Flying Fan toys

Kids get bored easily. They need variety of toys every day. Recently I got these below toys at nearby shop, which would make kids busy for a while.

They were called as flying fan.

Hold the fan between your palms with the fan blades on top.,Give a twist to the stick by moving your right hand and release to see the fan to raise top and come down with swirl.

Hold the stick with your left hand and use your right hand and push the small piece upwards to see the fan raising up with full speed and slide down with swirl.

--Dhanesh Amma

Video Games

This post is written as SPGR has invited me to blog on it..


I was introduced to video games in Trichy Super Bazaar by my dad. The place which will be covered by most of the men and boys. I had not seen girls in that shop when ever i visited.  The shop appearance was well described by SPGR already. I think the shop charged one rupee for an hour. A long wait for the turn and my dad used to play in it. I was given chance to play towards the end of one hour duration.  I had played the shooting game there.After few such visits, I got bored in long waiting and not interested to be among crowd of boys, stopped going with my dad.

Then my father got us a brick video game as shown in the above picture. We have played in this for hours. 

When we got the computer at home, we installed many games and played in it. Mario, Prince, Aladdin Dave , Wolf , that's all I remember now. Out of these games, I had completed Aladdin and Wolf.

Out of above listed games, Aladdin is my favorite. The game is colorful and enjoyable one. 

Later, I have got chances to play games online. My favorite is book worm. 

After a while, I was introduced to Zynga's FarmVille,  which I lost interest in playing as it required co-players. 

I forgot to mention that I have played many games in the mobiles I had so far. Below are some of them which I liked.

 snake game     

galaxy balls (a type of brick game)

      ninja's fruit cut game

Now , I have option to download and play games in mobile, but for sake of Dhanesh and Deepak, I am forced to uninstall them after few attempt of playing.

These games are addicting, that it eats hours of our time. 

Now, the gaming zone at the big shopping mall suck thousand rupees in just one hour, as each game work only for few minutes and they charge 25 to 50 rupees for each game. They call it as gaming zone. Actually they should rename it as Casino, as most of them are lottery based and issue tickets based on numbers. The tickets cannot be redeemed as cash, but for toys or added to account for playing the games again. 

-- Dhanesh Amma

'துப்பாக்கி'யா, 'கத்தி'யா

நேத்து கத்தி படம் பார்த்தேங்க... படத்த பத்தி கமெண்ட் சொல்லனும்னா அது மொன்ன கத்தி தாங்க. 

துப்பாக்கி ஹிட் ஆனதாலே கதிரேசன்  கத்தி-யானார், இருந்தாலும் வெறும் டைட்டில் வச்சு படம் ஓடுறது இல்லியே...

நான் படத்த பத்தி பேச வரலைங்க...படம் பார்த்த இடத்தை பத்தி தாங்க பேச வந்தேன்...

சென்னைல, "வான நடை" மாலில் உள்ள தியேட்டர்ல தாங்க படம் பார்த்தோம்.  ஒரு டிக்கெட் 120 ரூபாய் . டிக்கெட் கவுன்ட்டர்ல பாக்ஸ் புல்லா 10 ரூபாய் சாக்லேட் வச்சிருக்காங்க . மூணு டிக்கெட் கேட்டு 500 ரூபாய் கொடுத்தா மீதி 140 ரூபாய் தராம , 120 ரூபாய் , இரண்டு  10 ரூபாய் சாக்லேட் தராங்க. சாக்லேட்  வேண்டாம் பணம் தாங்க என்றால் , சில்லறை இல்லை 60 ரூபாய் கொடுங்க என்கிறார். சில்லறை கொடுத்து டிக்கெட் வாங்கினோம் .

டிக்கெட் காண்பித்தால் தான் , தியேட்டர் உள்ளே விடுவார்கள். உள்ளே ஏகப்பட்ட செக்யூரிட்டி செக்கிங் . பெண்களுக்கு தனி செக்யூரிட்டி செக். ஹன்ட்பாக் செக் பண்ணனும் என்றார்கள் . 

நான் கூட துப்பாக்கி , கத்தி இருக்கானு செக் பண்றாங்கன்னு நினைச்சேன். அனால் கேமரா , ஸ்நாக்ஸ் இருக்கான்னு கேட்டாங்க. இல்லைன்னு சொன்னதும் விட்டுட்டாங்க. 

குழந்தைகளுடன் செல்வதனாலும் பிஸ்கட் கூட அனுமதிப்பது இல்லை. அட்லீஸ்ட் வாட்டர் பாட்டில் அனுமதிக்கிறார்கள், அதுவும் குழந்தைகளுடன் சென்றால். 

சின்ன  வயசுல அப்பா அம்மா கூட , 70 எம் எம் ல படம் பார்க்க போகும்போது ஒரு கவர் நிறைய தீனி கொண்டுபோவோம் . அதை தீர்த்துட்டு பிரேக் டைம்ல அப்பா கிட்ட  பாப்கார்ன் , சம்சா , முறுக்கு எல்லாம் வாங்கி வர சொல்லுவோம். நம்ம ராஜ்கிரண் பாடுறது போல "அது  ஒரு அழகிய கனா காலம்..." தாங்க...

ஆனா , இப்போ உள்ளே ஸ்நாக்ஸ்  அனுமதிப்பது இல்லை (டிக்கெட் விற்பவன் கொடுக்கும் சில்லறை(?) சாக்லேட் தவிர). உள்ளே விற்கும் ஒரு பாப்கார்ன் கப்  150 ரூபாய் . ஒரு பப்ஸ் 70 ரூபாய் 

எதிர்காலத்தில், டிக்கெட் வேணும்னா , ஸ்நாக் கண்டிப்பா வாங்கனும்னு சொல்லுவாங்க போல. 

டிக்கெட் வாங்குவதில்  இருந்து , உள்ளே விற்கும் ஸ்நாக் என்று எல்லா இடத்திலும் , நம்மிடம் இருந்து பல மடங்கு பணம் பெறுகிறார்கள். ஆனாலும் நாம் ஏதோ இலவச  சேவை பெறுவது போல கஸ்டமர் கவனிப்பு. 

உன்னை யாரும் இங்க வர சொல்லலை. நீயா தான் வந்த. இஷ்டம் இருந்தா இரு, இல்லனா போ அப்படிங்கற நிலை தான். ஆனாலும் கூட்டம் அள்ளுது பெரிய ஸ்க்ரீன்ல படம் பார்க்குறதுக்கு.

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா  

Vaikalama ulagathoda oru bet...

Recently I saw an advertisement which made me to laugh out loud.

The lady was telling that their fairness cream was best. They are betting against world countries best fairness creams and their product won the bet.

She was telling that, we are betting against best fairness creams of Dubai, Singapore, Japan and results was much impressing with their product. First I got a doubt, why fairness cream are necessary in a country like Japan, where most of them would be fair enough.

Then I told myself, may be those country are manufacturing and selling product in India. By telling it repeatedly in advertisement, they want to force in viewers mind that their product is the best fairness cream.

Particular fairness cream is not new. It exists in market for decades. When I was a little girl, some of my aunts were using it regularly. Other relatives would ask them, if it really works. Those aunts have replied saying that it does and also suggest others to buy and use it. Now after me observing them after a decade, I would conclude that fairness is not provided by the cream at all. May be it provides a coating to the face and we might look little bright while using it.

By nature, we south Indians are neither fair nor dark. Why don't people allow us to be ourselves. They just want to make us feel guilty that we are not fair enough and force to buy and use something which will do nothing. 

Recently they have started to advertise fairness cream for men also. When my aunt's used the fairness cream, Uncle's at home would say that it is just waste of money. I don't know what Uncle's of this generation are saying now.


-- Dhanesh Amma.

குட்டி குறும்பு [13] - பாட்டி உன் வயசு என்ன ?

லீவில் ஊரில் இருந்த  போது , தானேஷ் , பாட்டியிடம் "பாட்டி உன் வயசு என்ன ?"  என்று கேட்டான் .

நான் ஆர்வமாக இருந்தேன் . அம்மா என்ன பதில் சொல்வார்கள் என்று. உடனே பதில் வந்தது. "பொண்ணுங்க  கிட்ட வயசு  கேட்க கூடாது " 

உடனே நான் தாணுவிடம், அம்மா வயசு உனக்கு தெரியும் இல்ல என்றேன் . ஆமாம் என்றான்.

நான் பிறந்த போது பாட்டி வயசு முப்பது. இப்போ என் வயசையும் , பாட்டியின் அந்த வயதையும் கூட்டினால் , பாட்டியின் வயசு தெரியும் என்றேன் .  தாணு நோட்டு பென்சில்  எடுத்து கணக்கு போட்டு கண்டு பிடிச்சிட்டான்.

உடனே, யாரு  கேட்டாலும் , அம்மா,  பாட்டி வயசு சொல்லக்கூடாது சரியா என்றேன்.

ஷப்பா, பேபியானாலும்  பாட்டியானாலும் பொண்ணுங்க  பொண்ணுங்க தான் .

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

Craft Work - 7

Use out of waste: A cat made from old discarded CD's.

-- Dhanesh Amma

Craft Work - 6

This was done by Dhanesh as practice for his Origami competition to be held at school.

Note: This "candy box" made without scissors and glue.

-- Dhanesh Amma

Craft Work - 5

Use out of waste: An octopus made from nine old black socks.

--Dhanesh Amma

Craft work - 4

Use out of waste: A chain made from the juice straw. A favourite pass time for Dhanesh at home.

-- Dhanesh Amma

DD and Me

When TV started entering people houses, every one would know what DD means.

It's nothing but DoorDarshan, India's national broadcaster. Every one would talk about what's this week special movie over the weekend. DD News, DD  programs etc.

I had also waited for watching tamil songs which would be played after the list of Hindi songs and the turn of Tamil movie to be telecast-ed in the best state language movies

Now, this generation does not knew about this channel as lots and lots of other channels have come.

DD of DoorDharshan has been replaced by TV anchor DD of Divya Dharshini.

I recently had a thought of changing my blog name Dhanesh Amma to DD's Mom , being a mother of Dhanesh & Deepak. Immediately felt, It would be referring Divya Dharshinis mom. On the other hand, Motherhood was got first by Dhanesh only. So thought , let the blog to remain as Dhanesh Amma itself.

--Dhanesh Amma

Craft work - 3

Teddy made from the cleaning foam. A play toy for sometime at home for Dhanesh and Deepak before it is put to actual use.

--Dhanesh Amma

World sparrow day- March 20

We are happy this year to save a little sparrow which was fallen from roof. View details here

--Dhanesh Amma.

Craft work - 2

Use out of waste: Pen stand made from Thermocol packing box

--Dhanesh Amma

New year complements

During the last week of the year 2013, most of the shops will give the new year calender as complements. Either the daily or monthly sheets will be given with the banner for their shop advertisement.

This time, we had been in trichy and went to thambu chetti shop in main guard gate. 

After the shopping is over, we just asked if new year calender is there. The salesman said yes and packed the calender too. 

We reached home and opened it. To our surprise, it was from Kolkata, provided by a rubber company.  It was not helpful for us, as the holidays were mentioned based on the north Indian festival and poojas.

We could have kept mouth shut and come home, than to ask for calender and get a stuff like below

--Dhanesh Amma

Craft work - 1

Use out of waste: Made from vegetables and fruits packing netted carry bags.

--Dhanesh Amma

Sparrows at our home in chennai

Last year I had posted about sparrows at our home, which you can read it here

This year, we had  two great days living with little sparrow at our home. It happened a month back.

One morning, we saw the little sparrow at floor. As usual we thought , it must be dead, as it had fell down from nearly seven to eight feet height, but luckily it was alive. Also , the bird was able to walk and run.

Dhanesh and Deepak were most happy to see it. We tried to give water to bird and try to feed something, but bird did not accept to open the mouth.

After some time, the parent birds came. It started to chirp and fly searching for the missing little one. We were thinking that bird would not identify the little one on floor, but these days sparrows are clever. It found the little one running on floor and started to feed it. The parent birds were initially scared of us, but got courage to remain there, as we are not harming them. Day time passed on , and danger is the night time, as cats visit the balcony. So we placed the little bird on a packing box , preparing a bed for it with torn news paper. Kept it on a height where cat's can't reach.

  Parent bird

Morning we took it out and put that back in floor. Now the bird started to walk and run much better. It had a nice time walking around the balcony.

Around afternoon, the parent bird, came inside our house and chirped to called us. We went out to balcony and saw that little bird was missing. Clever bird, either it thought we took little one somewhere or wanted to help it in finding the small bird.

We searched and found the little one near another balcony and brought it back to floor. Again the bird started to run and move around the places. Since the passage had drainage holes. we kept the bird in packing box. When the parent bird come and give sound, we would take the little one out of box and then parent bird would feed the little one.

once the feeding is over, we would put it back to box. We also gave time to little one for flying. By evening it started to fly a height of a step in a staircase.

same procedure followed for night time as previous day.

The little bird

A video clip of the little bird running

Next day, the little one wanted to go out of house as it found that parent birds are going out after feeding. We had to watch it frequently to bring it back to home and keep it in box. In the evening, we had placed bird out of box for feeding and after some time, when I came out to put it in box, it was missing. The little one was taken out of home by the parents. we could see the parent birds chirping in nearby abandoned place where human movement is not there.

Dhanesh and Deepak were upset to see little bird missing, but we consoled them saying, it has gone with parents, then only it will learn to survive and learn flying.


--Dhanesh Amma.

குட்டி குறும்பு [12] - சிறுவர்களும் இருட்டும்

தாணு முதல் பட அனுபவத்தின் போது நடந்தது இது . படம் ஆரம்பம் ஆகும்  முன் எல்லா விளக்கும் அணைக்கப்பட்டது. உடனே தாணு "அம்மா கரண்ட்டு போய்டுச்சு " என்று சத்தமாக சொன்னான். சுற்றி  இருந்தவர்கள் சிரித்து விட்டார்கள். 

சமீபத்தில் , மதியம்  உணவருந்த ஏ சி ஹோட்டல்  சென்றோம். தீபக் உடனே " அம்மா லைட் போடலை " என்று கூற , அனைவர் பார்வையும் எங்கள் பக்கம்.

லைட்  போட மாட்டார்கள் என்று சொன்ன பிறகே அமைதியானான்.

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா