Sunday, May 31, 2009

Feast

This is a very nice song.... It has lot of ingredients to it...Waterfall, forest, birds chirping, rabbit.........
One can enjoy the song on mute...Music is a bonus to it and its all the more mesmerizing.
When i see the song it rejuvenates my cells...I wish I were in that place and relax for few days.




Some of my favorite verses from the song are:



salithu poanaen manidhanaay irundhu
parakka vaendum paravaiyaay thirindhu thirindhu
parandhu parandhu


uppu kadaloadu maegham urpathi aanaalum
uppu thanneerai maegham oru poadhum sindhaadhu
malaiyil vizhundhaalum sooriyan marithu poavathillai
nilavukku oliyootti thannai neettithu kolgiradheymaegh
amaay naanum maaraenoaadhan maenmai kunangal kaanbaeno
sooriyan poal avai maaraenoa en jothiyil ulagai aalvaeno
jananam maranam theriyaa vannam naanum mazhai thuli aavaenoa


When I see this song, this reminds me the beautiful adirampalli & wayanad falls :)






Enjoy the Song! :)

Saturday, May 30, 2009

It’s going to be close to a year since I moved out from OC. Today I was reminded of my friends M, S, R & B. It’s hard to make friends like these four. My stay in S’s house was great. It was a pleasant surprise today when B called me. Those were the critical days when I had to face things, when I missed my family a lot and these people were blessing in disguise. I should say god sent.

Who will take a day off to take care when someone needs attention? M was very kind enough to do that. S called me at frequent intervals to know if I had breakfast, lunch etc…Evening when she was back from office, she would give me a big glass of orange juice…ensures I eat my dinner properly…B cooked dal rice for us. He had damp eyes when he was at S’s place. The entire team came to S’s place.

S wanted to spend time with me till I was there with her. I know she felt every moment was precious. All of them came to the airport when I left…Till I went to the security check, SL, Su, S, M and lot others took pictures.. S gave me a lovely rose before I left home and wanted me to hold it till I boarded the flight.. Su wanted me to have the flower that she gave me…….

Nice friends and lively were those days with them.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

जीवन का राज़




परियों की रानी बोलती है

दीवार में चुप चुप के जीवन का आध्यात्मिक राज़ बोलती है

जीवन में सब कुछ क्षण भंगुर है

कल की आयु आज के चैन में है

किसी ने पूछा नही, किसी ने सुना नही, किसी ने समझा नही

आख़िर अन्तिम साँस लपेटे हुए ऊपर का भी मेहमान बनके चलते हैं

आंखों में आँसू पोंछ्के वो फ़िर से बोलती है

आज एक अनमोल रत्न है

यही है जीवन का आध्यात्मिक

Airtel Super Singer Grand Finals Part I

I was shocked to see the results on Monday. One among the five finalists was eliminated. I was not happy to hear that Prasanna & Ranjini had a difference of 8000+ votes’.

It was excruciating to digest the fact that Ranjini was eliminated. I am not biased because she is my colleague. There were so many aspects that I liked about Ranjini…
She sang almost all the genres and her versatility were applauded by everybody until the finals.
I really don’t understand how the public cast vote?? Or was it an internal politics played to retain Prasanna or Renu? Probably people count appearance as a factor while deciding?
Or luck constitutes 10% of victory?

Ranjini parted with a happy note though. She was confident enough to tell everybody that she would be into playback singing some day. Lastly she sang “mayya mayya” from the film Guru.

What a bold attempt it was to sing that song!

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Doodle Winner 2009

Doodle 4 Google contest was held this year around the intriguing theme "What I Wish for the World."
Christin Engelberth, a sixth grader at Bernard Harris Middle School in San Antonio, Texas has won the Doodle 4 Google contest this year. She titled her doodle “A New Beginning”.
I remember voting for this title. Did I???
I think yes. Because when I first saw this doodle, it reminded me Darwin’s “Theory of Evolution”.
But christin created this doodle to express her wish that "out of the current crisis, discoveries will be found to help the Earth prosper once more."

When I read the title, the child in me had this thought …..Hey I have drawn enough on this slate…
Ok..lemme erase everything and make fresh drawings..:)
Isn't it nice?

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

I was unwell for the past 2 days. I myself could not understand what was happening within me. Usually when I was unwell, mom asked me so many times”kanna enna ma achu?” I used to hug my mom when I was not okay. So she knows immediately that I am not okay. She knows that I am not a better person in explaining the discomforts and so she would ask all the symptoms like a doctor. Sometimes from the love that she has given me I have even forgotten the next day that I was unwell. Especially when I get to work I forget to eat even if she had asked me to eat any medicines. She used to call me and ensured that I ate everything properly and asked plenty of times if I was okay.
Now, when I am very far away from my beloved mom, sometimes it’s very hard to explain things over the phone. Whenever I have felt low, my sister cracked jokes and made me laugh. Many things like this remind me many instances where mom, dad & darling sis have taken care of me like a princess. I miss them a lot.

My dad always called me princess….When I was living with my parents, my work place was very far away from our home. So usually it was like 8:30 P.M when I was back from work. I will be so tired that I get into the bedroom immediately and would lie down to get some rest. Dad always bought a big 1.5 litres bottle of Maaza and a packet of Lays to kill my unbearable hunger before I ate the dinner.

The other day when I went to buy groceries with my husband, he bought me a Maaza tetra pack. My eyes were full of tears and I was very happy when he told that he understands how much I missed my dad.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

After Rain





A sudden rainfall.
Oddly the sound seemed more melancholy than menacing.
Plethora of thoughts surrounded by the sound.
Slowly the gentle breeze in the dawn was a sigh of relief.
The nature was at rest.
Everything was calm and clear –
It was a peaceful solitude in the best way it can be!


Sunday, May 10, 2009



God chooses a special angel for every child on this earth.
She sings songs for the child, tells the most beautiful and sweet words the child can hear.
She teaches how to speak with much patience and care.
She is the only one to defend even if it means risking her life!
She is the happiest person to see her child grow and rewarded.

I call my angel as “Mommy”.

Happy Mother’s Day.

Friday, May 08, 2009

Success is not what we take it to be

Recently I came across this article. I was very much impressed,especially the last story.
A very good read!

Everyone wants to be successful in life. But there are few who know the elements of success, the factors that go to build up success. Today, success is being confounded with making money, with amassing millions and billions. John D. Rockefeller was such a multimillionaire, to whom success did not bring him happiness. His biographer tells us that by the time Rockefeller was 53, his life was a wreck. He was the richest man in the world and yet he was miserable! He was sick – physically, mentally and emotionally. All his millions could not make him happy.

Rockefeller turned a new leaf. He stopped accumulating wealth, and began to give away his wealth. Thus was born the Rockefeller Foundation, which sponsors and supports education and medical care throughout the world. John Rockefeller re-wrote and re-defined the meaning of success for himself. Some people equate success with power and position. A fond mother said to me that her son had achieved success in life at the young age of 23. He had been appointed as the Managing Director of a large industrial concern. But a few days later, I heard that the young man was rude to his colleagues and unpopular with his workers; that he had a foul temper, and that he became a victim of gambling and drinking. Would you describe this young man as being successful?

Many of us tend to equate success with visible material acquisitions. There was a young woman who wore expensive clothes and diamond jewels; her handbag was stuffed with currency notes, she drove about in a Mercedes. Everyone agreed that she was indeed a woman who had achieved success in life. But then this young woman had problems too. She was one of the unhappiest women on earth. Her husband was constantly running after other women and paid no attention to her. Would you call this young woman successful?

Jay Gould, the American millionaire, amassed great wealth. But as he lay dying, he lamented, “I suppose I am the most miserable man on earth!” There is no happiness in wealth, but there is considerable wealth in the experience of happiness.

What is the definition of success? What is true success? I believe that true success is in some way or the other, related to inner happiness and peace of mind. It has been rightly said that if you lose your wealth, you lose but little. If you lose your health, you lose something. But, if you lose your peace of mind, you have lost everything!

Outer things, external achievements, are not the yardstick for success. Power, prestige, position, social influence, higher degrees awarded by universities – all these are outer things. They only touch the fringe of life; they don’t enter the depths within. A man may have all this, and yet he may be intellectually barren; he may be emotionally unbalanced, spiritually sterile. Would you call such a man successful?

What then, is success all about? One can define success as the ability to be happy and make others happy; the ability to love and be loved; the ability to remain in peaceful harmony with oneself, with those around you and with God’s cosmic laws.

Let me tell you the story of such a man, who achieved success in life.

You may have heard of Dunlop tyres. They were manufactured by George C. Dunlop. As a young man, Dunlop was far from wealthy. But he genuinely cared for an old woman, who was an invalid. She was confined to a wheel chair, and George would often propel the chair for her. He found she suffered severe jolting and discomfort, when steel rims of the wheel chair moved on rough terrain. He wanted to do something that would reduce her discomfort.

In those days, a new material was much talked about. People were beginning to marvel over its flexibility and softness. It was nothing but rubber! Dunlop took strands of rubber and wound them around the steel rims of the wheel chair and found that this smoothened considerably, the movements of the wheel, giving a great deal of comfort to his invalid friend. Thus began the story of Dunlop tyres – first designed to bring comfort to an invalid’s life, they made George Dunlop a wealthy man many times over!

This is what my turban master has said “If you can do anything, do some good to other” in Sri Sai Satcharitra, Ch X.

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Past few weeks have been very busy at work. But I love my work so much and I do it with passion.
Though work week has been very busy most of the times, I desperately find time to do things that I like. Yesterday I got reminded of some of my school teachers. I remembered the wishes that my primary school teacher had sent for my marriage. She was a very nice person .Both my sister and I have visited her after she got retired and when she got settled in a different city.

When I think of her, there are few things that remind me about her. In schooldays she used to be a very strict person. May be she is one even now. She always showed a difference between bright and dull children. One of my classmate was a below average student. He was not mentally fit for various reasons in his life. (I meant “not mentally fit” and not mentally retarded). He was very slow in grasping things. During exams he had a very tough problem of forgetting what he read. Some of us felt bad for him and used to help him as much as we could. This teacher always scolded him, has thrown hard substances like stick over him and has many times has even told that he is fit for nothing. She has even abused him for his appearance and all those words of underestimating a person. This continued for almost 6 years. There was no sign of improvement neither from my classmate nor from the teacher’s attitude. When we were in 9th grade, my classmate was forced to leave the school and we never came to know what happened to him later.

Most of us liked the teacher but we did not like the way she treated some of the classmates. So out of all the good deeds she did, this is one of her attitude that disturbed us.


Years later, one of my childhood friends happened to meet this so called dull, gullible classmate. She told me that he scored very good marks in his 12th grade and was pursuing his engineering. We were very glad to discuss about his effort to reach that point. It also reminded us of the teacher who had underestimated this person forever.

A teacher always scolds a student out of best interest for her students. But should not do that to the extent that one feels worthless in life.

I had a mathematics teacher who was a source of inspiration for most of the children. His approach of teaching was amazing. He made wonders by making a student score high marks who had struggled with mathematics for years.

He created a difference in many students life with his tremendous patience to ensure everybody understood the concepts. He was never tired of repeating.
I tried very hard to find whereabouts of my mathematics teacher. I came to know from one of my friends that he passed away.Till date I have only best things to remember about him.

Given a chance I would want to be like my mathematics teacher.
So far my attempt in teaching kids, training fresh grads has been very successful. But the opportunities for that are very narrow in my current work place.

Sometimes random memories like this and experiences from the past remind the old lessons learnt.