Making of 2.0

Dhanesh got his Robot doll through his aunt, which was got in USA on the same year when Enthiran was released. The dancing Robot via spring key mechanism.


Few years back, it stopped working. Though it was not working, it was in our home under assumption it will come back to live one day.


Our hope came to realization by my father, who made it work again. So our chitti reloaded version two point o came live..

watch out the video here.

Now comes the making part... It was the traditional trick of "coconut oil" which gave the life to it.

-- Dhanesh Amma

Science Project - Simple circuit

Dhanesh's science project - Simple circuit done by him.


Simple circuit:

Switch is OFF:

Switch is ON :

-- Dhanesh Amma

Italian Seasoning Ingredients

During the recent shopping, I was looking for an Italian seasoning. While I was looking at some other brand, sales lady tried to push me this one.

Below are the Ingredients

Crushed Chilly

Black Pepper

Oregano

Iodised Sea Salt

White Onion Flakes

Garlic

Basil

Fennel

Lemon Zest

Thyme

Good thing about this is that, they have declared that no MSG added. On the other hand, the bottle is not refillable. I have not tried this yet.

-- Dhanesh Amma

silk sarees

Sarees had been a passion for every south Indian female.. (I hope it is still there too.. though we have lot of modern dresses in market) Learning to wear a Saree is a big deal.. I am sure for most of them, either mother or elder sister would be the first level teacher.

The way now the city ladies wear Saree is different from the way their grandma's wear in their home town. That's a different topic. hence let me come to the topic of silk sarees now.

With regard to the the silk sarees in tamilnadu, it got its name from the location where the sarees were waived.. like kancheepuram , aarani, thirubuvanam etc..

but now a days people look for more and more varieties. Hence the vendors started introducing new patterns in silk sarees and giving new names..

Following are the names i hear these days.. vasthirakala, parampara , samuthriga, vivaha, bridal seven etc.. most of them are traditional silk sarees with additional stone work or added colorful embroideries in the silk sarees.

Not sure from where these sarees do come in. may be the base Saree is waived in the traditional way and designs and works are added in some other place.

I only hope the traditional silk Saree names which Tamilnadu has, does not disappear in due course of time..

Now coming to the making of silk sarees.How do the silk sarees are manufactured?

I had visited my cousin's paternal grandparents house in the village and had seen a room full of silk worm cocoons. Her grandfather was explaining the entire process of starting from the eggs till the worms are grown up and cocoons are formed as shown below.



Then they were sold to the merchants.

Later when I visited the govt. exhibition , I came to see the process of how the cocoons are then being converted to get the silk threads.

The silk threads are then dipped in color liquid and used for preparing the colorful silk Saree.

Chinese are the ones who started the manufacturing the silk sarees.

Below is the pic for the growth of the silk worm to moth.




the silk farmers let the caterpillars that made the largest cocoons, to turn into moths. The moths then laid eggs and the eggs hatched out more caterpillars making even bigger cocoons. Over the centuries, the size of the cocoon has increased and silkworm cocoons are now much bigger than the cocoons of other caterpillars. At least half a mile of continuous thread may come from one cocoon.

I have read in magazines that few ladies, refuse to buy/wear silk sarees, for the cause that a huge set of silkworms are being killed. Hmm.. These people never realize that that are eating non-veg (which is accepted as not killing) and for the beauty cosmetic item they use, many animals are used as testing specimen. In fact by buying the silk sarees we are indeed providing an income for the people who have worked for it.

Wait.. So.. where are you going? to buy silk Saree for your self or your loved ones?

--Dhanesh Amma

anarkali masakali rasakali lasakali (etc etc)kali...

The hot trend salwar's during this festive time for south indian ladies is the maskali.. The Masakali season started last year itself i guess, but it picked up well in the market only this year as the starting prize of the dress was reduced.

every where talks on masakali only. people were also discussing what's there with this name and got information that there is one Hindi song which starts with masakali..

googling gave me updates that it is from movie "Delhi 6" and in which the masakali is the name of the dove in the song. hence this is not the reason for salwar name..

On hearing name masakali, i could recall the name anarkali salwar.. probably they chose the name masakali as it rhymes with the name.

i also remember the anarkali was some dancer during the period of akbar.. on googling i got the info below.

History of Anarkali salwar kameez:

Anarkali ("pomegranate blossom") was a legendary slave girl from Lahore (Pakistan) during the Mughal period. She was a RajNartika. She was a dancer at palace of Great Mughal emperor Akbar. She was supposedly ordered to be buried alive by Mughal emperor Akbar for having an illicit relationship with Prince Nuruddin Salim later to become Emperor Jahangir. Due to the lack of evidence and sources, the story of Anarkali is widely accepted to be either false or heavily embellished. Nevertheless, her story is cherished by many and has been adapted into literature, art and cinema.
Courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehenga

The dance called mujra or mujara was famous that time. Famous dancers at palace of mughal kings dance for entertainment of Mughal kings. So, the dresses were worn by the dancers while mujra dance called as mujra / mujara dresses. Later they got famous by name Anarkali dresses or Anarkali salwar kameez in the rememberance of a great dancer and a passionate lover Anarkali.

(courtesy: http://www.pramanik.in/Anarkali_Salwar_kameez.html )

so now it explains clearly.. all the series of masakali, rasakali , lasakali, etc etc kali's are the series of anarkali type salwar with slight modifications.

They are just making business by giving different name so that it reaches wide market and give huge profit. so instead of having one salwar, people might want to get one in each type (i mean one dress from each of the list of kali's)

so what's your type of salwar for this Diwali??

keep watching this site for a new post on silk sarees..

--Dhanesh Amma

Performance Evaluation

When you take a long time, you're slow.
When your man takes a long time, he's thorough.

When you don't do it, you're lazy.
When your man doesn't do it, he's too busy.

When you make a mistake, you're an idiot.
When your man makes a mistake, he's only human.

When you're out of the home, you're wandering around.
When your man is out of the home, he's on important business.

When you're on phone call for long, you're wasting time.
When your man is on a call, he's on essential conversation.

When you sleep for long, you are irresponsible.
When your man wakes up late, he's really tired.

the list does not end here.. but i don't want to drag it further.. sample is enough. So ending it here..

Well.. this is about the majority case.. If you say , its the other way in your case, just replace the "man" with "woman" and "he's" by "she's"

--Dhanesh Amma

What is a blog?

I recently came across few tamil/english blog sites where i came to know about many people who spend their half of their day in typing and posting contents in blog on a daily basis.

half of them were mainly the catchy news which comes in the news paper or magazines or movie review or about people in media. they just provide link or copy paste the contents.

There are few writers who gain constant readers via this blog/websites. They post their articles in their site and based on the comments from the readers, they modify and publish the books easily.

Blog is a easy way to gain publicity, at least among the people who have access to computers/mobile phone with internet connection.

Have you ever tried to write a article and get it posted in a magazine? you will have to wait endlessly for getting it published.

But this is achieved at free of cost if you have basic knowledge about creation of blog and posting contents.

There are people who are registering their blog in the sites and having meeting with their co blogger. Very funny.

There were writers in the past who want to stay away from other writers and readers. But these bloggers meet and post articles with photos explaining what happened in the meeting.

The life time of some blog sites are also short. They come in, very active for a year or two and disappear.

Now, the blog readers are the ones who waste their time by reading such blogs.

Technology is a boon in few ways, at the same time curse in many ways. It is we who have to use it for boon than to get in to the trap of curse.

Ahh... now that explains why there is no post from me for the past two months.. I think twice before writing something, If it is really worth spending time in typing and posting.

Let my blog be filled with articles which will give some message to readers than just being a source of entertainment.

--Dhanesh Amma