This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

4)The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Unpredictable sometimes

Sometimes the world seems to be so still. To my dismay I could not think ahead and find out what do I have to do. Life remains frozen and with the hope that there would be light at the end of tunnel, the days are passed by. There are so many dreams, ambitions and desires to be fulfilled. But its all misty as to focus on which one is priority. People near by cannot understand what is rolling within. A hitch at one point makes to fumble at another point.Often ending up with unpleasant arguments. Not sure who is to be blamed, but for sure does not help longer. I believe time would bring in a change.

Does this happen with many?

Waiting For a Spring

I have been working in the IT industry for considerable amount of years now. The very first thing I understood was, either you slog like an owl day and night or remain to be free like a donkey aimlessly. When I was a fresher in my company, I used to be exuberant and any piece of work given to me would be completed with greater commitment and passion. No doubt the commitment is still there. Creating opportunities and grab anything that comes to me used to be the motive then. All that ransacked the mind was, one has to have learning curve irrespective of work culture and the kind of coworkers they have. Over a period of time I was quite skillful in the technology I was working and did not require any external motivation to get over the trauma of being new to something.

The industry accepts a person that he/she is comfortable enough to handle things after a year of experience irrespective of he/she has worked during that time. Anyways the first year in my career was so hectic. I had enough learning curve and was even proud at those times thinking that I was blessed to work in a hottest technology in the market. Nevertheless, I still claim the technology is interesting, but the work what I do matters.

I have always observed that the work was like a fluctuating weather. It’s either scorching heat or biting cold, but never a spring. Last year my project was demanding more than 18 hrs of dedication in a day. passion turned out to be pressurising rather.I should say people were ruthless to approve leaves even when we tend to fall sick. There used to be times when we get back to home past midnight and back to work in the morning itself. The minimum time to afford for eating and sleeping were also difficult. When the other members in the team required leaves in their critical position, one member in the team has to always compromise .Challenging work and the hope of climbing up the ladder always helped to revive the spirit of accepting the situation and not appreciating the complaints that persisted. The stressful work culture made me think many times even to look for better options. But running from a problem does not help and nothing is assured that one may not face the same situation in a different place. I used to have a feeling that only my project is so tiresome and others keep enjoying the luxuries that the company offers.Though I am a kind of person who really does not like such work environment I was still helpless and had to accept it.

I fathom that, change is the only constant thing. Now I could hardly see stressful projects. I tend to remain with a feeling that almost many are relaxed checking emails and playing games. For having worked so hard for a long period, one really deserves such a period when one can devote more time to their personal priorities.But over a period of time ,remaining workless at office hours ,makes one feel guilty for not doing anything. I am very sure the company does not loose anything as it expects to work only when it demands.Its wise to make use of such time in preparing for any technical certifications or any other note worthy thing.But continuing with it in long run does not give any pleasure and it also creates boredome soon.

Well, the trend of the industry is in such a fashion that one has to swim with the tide. There is no point in howling about it. But I wish there could be some pleasant season as well ,where in one can work only during the business hours, typically an ideal balance between personal and official hours.

I am not here to conclude anything, but then thought would share a general phenomenon that is prevalent across.

Life's success depends on right attitude

Never believe the lines on your hand to predict your future,
because people who have no hands also have a future.
-THINK!
http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/01056/HellenKeller.htm

The above said quote was sent as SMS to me. It was thought provoking indeed.

When I was in my college days, there was a professor from a different department
who used to travel in my bus. He was a kind of person who had an interest in palmistry.
He was very friendly with everyone but always created an opportunity to read palms.
I am a kind of person who is curious about all these things. I believe in it sometimes and sometimes I have a feel that am just curious. May be it depends on what kind of impression I have on the person who reads the palm. I was once forced to be a victim of his palm reading. I hardly remember what he told me, but am sure many of what he told me did not turn out to be true.

At some point of time in life ,when we end up with problems which we think are unsolvable, we run away from solving the problem and start analyzing our fate or future. Instead if we start working on how to approach the problem and solve it, am sure we are close to completion.


I have interacted with visually and mentally challenged children. I had once been to a school for visually impaired children. The purpose of the visit was to aid them to read their academic portions as they felt they required some assistance in it. The children were nostalgic when they had new people to get acquainted with. I was there to assist some 3-4 children who were around 12 yrs old. I was also there to teach them computer science. I thought them for quite sometime and they really liked it. Later we started playing word building, antyakshari and many more. There was a guy in the lot who had excellent keyboard playing skills. I was thrilled to see his talents. I learnt from him that passion and optimism can bring out excellent results.


Most of the success in life lies in self confidence, determination, perseverance and on top of it optimism. Optimism is like a seed which gives nourishes favorable results.


I personally feel from many of my experiences that, we can come out of any critical point when we remain to be bold, patient, persevering, optimistic and leave the rest to the almighty. The thought really provoked me to write this article as I wanted to bring out the fact here that life does not depend on the lines in palm.


P.S: Fellow blog writers can log in whatever they feel on the article, in the comments section.

Disclaimer: The post is not intended to hurt those who have belief in astro science. The motive is to bring out the essential attitude one has to possess.

Kurumbu Princess

I love her so much. I call her princess. She is the heroine in the generation next of my
family. Ani baby, kuts, valu kutty are her other names we use to call her. I call her princess cuz she is a delicate darling baby. "Semma valu".

When kuts was born, she was so fair and cute. I always admired the model babies who starred in the advertisement commercials. I was so happy when princess looked like a model baby. She has cute twinkling eyes (thuru thuru kangal).When I look into her eyes, I feel beautiful brown, Golden and indigo colored butterflies flying in the garden. On other occasions, it feels like twinkling stars in the dark sky when seen with the naked eyes.Her smile is so beautiful with loads of kurumbu in it. She is very tiny yet extremely active.

I played with kuts almost everyday when she was in India for a while after she was born. My sister held her in her arms and sang lullabies, but kuts watched TV.
The moment sis stopped singing, Princess started crying.When Princess was 3 months old my sis and princess went to the place where they live now. After almost a year, I finally saw kuts again six months back. I enjoyed playing with her. This time when Princess was back in India again, I realized she had become more naughtier, if that was even possible.

Princess doesn't like to eat much. It’s very tough to make her eat paruppu sadam or thachi mammam. Give noodles, chocolate or lays chips, she is so fond of all that.
But some how sis manages to make her eat rasam sadam. That's mainly when we played smart cookies CD for her. Kuts usually sat in the chair so beautifully, enjoyed the smart cookies and made a big fuss to eat. On compeling her to eat, she started with her usual crying and to console her was no easy task. Sis learnt lot of rhymes. She herself looked like a doll. When
Kuts and sis started dancing for rhymes, OMG no wonder it was a puppet show :)

The usual rhymes that we learnt from sis to convince kuts for anything is:

Bakka bakka kakka,
Uller uller uller,
Ringler ringler ringler
Ussshhhhhhh.

(This is a rhyme in a European language, which explains the cake preparation).

And now kuts with her tiny fingers would open her eyes in different sizes. If she opens the eyes very small, it means the action has to be small. Then the medium sized and big sized one.
I relish every moment being with princess.

Princess has lot of games to play. There was a huge board for arranging the
alphabet. Awww god knows how she managed to remember. On saying an alphabet, she would pick up A for apple and place it there. She never placed them wrong. Her power to grasp new things is excellent. She had a box full of building blocks. She usually inverted the box and placed all the blocks on the bed and again took one by one to put them back into the box.
Princess as I said earlier was very active and she did not liked sleeping. When we scolded her, kuts would do a funny action. When sis said "kuts close off your eye", kuts immediately would shrink her eyes. Sis sang lullaby for her.Sis would then sing a lullaby for her. Naughty kuts slowly would open one of her eyes. Sis again would scold her harshly."mmmmmmmmm innum thoongalaya ?" She would shrink her eye in a moment and would then close her face with both her tiny hands.

Ani ababy usually said Ha Det(goodbye in a European lang). Meaning we need to take her for a jolly outing. When she desired to have icecream ,she would enact licking the spoon from the cup. Am sure she can win many dum charads competitions in years to come :)
I made her call me chithi. Sweet kid grasped so well and now calls me "chithi".

I asked her "kuts chithi nenuma nanava"…………(Means, do u want chithi or not ?).
She would crankily tell "nena", nena.(Means, I don’t want).Then I would take her Ha Detand asked "chithi nenuma nanava??? "
Princess started with her usual expressions. She would smile , hug me and nod her head in approval.

P.S: This post is dedicated to my princess as she is going to turn 2 year old in this month.