குட்டி குறும்பு [11] - ஜெயலலிதாக்கு கல்யாணம்...

பைக்ல ரௌண்ட்ஸ் போகும் போது, தானேஷ் கேள்வி கேட்டுக்கிட்டே வருவாரு. எங்களுக்கு அவன் கேள்விக்கு பதில் சொல்லவே நேரம் பத்தாது. போன தடவை வெளிய போனபோது , முஹுர்த்த நாளா போச்சு.

ஒரு மண்டப வாசலில் ,  ஒரு பக்கம் கல்யாண பொண்ணு மாப்பிள்ளை போட்டோவும்  , இன்னொரு பக்கம் சி எம் போட்டோவும்  போட்டிருந்தாங்க. தானேஷ் ஒரு சைடு மட்டும் பார்த்துட்டு சொன்னான் அம்மா "ஜெயலலிதாக்கு கல்யாணம்..."


தானேஷ் அப்பா உடனே கேட்டாரு , " மாப்பிள்ளை யாரு தம்பி ? " அது தெரியல , போட்டோ போடலை ன்னு பதில் வந்தது. 
 
"கல்யாணம் என்றாலே ஜோடியா தான்  போட்டோ போடுவாங்க. அந்த பக்கம் பாரு. இந்த பக்கம்  சி எம் போட்டோ, அவங்க வாழ்த்துக்கள் தெரிவிக்குது." அப்படின்னு சொல்லலாம்னு பார்த்தா , அதுக்குள்ள பைக் ரொம்ப தூரம் வந்திடுச்சு. சொன்னா அந்த பக்க போஸ்டரை பாக்கணும் , வண்டிய திருப்புன்னு அடம் பிடிப்பான் என்பதால் பேசாமல் இருந்துவிட்டேன்.



-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

 

grow mosquitoes to kill mosquitoes (???)

What an innovative idea. In addition(?) of taking steps to killing mosquito and keep environment clean , corporation is going to take steps to produce sterile mosquitos.

More details here

--Dhanesh Amma

upside down screen display - ctrl Alt up arrow shortcut in XP

Deepak was sitting on my lap, when I was checking my emails. He was watching songs in parallel.

He started to press keys in keyboard and my screen display got turned up upside down. Mouse cursor would also turn down and movement was the opposite.

It took some time for me to get mouse control in reverse direction and find cause for it.

ctrl alt up arrow shortcut with XP has done the job. I had used the UP arrow when he had pressed ctrl and alt simultaneously.

Pressing the ctrl alt up arrow again got the screen back to its position.


--Dhanesh Amma

குட்டி குறும்பு [10] - அம்மா ரேகை உடைஞ்சு போச்சு...

தானேஷுக்கு கொஞ்சம் பயம் அதிகம், அதுவும் ரத்தத்தை பார்த்தால் அழுதுடுவாரு. ஒரு தடவை உள்ளங்கையில் ஒரு சின்ன கீறல் காயம். மருந்து போட்டு சமாதானம் செய்தோம்.  அடுத்த நாள் மறந்துட்டாரு. அதற்கடுத்த நாள் , அழுகிற மாதிரி முகத்தை வச்சுட்டு என்கிட்ட ஓடி வந்தாரு.

என்ன ஆச்சு என்றதும் , அழு குரலில் " அம்மா ரேகை உடைஞ்சு போச்சு..." என்றான். எங்க காமி என்றதும் உள்ளங்கை விரித்து கட்டினார். அந்த காயம் சரியாகி , பழைய தோல் ஒரு நூல் போல எழுந்து நின்றது.

கையில் இருக்கும் லைன் என்னவென்று கேட்டதற்கு , ரேகை என்று சொல்லி கொடுத்ததை வைத்து, தோல் உரிவதை பார்த்தது இல்லாததால் ரேகை உடைஞ்சு போச்சு என்று சொல்லி எங்க எல்லாரையும் சிரிக்க வச்சுட்டான்.

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

Dhanu's friends...

I had been with Dhanesh to drop him in school this morning. I accompany him twice or thrice a month. They allow kinder garden parents alone to enter premises.

He wanted me to come inside campus and drop me in his class and wave bye to him. On reaching classroom, I used to handover the bag to him and he will go inside class. He will sit in his desk and say bye to me.

But today, his classmate got his bag from me and took it to his desk. I do not know her name. He had not talked to us about girls in her class too. From the way , the little girl got the bag and kept in his desk , I could see that she does that for other classmates too.

For generations women had been doing the entire house chores. They were pampering the men at home. It could have been a point that little girl does this type of tasks to her family members at home.

Why women still don't get their girl child out of these stuff?

--Dhanesh Amma

காதல் - சுவை

காதல் - சுவை  

கண்டதும் உவர்ப்பு
கனிந்ததும் இனிப்பு
ஊடலில் கார்ப்பு 
பழகியதும் புளிப்பு
வேற்றுமையில் துவர்ப்பு
தோல்வியில் கசப்பு 


-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

Antartica song lyric from thuppakki...

A line from Antartica song in movie thuppaki (lyric by madhan karki)

Nee Penguin'na Pen Dolphin'na
yen Kuzhambuthu Konjam

I have always admired penguin and dolphin. They look cute.


During my childhood days I used to think, how does the pair identifies each other when it comes to birds and animals. All look similar to our eyes.



But to poets , even penguin and dolphin look similar... just because they rhyme similar. For rhyming purpose (pen) is added to dolphin though it is explicit that he talks on pen penguin and pen dolphin.

--Dhanesh Amma

குட்டி குறும்பு [9] - ஏன் , எதற்கு , எப்படி ...

   ஏன் , எதற்கு , எப்படி ... என்கிற கேள்விகள் , தானுவிற்கு  எப்பவும் பிடித்தவை..

  சமீபத்தில் அவன் கேட்ட கேள்விகள் சில.

1 அம்மா கோவில்ல சாமி ஏன் எப்பவும் பாட்டு கேட்டுகிட்டே இருக்கு ?
        *** எல்லா கோவில்லயும் ஸ்பீக்கர்ல பாட்டு போட்டிருந்தார்கள் ***

2  ஏ சி பஸ் , ஏ சி கார் மாதிரி ஏன் பைக்ல ஏ சி இல்லை ?
        *** பைக்ல போகும் போது வெயில் தாங்க முடியலையே பா  ***

3  நான் பாட்டி தாத்தா வீட்டுக்கு போயிருந்த போது நீயும் அப்பாவும் கல்யாணம் பண்ணிட்டீங்களா ?
        *** ஆல்பம்ல  தன்னோட போட்டோ இல்லியே  *** 

4 அப்பா அந்த கார் அஞ்சு ரூபா வா ,பத்து ரூபா வா இல்ல ரெண்டு ரூபா வா ?
        *** பணம் கொடுத்தாதான் பொருள் கிடைக்கும்னு கத்துகிட்டோம்ல  *** 

5 அம்மா எதுக்கு கரண்ட்டு கட் ஆகுது ?
         *** அவசியம் தெரிஞ்சுக்க வேண்டியது தான் *** 

கேள்வி கேட்குறது ஈசி , ஆனா பதில்... ரொம்ப கஷ்டம்... வேண்டாம் அழுதுடுவேன்...

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

வெண் குடை

மழை நீர் துளிகள் கண்டதும்
      நீ உயிர்த்தாய்
உன் அழகு தோற்றம் கண்டதும்
      நான் சிலிர்த்தேன்

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

Color Chiks / Easter Chicks

This happened long back.. must be when I was 6 or 7..

When I happened to see a man having about five dozens of colorful chicks in a closed basket, I wanted to buy set of them, one chick of each colour. But my parents told, all would turn them white in two weeks time. 


I came to know that these chicks are given artificial colours. I was under impression that those were painted with color after it was born. Later came to know that in some places, the eggs are injected with the dye and the chicks are born in the color of the dye. Even this dye in not permanent and the feathers eventually come in the normal color of the bird.

Many places have made it illegal to dye baby chicks as it makes more people impulse buy them, and eventually dump them when they are no longer baby chicks.
 
I had not seen those stuff after that. Recently I came across a man with similar basket with colourful chicks inside in Chennai. 

It is still found in market. If my son had seen that , he would have pestered us to buy.

--Dhanesh Amma

குட்டி குறும்பு [8] - தாத்தா உன் வயித்துலயும் பாப்பா இருக்கா ?

தானேஷுக்கு அப்போ ரெண்டு வயசு. அவங்க அத்தைக்கு பிரசவ நேரம் நெருங்கிய சமயம். அத்தை நடப்பதை போல நடந்து காட்டி எங்களை சிரிக்க வைத்து கொண்டிருந்தான்.

வெளியில் சென்ற தாத்தா உள்ளே வந்ததும், தாத்தாவையும் அவர் வயிற்றையும் பார்த்து " தாத்தா உன் வயித்துலயும் பாப்பா இருக்கா ? " என்று கேட்டான். உள்ள பாப்பா இருக்கிறதால தான் தாத்தா வயிறும பெருசா இருக்கு என்று அவனாக புரிந்து கொண்டு கேட்டான்.

இல்ல தம்பி. கேர்ள்'ஸ் வயித்துல தான் பேபி இருக்கும் பாய்ஸ் வயித்துல வராது என்றதும் , ரொம்ப சந்தோசப்பட்டான். 

பாவம் சின்ன பையன் பயந்துட்டான் போல. எங்க தன் வயித்துலயும் இந்த மாதிரி பாப்பா வந்துட்டா என்ன பண்றதுன்னு..
 
-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

Marriage and Arundhati star

Hindu marriage ceremony has a event where bridegroom shows Arundhati to his wife.

Arundhati is one of the double star. It is attached to the star Vasishtha. Double Stars (visual binaries) are two stars that move around together gravitationally bound to each other.


Like this double Star, the couple are expected to be together for ever.

Hmmm.. Good one.. But stars are possible for view only in the night or rather after evening and till dawn. But people of this generation do see the star under the hot sun after tying the holy knot.

I know.. readers might be interested what could have happend at my case..
[Our marriage happened in a hall. We could only see the concrete ceiling with white paint only. We had so much of rituals to be followed and people were not ready to go out to open sun to have a look at the sky.  What's the use ? No one would be able to identify a star when the sun is glowing hot. I was asked to look at the ceiling and my uncle asked if i see the star.. i smiled back. he told Arundhati is not just one star you will see two stars. I know you cannot see in ceiling, but the myth is followed that we see the star and should live like the couple. I nodded my head. ( that I understand the point) ]

When everybody knew that a star could not be seen in a ceiling why do they ask us to see?

They could have taken a video of the twin stars and show us at the time in an electronic gadget.

In fact they just tell us about the star and ask us watch out in evening.



--Dhanesh Amma

Life style changes... (part 2)

Read: Life style changes (part1) here.

Our life has entered to more comfort zone with the arrival of machines for everything. like cleaning , washing , cooking etc. We were able to save considerable amount of time. With the arrival of ready made food available at the market, life has gone more comfortable even. 

We have got disadvantages too with the life style changes. It has become a culture , cook for a day and eat for more days since we are storing things in fridge.Pediatric for my son said, please give fresh cooked food for kids. Don't give old items stored in fridge.

My father was telling, he did not have any vaccines those days. True. Even I did not have these many vaccines which my kids are having. Check out here for the current list of vaccines for kids in India.

Now, they are working on vaccines for cancer. Next generation will have more number of vaccines. Kids are the ones to suffer with the lengthy vaccine list.
Still, with the combined vaccines for multiple diseases like the one explained here , list is becoming comparatively less.

We can have a more comfortable life, if people give importance to keeping surrounding clean. But who really cares of it. People think, as long as their house is clean, they are safe. 

People blame the corporation staff for not doing their duty properly because of which lot of flies and mosquitoes are there. But who throws those garbage on street ,drainage and on road, instead of dust bin ?

They say health is wealth. It is possible with proper food and  clean surrounding.

P.S: Post completed with Part 2 with the above punch line

-- Dhanesh Amma

குட்டி குறும்பு [7] - விளையாட வா அத்தை...

 தாணு , அப்பா , அத்தை சாப்பிட்டு கொண்டிருந்தார்கள். வழக்கம் போல தாணு பாதி வயிறு நிரம்பியதும் எழுந்தாச்சு.

அத்தை சாப்பிட்டதும் ஊருக்கு கிளம்பனும். அதனால அத்தை சீக்கிரம் சாப்பிடு என்று சொல்லி கொண்டிருந்தான். எதுக்கு தம்பி என்றதும் , என் கூட விளையாட என்று சொன்னான்.

அப்பாவும் , அத்தையும் பொறுமையாக சாப்பிட்டு கொண்டிருந்தார்கள். அப்பா , அத்தையிடம் சாப்பிட்டதும் கிளம்பலாம். லேட் ஆக போகுது என்றார்.

அதை கேட்டு , இரு நிமிடம் அமைதியாக இருந்த தாணு, "அத்தை அப்பாகிட்ட சாப்பிட கொடுத்துரு . அப்பா சாப்பிடட்டும். அது வரை நாம விளையாடலாம்" என்றான். 

அவனால் சாப்பிட முடியாத போது , நானோ அவன் அப்பவோ அதை சாப்பிட்டு வேஸ்ட் பண்ணாததை கவனித்து , அத்தை சாப்பிடாட்டி வேஸ்ட் ஆகிடும்னு அப்பா சாப்பிடுவார்னு சொல்லிட்டான். ஆனால் அத்தை இன்னும் சாப்பிட்டு முடிக்கவில்லை என்பது அவனுக்கு புரியவில்லை.

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

Crow calls

A crow was making a call , when Dhanu was chatting with me. He told me, "Ma, crow is making sound"

I replied him, "Yes. It is calling another fellow crow by making sound as 'kaw kaw'"

I was thinking that, he would then ask me a question, why it is calling another crow.
However he responded, "No amma. you are wrong. it is not calling 'kaw kaw', it is calling "Kraw Kraw".

He was not ready to accept crow will call as kaw kaw. He said, "listen carefully again. It is saying 'Kraw Kraw' only.

In fact, during my child hood days, I too have observed and thought , crow is making sound as Kraw, may be that's why it is referred as Crow in english but we tamilians refer as Kagam or Kakka in tamil.

On a second thought, Instead of  "kaw kaw" what if we call as "kraw kraw" ? I am sure crow would be right in front of us to pick the food. Readers may give a try if you are not ready to believe me.

Crow has different types of calling based on situation. refer to the link here  for hearing its different calls

Conversation with Dhanu on Crow made me recollect the happenings during my school days.

 We used to feed crows and few became regular visitors to our home at morning 8AM when we have breakfast. They would keep calling till we open back door and give food. We give some snack be it a papad or  biscuit when food is not ready or available at home.

Appa would keep food for crows and sit for breakfast. When we have food, few crows would come and empty the food we had kept. It would keep calling us to give more. Appa , who does not will to move out to keep food, would toss out the idly pieces. Some crow would pick and fly away, some would pick and sit on compound wall and eat.  One crow would just pick the food , come to door and sit on the wooden frame on floor and eat. I am sure it was ready to come inside the room and dine with us.

We cannot just like that identify a crow from group of crows, But crows can identify us easily.

The crow had well acquaintance with us and became a pet bird. It would not fear to come near us and pick the food from our hands. I even shot a photo of my sister feeding that crow.

--Dhanesh Amma

gmail and dots

Do you guys know that gmail does not treat the dot as a character in the email address ?

say if your email address is : my.pet.name@gmail.com

then mypetname@gmail.com , mypet.name@gmail.com , m.y.p.e.t.n.a.m.e@gmail.com are all your email address only.

check out the support link from google for details.



--Dhanesh Amma

Whom you want to be?

This happened when I was doing seventh standard in school. One day class teacher while about to leave the class in evening asked  "like whom you want to become?" There would be one or two in a class, who would be right there to speak out an answer when teacher asks a question. Immediately one girl said, i want to become engineer.

Teacher then told, My question is not what you want to become, but "like whom you want to become". Students were quiet for few seconds. Teacher then asked us to think and come with an answer on the question tomorrow.

next day after prayer, she asked us to answer in order from first bench. I had only couple of students before me as I was also seated in front bench. One of the disadvantage with the first bench. You cannot listen to rest of class answers and change your answer in last minute if you find others answer better.

First one told, I want to become an engineer like my father, next one told, I want to do service like Mother Teressa, It was my turn and  I answered "I want to become teacher" . My class teacher told, i want you to point a person.

Ah I know. My mother is a teacher, few of my aunts were teachers. I have also observed some dozen teachers right from my kinder garden. But why I should I point someone ? I don't have to become a teacher like them. I have my own style. But this teacher wont allow me to sit, unless I point some person. So I told , I want to become a college teacher like my mother. Teacher said "ok". Hmm.. I can sit now. My turn is over and I can watch my fellow classmates.

There came many answer pointing some one for  scientist, astronaut , sports person, singers, musicians etc etc. Towards the end, one tall girl said " I want to be myself". Class teacher smiled and said. This is what I was looking for. One should have their own originality. We should not try to be like others. But be unique as yourself. Then she asked the student who gave this answer to her. Classmate kept smiling and said again and again that she is telling of her own. I don't know if it is true or not, or the teacher believed it or not, that's off the topic.

When I was about to complete my degree I understood that teaching is not my cup of tea. Few suggested that teaching is best suited for females, fixed working time and summer vacation etc etc and I should consider doing MPhil or MEd. I did not want to do those. I had an option of becoming Research Assistant  and take up teaching to students. However my resume was rejected as I did not furnish the degree certificate/ provisional certificate for attending interview. That closed the option of me teaching for students temporarily too.

I respect the teaching profession and teachers.

On this teachers day, I pray God for the well being of my beloved teachers.

--Dhanesh Amma

குட்டி குறும்பு [6] - பெட் , பில்லோ இருக்கா அம்மா ?

சென்ற வருடம் இதே சமயம் , தீபக் என் வயிற்றில் ஆறு மாதம். தாணுவின் சின்ன உலகத்தில், அம்மா அப்பா என்ற இருவரை தவிர மூன்றாவதாக தம்பி அல்லது தங்கை உண்டு என்பதை நாங்கள் அவனுக்கு சொல்லி கொண்டு இருந்தோம்.

உனக்கு தம்பி பாப்பா வேணுமா இல்ல தங்கச்சி பாப்பா வேணுமா என்றால் எப்பவும் தம்பி என்றே பதில் வரும். ஒரு நாள் பாப்பா என்ன பண்றாரு என்று கேட்டான். நான் பாப்பா தூங்குது. சின்ன பாப்பா இல்ல ரொம்ப நேரம் தூங்கும் என்றேன். உடனே "உள்ளே பெட் பில்லோ எல்லாம் இருக்கா அம்மா ? " என்றான்.

ஒரு விநாடி யோசித்த நான் , இருக்கு தம்பி. உள்ள மெத்து மெத்துன்னு தான் இருக்கும் என்றேன்.

எப்படி எல்லாம் யோசிக்கிறாங்க இந்த காலத்து பிள்ளைகள்..

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

tenant vacated

This is after post of my entry about unpaid tenant to our home. He has vacated our house a week back.

Infact not only vacated our home, but also from the world. The creature was a small rat (sundeli) and he had been caught in the trap while attempting to eat the coconut piece.

 He was quiet a nice fellow. Did not give much work for us to clean the trap. Soft attack and hence it looks the creature is sleeping. He became food for a crow the moment we throwed him on the road.

Below is the picture captured , fellow captured in trap.

--Dhanesh Amma

Introducing sports to kids

We started to introduce sports activities to Dhanesh one by one. We showed him the badminton racket and shuttlecock in native.

He immediately jumped and said "hey two kosu bat".

We had been using Electronic-Mosquito-Swatter / Electronic-Fly-Swatter since Dhanesh was a toddler.  The "Mosquito Bat" rather we call it as "kosu bat" (nativity name for mosquito)


below is the picture for mosquito bat. The one on right is with torch and is Dhanesh favourite as he used to play with it by covering the torch light with hankey.

 It took some time for him to understand that it is a sport item. We demonstrated how to play.

He wanted to play with that , but the bat was tall enough as him. Initially, he had bit tough time to play with.  Too early to play badminton at the age of three. Still he went on to play as he had experience with swatting using the mosquito bat.

Picture Courtesy:  from Google images. 

--Dhanesh Amma

குட்டி குறும்பு [5] - அம்மாக்கு வழி தெரியாது...

ஒரு வருடம் முன்பு, நாங்க வீடு மாற்றி , புது வீட்டில் வசிக்க ஆரம்பித்த சமயம் நடந்த சம்பவம்.

ஒரு நாள் மாலை, அருகில் இருக்கும் கடை செல்ல தீர்மானித போது , தாணு நடக்க மாட்டேன் , பைக்ல போலாம் என்றான். ரெண்டு தெரு தள்ளி இருக்கும் கடைக்கு பைக்கா  என்று யோசித்தவர் , சரி என்று பைக்கில் செல்ல முடிவானது.

கடை வாசலில் பார்கிங் செய்ய விரும்பாது என்னை மட்டும் அனுப்பினார். தாணு அவங்க அப்பா கூட ஒரே கதை. நான் திரும்பி வந்து பைக்கில் உட்கார்ந்ததை கவனிக்கவே இல்லை. வண்டி ஸ்டார்ட் ஆனதும் கத்த ஆரம்பித்து விட்டான்.

அப்பா , நிப்பாட்டு . அம்மா இன்னும் வரலை.
அம்மா வர லேட் பண்றால்ல, நடந்து வரட்டும் என்றார் அப்பா.
அம்மாக்கு வீட்டுக்கு வர வழி தெரியாது. கடைக்கு திரும்ப போ...
அப்படியா , பரவால்ல தம்பி நாம வேற அம்மா வாங்கிக்கலாம். வீட்டுக்கு போலாம் இப்போ என்றார்.
எனக்கு வேற அம்மா வேண்டாம் . இந்த அம்மா தான் வேணும். திரும்பி கடைக்கு போ என்றான்.

அதற்குள் வீடு வந்து விட , பின்னால் இருந்து இறங்கி அவன் முன் சென்று சிரித்தேன்.

தாணு என்னை பார்த்த பார்வை.. பைக்ல அமைதியா உட்கார்ந்துட்டு , என்னை டென்ஷன் படுத்திட்ட இல்ல என்பது போல இருந்தது..

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா 

Unpaid tenant

Last month, as people demolished and cleaned-up the garden in front of our house , a family of mice entered to our house.We had struggled a lot to send them all out except one.

That mischievous creature is well settled and enjoying the life in all the room. We see them running from kitchen to bedroom and to the bathroom. So far it has spoiled couple of books too. We need to catch him before he starts to spoil our dresses and bedsheets in cupboards as the wooden cupboard has a gap and today the moment I opened the door, he/she jumped out of it and ran away in a fraction of second.

We tried the capturing device using a piece of coconut to catch him red headed.

Next day we saw coconut was not there, but the culprit had escaped. Uhh.. it looks the mice is saying "catch me if you can..."


Now the fellow is staying in our house, eating our food and having a comfortable stay for more than a month, but not bothered to pay us rent.

From the way it appears, looks like moonjuru eli , which is a vahanam of Lord Ganesha. People are telling this creature visiting home is good and we are not supposed to kill it. Visiting is okay, but he is visiting outside and staying in our house. We are not completely sure if it is moonjuru eli. Also to our bad luck,  if it makes one of shelf as labor ward, we will soon have a family of mice in our home. It once happened in my native ten years back. A rat used my old notebooks as bed and gave birth to half dozen ones.

Already we have lot of tasks in the to-do list, but this one has taken high priority now.

We cannot send him out and be relaxed unless the bathroom wooden door hole is sealed. It will come back how many times we send him out.

Our goal is to catch him. Lets see how long it's going to take..

Picture Courtesy: Google images.

--Dhanesh Amma

Life style changes... (part 1)

  When I was a kid, breakfast/dinner food would mean idly, dosai , upma , pongal. Those delicious chappathi kuruma and poori masala would be prepared occasionally. We considered it as feast. (Note: No pictures posted , as I don't want to make it a feel that of cookery blog by posting food pictures.)

But as days moved on, for the next generation, chappathi and poori went as a routine item and noodles and parotta were considered special. Now after the arrival of pizza and burger, those food we cherished and enjoyed became a normal food.

Doctors are saying, those pizza and burger are not much nutritious and only high in calories and cause danger to future generation if consumed frequently.

We have to make kids understand that those food are to be had occasionally and not as a regular part of meal frequently.

Okay. At-least parents are there to tell their kids. But how about cattle ? Those poor creatures cannot speak and they have to eat what ever their masters provide.

I have seen cattle eating grass, dry grass (vaikol) , and all grains , soy, corn etc..  But these days cattle which are grown up in the city are fed with cooked rice (the no-price one [subsidized completely] which is given by the Government ) and the spoiled vegetables got at cheap rate from market and peeled of skin of fruits and vegetables etc.

sad to see those creatures too. They also roam in city and eat the food items thrown in the streets. People throw them in carry bags and these creatures dont know how to open it up, so they chew it with the cover. It is said that these bags are getting deposited in animals stomach.

Human , by their life style changes affect not only themselves, but also these poor creatures.

P.S: As title indicates part2 expected in near future.. 


Update: Read part2 here

-- Dhanesh Amma

குட்டி குறும்பு [4] - நானும் வரேன் பரீட்சைக்கு...

இரு மாதம் முன்பு, அத்தை ஒரு நாள் காலை சென்னை வந்ததும், ஒரே சந்தோஷம் மருமகனுக்கு. அத்தை நாம விளையாடலாமா என்று கேட்டான். பரீட்சைக்கு போயிட்டு வந்து உன்கூட விளையாடுறேன் கண்ணு என்று சொன்னதும். அப்போ நானும் உன்கூட பரீட்சைக்கு வரேன் என்றான். உடனே அத்தை , சின்ன பசங்க எல்லாம் பரிச்சைக்கு வர கூடாதுன்னு சொன்னங்க தம்பி என்றார். உடனே "ஏன் ?" என்று தாணு கேட்க , அவங்க அப்பா , அத்தைக்கு கேள்விக்கு பதில் எல்லாம் சொல்லி கொடுத்திருவ இல்ல , அதனால தான் என்றார்.

தாணு அதற்கும் அசராமல் , அத்தை நான் உனக்கு சொல்லி கொடுக்காம , அமைதியா உன் மடியிலேய உட்கார்ந்துகிறேன் , என்னையும் கூட்டிட்டு போ என்றான்.. பாவம் அவன், அத்தை அப்பாக்கு தான் சங்கடமா போச்சு. சின்ன பிள்ளைகள் வரகூடாது, பிடித்து வைத்து கொள்வார்கள் என்று சமாளித்து பரீட்சைக்கு சென்றார்கள்...

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

Travel Vaccine Recommendation for South Africa

 Two years back, my friend got an offer to work on-site. It was to South Africa.

At first he was in idea to take it up, but on knowing that we have to get yellow fever vaccine couple of weeks before travel and mosquitoes are high in South Africa , he preferred to say offshore.

Picture Courtesy:  from Google images. 

I was thinking, when Africa and South America has this yellow fever vaccine for outsiders, Asia (of course India) should have something else.

On checking internet, I could find a list posted by a Doctor.

http://dr-razavi.blogspot.in/2006/03/travel-vaccine-recommendations-for.html

The list would be quite scary to some, but to me it was like a breeze.

We had born in this country, had most of these vaccines and enjoying our life.

--Dhanesh Amma

DD's favourite game

Deepak is  crawling around the house, however Dhanesh runs. Still, what ever Dhanesh takes,  be it a paper/pencil or toy/gadget or  tricycle/bicycle, Deepak demands for it.  When Dhanesh gives the stuff he has in his hand to Deepak and picks up a new one, Deepak is right behind him for grabbing that too. There was no item where both could work together.


I was under impression that it would take a year still for Dhanu & Deepu to play together without grabbing from each other. I was wrong.


They found a common game to play together. Guess what ? It's the electrical two way switch along the cot side.


Deepak would hold a hand to the wall and use the other hand to knock the switches. Dhanesh would be right near by, to switch it ON if Deepak switches it OFF.


This has become their favorite time-pass event.


below is the picture clicked when DD's [ Dhanesh & Deepak  in short ] were busy with their play.

What? checking if the image is not loaded correctly ? Image loaded correctly. It is a blank image.
DD's DD [Dhanesh Deepak 's Dear Dad in short] felt not to put kids image on web and I too felt the same.


We might change our decision in future. So for now, picture is left to your imagination.


--Dhanesh Amma

Marriage and Plantain trees

In past generation , marriages did not happen in a mandapam / party hall. The event was happening at the bride's home. If the house was not big enough to hold all the relatives, a pandhal was made in the street and marriages happened.  The bride would then be taken to the groom's house by the groom family. My parents wedding happened this way.


Later, people started to book a hall for conducting marriage. Still, After marriage relatives would then be visiting the bride & groom house. So a pandhal was kept in front of the house, with the welcome board. This would be easy for the visitors to identify the house. lot of spaces would be used in front of house for the visitors to sit and chat under the roof.


When streets were very narrow or houses on the Highway road, no chances of putting big pandhal. Two full grown plantain tree would be tied on entrance with the serial lights welcome board. Full-grown plantain trees are used as they are Eternal tree of evergreen plenty for endless generations!


Recently I came across one house in Chennai in my neighborhood. I could not stop laughing. They had covered the plantain tree with the white sac. Picture shown below.



Reason is obvious. Our area is fully occupied with residential who have cattle's at home. They would be walking along streets all day. To avoid those cattle's damaging the plantain tree's trunk, they have covered it with sac.




Either the people at home, wanted to avoid bad luck due to cattle (they call it as bad sagunam if the tree fell down before the function)  or wanted to safe guard the plantain tree's trunk as it can be used for some other reason post function. At least they believe humans and left the banana part. Else they would have covered that also with sac.


On seeing this, something came to my mind.. Instead of tying a plantain tree and covering with sac, as they rent the welcome board and serial lights, better they rent a plantain tree made of plastic / thermocol. that way cattle wont damage it.


--Dhanesh Amma

Nagerkovil & Nungu sarbath...

 During my childhood days, when we visited to my native, I heard about nungu sarbath. It is available only in the district of Kanyakumari and may be you will find such sarbath stalls till you reach tirunelveli.


 I had tasted it once, the blend of sarbath with ice and nungu was really good. When i informed my best half (yes.. not just better half..) about it, he wanted to taste that.


Below is the picture of sarbath we took during our recent trip there.

Sarbath was horrible. Mainly the reason was, we saw how it was prepared.


We were under impression that they will take the nungu from the big shell , peel of skin and mix it with sarbath and smash it with some sort of smasher or mixer. But to our shock it was not done that way. The lady just took two tablespoon of peeled off nungu pieces with the water and poured them into tumbler directly and pour a tablespoon of sarbath and filled up the remaning space of tumbler with water. mixed it with spoon and handed it to us.


A sarbath without ice.. uhh.. people would say , the chilli bajji if consumed after it cooled down will taste like a sweet cake . How can you drink a juice like this without the chilling. The lady said ice was over.  The water she had in shop was also warm due to the hot climate.


Ultimately we ended up having something which was purely our bad luck. Dhanesh appa emptied the cup as he does not have the habit of wasting food though it does not taste good.


When I was discussing this with my sister and she was telling that there are stalls which will sell fruit juice. Its not the normal fruit juice. I guess it is a mix up of fruit juice. I'm not sure if that is also mixed with sarbath. I said I don't want to try that. By that time, my mother responded that it will be tasty, she had it years back. I replied, to my mom. It tasted good years back like the nungu sarbath I had. Now that will also be horrible. I don't want to try that.


Tips:


* Never look into the process how it is prepared be it the road side stall or hotel. you would not like to eat it if you do so.
* Ask for requirements clearly before placing an order. A Sarbath could not be had without ice, like we have other fruit juices.


-- Dhanesh Amma

குட்டி குறும்பு [3] - வயிறு என்கிட்டே சொல்லுச்சு...

தானேஷ் , தீபக்  ரெண்டு பேருக்கும், டிபன் அல்லது சாப்பாடு என்றால் ரொம்ப கஷ்டமான ஒன்று. அதே நொறுக்கு தீனி என்றால் ரொம்ப இஷ்டம்.

தீபக் இன்னும் பேச ஆரம்பிக்க வில்லை. அதனால் சாப்பாடு என்றால் வாய் இறுக்கமாக மூடிக்கொள்ளும். ஆனால் தானேஷ் , சமத்தாக கொஞ்சம் சாப்பிட்டு விட்டு போதும் என்பான். இன்னும் கொஞ்சம் சாப்பிடு என்றால் வயறு புல்ல் என்பான்.

அப்போ பிஸ்கட் , ஸ்நாக் கேக்க கூடாது என்றால் , தலைய குனிந்து வயிற்றின் கிட்டே வைத்து பின் நிமிர்ந்து , அம்மா வயிறு என்கிட்டே சொல்லுச்சு , தோசை சாப்பாடுக்கு உள்ள இடம் இல்லியாம். ஸ்நாக் அப்புறம் தண்ணி குடிக்க மட்டும் கொஞ்சம் இடம் இருக்காம். அதனால கொஞ்சம் ஸ்நாக் அப்புறம் தண்ணி கொஞ்சம் ஓகே வா அம்மா ? என்றான். நான் அவனை ஓர கண்ணால் பார்த்து சிரித்ததும் , ஓகே சொல்லு அம்மா என்றான். பதில் சொல்லும் வரை விட மாட்டான். அதனால் ஓகே சொல்லி விட்டேன்.

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

Human Evolution

Ten years back, I found the below type of pictures on the internet for Human evolution.

Five years back, I received one such below , as IT went boom and life is much around with computers.

A year back, life became go-mobile and people started doing all the stuff with smart phones..

I thought people are going crazy.. creating these type of images, as and when a new technology come into place... but... 

last week, I came to see a picture which is completely different from the above two pics.  It had lot of messages in it. Its about man becoming obese by eating too much. The article covered the line saying, earth's resources are being utilized by people, where it is supposed to be consumed by the double the size of current population.

The above picture is surely not good for the human evolution. Eat healthy, at the same time, one should keep body fit.


--Dhanesh Amma

குட்டி குறும்பு [2] - அத்தையை கல்யாணம் பண்ணிக்கிறேன்...

இரண்டு நாள் முன்பு , எங்க திருமண நிகழ்வை டி.வி. யில் போட்டு கட்டினோம். தாணுவிடம் சும்மா கேட்டோம். தம்பி , நீ யாரை கல்யாணம் பண்ணிக்கிற ? உடனே பதில் வந்தது.. "தீபக் தம்பியை கல்யாணம் பண்ணிக்கிறேன்". உடனே நாங்க , பாய் ஒரு கேர்ள் தான் கல்யாணம் பண்ணனும் என்றோம்.

அடுத்த நொடி பதில் வந்தது. "அம்மா நான் உன்னையே கல்யாணம் பண்ணிக்கிறேன்". நாங்க சிரித்து விட்டு சொன்னோம். அம்மாக்கு தான் கல்யாணம் ஆயிடுச்சே. அமைதியாக யோசித்தவன் கேட்டான். "ஷென் அத்தைக்கு கல்யாணம் ஆயிடுச்சா?" நாங்க இல்லை என்றதும் , "அப்போ நான் ஷென் அத்தையை கல்யாணம் பண்ணிக்கிறேன். "

அவங்க அப்பா உடனே, தம்பி நீ அத்தைய கல்யாணம் பண்ண முடியாது , வேணும்னா அத்தை கல்யாணம் ஆனதும் பிறக்கும், அத்தை மகளை கல்யாணம் பண்ணலாம் என்றார். தாணுவுக்கு புரிந்ததா இல்லையா என்று தெரியவில்லை. அவனிடம் ஒரு அமைதி மட்டுமே நிலவியது..

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

குட்டி குறும்பு [1] - நீ தான் என் பிரண்டு...

தானுவை, தன்னோட குட்டி பிரண்டு , என்று தான் தானேஷோட அப்பா எப்பவும் சொல்லுவாரு.

 போன வாரம் என்கிட்டே பேசும் போது தாணு  "அம்மா நான் இப்போ பெரிய பையனா வளர்ந்துட்டேன். அதனால நீ தான் என் பிரண்டுன்னு சொன்னான்". புல்லரிச்சு போச்சு..

தோளுக்கு மேல் வளர்ந்தா தோழன் என்பார்கள். ஆனா இப்பலாம் பிள்ளைகள், ப்ரீ.கே.ஜி. படிக்கும் போதே  பெற்றவர்களை பிரண்டாக பார்கிறார்கள்.

ரெண்டு நாள் கழித்து, லேப்டாப்பில் கார்ட்டூன் போட மாட்டேன் என்றவுடன்,  "போ.. நீ என் பிரண்டே இல்ல. உன்னோட நான் பேச மாட்டேன்" என்றான். கொஞ்ச நேரம் கழித்து போட்டு விடுறேன் என்றதும் , "அம்மா நீ குட் கேர்ள் அம்மா. நீ தான் என் பிரண்டு" என்றான். நீ என் பிரண்டு இல்லைன்னு தானே சொன்ன என்றதற்கு, "தெரியாம சொல்லிட்டேன்..வந்து.. மறந்து போய் சொல்லிட்டேன். நீ என் பிரண்டு தான்" என்றான்.

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

A Grinder in the stomach

This happened, when my sister was a pre-schooler. On a weekend,  myself, my father and younger sister were chatting at the living room after lunch. My sister asked a question to my Dad. What happens to the food we eat?


My father wanted to explain her in easy way. Hence told that , there is a grinder inside stomach. It will grind and digest the food. She then asked if the grinder will be running for ever. Father told, yes. so that what ever you eat every day it keeps on grinding and digest the food.


 She seemed to be satisfied with the answer. I was aware of digestion and its after process,but I had never thought to know or to see , how the food is digested. However, on hearing about grinder, I was curious enough to see how that grinder will be. But that is not possible. I cannot just like that cut open a human body to see its inner parts.


 I left the curiosity to know on it. After a year or two, I got to know about the inner body parts in science subject and the teacher showed the picture of liver, pancreas, small intestine and large intestine etc., I was looking for a grinder like stuff there, but nothing of that sort was present. The teacher also did not spell out a word of grinding or grinder..


Ouch.. My father had told us something which will be easy for understanding. I had taken it as such.


P.S :  I recollected this incident , when our son asked similar such question like my sister.


-- Dhanesh Amma

Travel by Winch

 I do not remember when exactly this happend. Surely before my pre-teen. A plan was made for hill temple visit.
 The temple of Lord Muruga in Palani. (100 km southeast of Coimbatore and a similar distance northwest of Madurai)


 As most kids do, I was also questioning my mother about temple. She was explaining me that it has three modes to reach top of hill.


 1) The stair case way
 2) The slope way
 3) The Winch way


 As I had seen the stair case way in Rockfort temple @ Trichy, I was questioning about the other two. My mother told the slope way will be easy way than stair case and added that elephant of the temple cannot walk up via stair case so this path would be used. The Winch, it is like a small train which will go up the hill on a track. Having seen only a train running on the ground, I was quizzed how it will reach the top of hill.


 I should have got enough patience to wait for the day, to see the Winch in person and then to travel. But still, I could not keep shut. I kept on asking questions.


 How Winch will work ? My mother told, must be like the normal train , this will also move up on a track. (I was thinking, some answer to keep me shut....) she added, I have also not seen it in person. Lets see on that day.


 I got doubt. Since the Winch on hill is going vertically up, will it not fall down? My small brain understood that some sort of gravity pull is needed to keep the Winch on track. But I did not know how to ask on it clearly. I asked her is it safe as Winch is going up the hill. My mother got irritated by my question. Yet she said, it is similar to the train. Don't fear.


 Well, I belong to the yesterday age. My mother did not have any photo or video to show me how it works. I was worried, how safe the Winch journey would be.


 The day arrived and we reached Palani hills and all were set to travel in Winch. There were two tracks. On one track , Winch was on top of hill and on other track, Winch was waiting at bottom of hill for us to board. We used Winch to reach top of hill. Prayed God. For the return trip we chose the stair case, as one Winch has already started to move towards ground, other Winch was on way to reach top of hill and more over a big queue was waiting to board.


 The story does not end here. I had to brief up about the Winch experience. All were thrilled to travel by Winch. After all seats are filled in, Winch started moving up. I was quiet excited and enjoyed the journey.


 When the Winch was half way up, it stopped. We all were seated in the Winch for more than fifteen minutes, but it did not move up. People were discussing, power down or some technical issues.
 My mother gave a look at me and murmured at a low voice, you questioned if it is safe etc., because of which only it has got problem and Winch stopped. How come my casual question can be a reason for Winch to stop half way?. I wanted to ask, but I kept quiet. Winch, however started after thirty minutes halt.


 On reaching the top of hill, every one got down and moved towards temple. By that point only I noticed the big and strong string tied up with the Winch. Oh!! This is what I was asking for. Had my mother explained me these at first telling me what a Winch means, I would not have asked further questions.


 Seven years back, they have started the rope car in Palani temple. Not sure when I'll have visit to temple in near future. If we plan for such trip, our son will surely have same set of questions on Winch and Rope car. Well, his questions will be answered immediately. Whenever he asks about something which he had not seen (stuff like parachute, gliders etc) his dad connects laptop to internet and explain him with photos and possible YouTube videos.


 Lets see, we don't know when Lord Muruga @ Palani temple has fixed his visiting time with us.


 P.S. : I have not provided any photos, as we did not have camera at that time to click on the Winch. If you haven't seen Winch , Lot of Palani Winch pictures are there on web. You might search it for yourself if needed.


 -- Dhanesh Amma

Just a note...

Twenty four hours a day is just not enough for me, being a working mom with two kids.


One would say, with all the electrical and electronic gadgets @home things are quiet easy. Still I had to do parallel tasks most of time, so that I get sufficient time for spending time with family and have buffer time for unplanned events that fall in and to have personal time for myself too...


Of course, I can cut off an hour sleep to get the sufficient time, which I can not do , for the following reasons.


1. I am late to bed and because of that I can't afford to wake up early morning.
2. I don't get continuous six hours sleep having an infant and preschooler at home.
3. Last but not the least, I enjoy to sleep and relax.


There are many ways we can effectively save time in our daily chores, be it cooking or cleaning or shopping or working or reading or .. lot of or's with the tasks. Still I am quiet busy these days....

coming to the point.. having been busy at home and office, no time to scribble here..


--Dhanesh Amma

Home Appliances without electricity usage

When I was a kid, Most of families had all traditional items at home for meeting the home needs.


As days moved on, people started to buy items which works with the help of electricity. Listed below are few among them.

Tube light

Fan

Table Fan

mixie

Grinder 

Vacuum Cleaner

Washing machine

Slowly, the traditional items started to disappear in many houses as it was occupying considerable amount of space in the room.




Now, that we are  seeing frequent power cuts, people started using inverter. The domestic inverter does not support the power consumption of heavy items like grinder , washing machine etc.


Well, why to go for inverter, when we still have items which works without electricity. It is good that we grab them from the market before it run out of stock.


Pictures provided for easy reference folks...

 

 Candle Lamp

 Panai Olai visiri 

 Traditional mixie (Ammi kal)

Traditional Wet Grinder (Attan kal)

 

Traditional Dry Grinder (Ural with Ulakkai)

 

 little ural for grinding spices

 

Broom for cleaning  

Washing stone for clothes

Pictures got by searching in Google images

I know.. In the fast moving world, we can't afford to spend hours of time in using these stuff. 

This is just a post to record the items which were used in the past generation (of course still used in current generation too.. :-)

--Dhanesh Amma

Bed time stories

Our little darling at home, sleeps after hearing bed time stories. Every day he used to ask for new stories.





But these days his story line is fixed. We have to tell him tom and Jerry story only. He picked up this as he liked the tom and Jerry cartoon much.



















His favourite episodes: Tom & Jerry with Duck


Every day we have to tell new episodes. But how do we tell new episodes without watching them? So we started our own Tom and Jerry episode.


Tom and Jerry Attending school...
Tom and Jerry going to beach...
Tom and Jerry travel in train to native for vacation...
Tom and Jerry visiting the Park...
Tom and Jerry doing shopping... etc etc..


The stories tied up with his activities.. It went on for a week and he understood the story line. On knowing story is coming to end, he started to modify the story line by a twist and making us to drag the story.


Upon completion of the lengthy story, he will ask for next story. I told him that I forgot and need some time to think and tell. Suddenly he told; Amma, I will tell a story. You listen and tell me back the same story. Clever boy. He said one tom and Jerry episode and asked me to repeat it. We have to tell it back, with the same story line as he said. If I make mistake he corrects it too. Oh no. This is tough.. A bed time story at 11pm and that too without making mistakes..


--Dhanesh Amma

Atbroker.exe application error

I use remote desktop to connect to a PC with Windows 7 . Got the Atbroker.exe application error followed by black screen. Could not view the desktop despite closing and reopening the session. Same error throw-ed out.


On surfing net, got a solution which works most of time.


Press "CTRL-ALT-END" (the equivalent of “CTRL-ALT-DEL” for remote sessions) followed by ESC / starting Task Manager from the options listed. - It worked for me.


When it doesn’t work, log in with another user and kill the session with the issue or reboot the pc.


--Dhanesh Amma

Vaccines List - Chennai (Year 2012)

Age	Vaccines	What it prevents
Birth	BCG	Tuberculosis
	OPV - Zero Dose	Polio
	Hepatitis B - First Dose	A kind of Jaundice
6 weeks	DTP/DTaP - First Dose	Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis
	OPV+IPV - First Dose	Polio (Oral + Injection)
	Hepatitis B - Second Dose	A kind of Jaundice
	Hib - First Dose	Pneumonia, Meningitis, Bacteremia (Haemophilus Influenzae Type B)
	PCV - First Dose	Bacterial diseases causing pneumonia, meningitis etc., (Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine)
	Rotavirus - First Dose	severe diarrhea
10 weeks	DTP/DTaP - Second Dose	Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis
	OPV+IPV - Second Dose	Polio (Oral + Injection)
	Hib - Second Dose	Pneumonia, Meningitis, Bacteremia (Haemophilus Influenzae Type B)
	PCV - Second Dose	Bacterial diseases causing pneumonia, meningitis etc., (Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine)
	Rotavirus - Second Dose	severe diarrhea
14 weeks	DTP/DTaP - Third Dose	Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis
	OPV+IPV - Third Dose	Polio (Oral + Injection)
	Hepatitis B - Third Dose	A kind of Jaundice
	Hib - Third Dose	Pneumonia, Meningitis, Bacteremia (Haemophilus Influenzae Type B)
	PCV - Third Dose	Bacterial diseases causing pneumonia, meningitis etc., (Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine)
	Rotavirus - Third Dose	severe diarrhea
6 months	Influenza vaccine	Flu
9 months	Measles	Measles
1 year	Varicella	Chicken pox
15 - 18 months	MMR	Measles, Mumps, Rubella
	PCV Booster	Bacterial diseases causing pneumonia, meningitis etc., (Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine)
	Hib Booster	Pneumonia, Meningitis, Bacteremia (Haemophilus Influenzae Type B)
	DTP/DTaP Booster	Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis
	OPV+IPV Booster	Polio (Oral + Injection)
2 years	Typhoid (Revaccine every three years)	Typhoid
> 2 years	Hepatitis A (2 Doses at six months interval)	Hepatitis A - kind of Jaundice
5 years	OPV + IPV Booster	Polio (Oral + Injection)
	DTP/DTaP Booster	Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis
10 years	DTP/DTaP Booster	Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis
	HPV	Human Papilloma Virus causing cervical cancer