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Sunday, June 24, 2012

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


Tuesday, June 12, 2012

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

Friday, June 8, 2012

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

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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

Sunday, April 8, 2012

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

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

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

Monday, April 2, 2012

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

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

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

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Pentaxim Vs EasyFive

This post is about the DTP vaccine for babies.


DTP which is supposed to cover the vaccine for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus.


Wiki states below for DTap and DTwP:
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DTaP (also DTPa and TDaP) - is a combined vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis, in which the pertussis component is acellular. This is in contrast to whole-cell, inactivated DTP (aka DTwP)


The acellular vaccine uses selected antigens of the pertussis pathogen to induce immunity. Because it uses fewer antigens than the whole cell vaccines, it is considered safer, but it is also more expensive. Most of the developed world has switched to DTaP, but developing countries continue to use DTP.Recent research suggests that the DTP vaccine is more effective than DTaP in conferring immunity; this is because DTaP's narrower antigen base is less effective against current pathogen strains.


The acellular vaccine is safer to administer in that it causes substantially fewer side-effects (estimated at 90% fewer), which commonly include local pain and redness, and/or fever.


DTaP was developed in Japan in 1981.
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Now doctors suggest the painless injection (Pentaxim), saying the medicine works the same, but the child will not cry in pain, but we have to pay more (medicine is costly). For the comfort of the infant, parents also go for it.




Below is the detail got in internet for the two medicines.
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Both vaccines provide protection against five diseases but there is a difference in the diseases covered.


Pentaxim covers Diptheria, Whooping cough (by acellular component, which adds to cost but has less pain, fever for the infant), Tetanus, Haemophilus influenzae type b and IPV (injectable polio vaccine).


Easy Five covers Diptheria, Whooping cough (cellular component, which is cheap but has more chances of side effects like pain, fever for the infant), Tetanus, Haemophilus influenzae type b and Hepatitis B. Pentaxim is costlier vaccine.


Whichever vaccine you choose, protection MUST be provided for the six diseases. Thus with Pentaxim, you have to give additional Hepatitis B vaccine and with Easy Five, additional Polio vaccine (oral polio vaccine or the costlier injectable polio vaccine). The protection offered for the diseases that these two products offer is comparable but the side effects are somewhat lower with Pentaxim. In summary, you will have to make the decision on the basis of above facts, especially cost considerations.
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Four years back, Doctor at native refused to put Easy Five stating that he prefers to put DTP , HIB and Hepatatis B separately. In a period of four years, new medicines have come and reduced the number of injections to the infant.


Though few vaccines are clubbed to a single injection, every year new vaccines are coming and chart is growing big and bigger.


--Dhanesh Amma

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Hanuman asks Jangiri?

In the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the Hanuman Jayanti is celebrated in the month of Margazhi (normally comes between Dec 15 and Jan 14). I could not visit the temple this time, however saw the picture of deity decorated with jangiri (sweet similar to that of jilebi of north india). I could not post a picture of the same here for reference.

I only have a temple website link which states the same.

[On the day of Moola nakshathiram vadai malai, vetrilai malai and jangiri malai are dedicated devotedly to the God.]

I have heard that vadamalai offering to Anjaneya other than the butter, tulsi etc.Hanuman being the God of strength these vadamalai (full of protein content) is offered and distributed to the people to inherit the strength like Hanuman.

On surfing net, I could see offerings like sandal, coconut, sugarcane, fruits , vegetables and even dry fruits has been used for decorating the God.

Below are few such pictures of Lord Hanuman.

Susindram Anjaneyar in sandhana alangaram



Namakkal Anjaneyar in butter alangaram



Nellai Anjaneyar in coconut alangaram




Anjaneyar in sugar cane alangaram



anjaneyar in vadai, butter , grapes ,cherry & tulasi alangaram



Anjaneyar in vadamaalai alangaram




Anjaneyar in fruits alangaram



Anjaneyar in dry fruits alangaram



But when they started this jangiri?

Could that be because vadamalai is hot and spicy and people wanted to eat something sweet along with it ?

Or this came from north india where people like sweets and this is the one which can be added to a string like maalai ?Anjaneya, english, God, hanuman,

Or sweet stall people wanted to boost up the sales of sweets by this?

Or Lord Hanuman itself wanted to taste sweet and asked jangiri ?

--Dhanesh Amma

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

என்னுள் தோன்றியவை...

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டிஸ்கி:
மனத்தில் தோன்றியதை கிறுக்கி இருக்கிறேன். கட்டுரை போல இருக்கும். விருப்பம் இருப்பவர் மட்டும் படிக்கலாம்.
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கற்காலம் துவங்கி கணினி காலம் வரையில், பெண்கள் படும் அவதிகள் பல. ஆண் என்றால் எப்படி வேண்டுமானாலும் இருக்கலாம். பெண் என்பவள் இப்படி தான் இருக்க வேண்டும் என்பது இன்றும் எழுதாத சட்டம். அவற்றை வகுத்தது பெண்ணா இல்லை ஆணா என்பதை நான் அறியேன்.

உதரணத்திற்கு ஆங்கில மொழியில் இருபாலருக்கும் தனியாக வார்த்தைகள் உண்டு , அனால் சில வார்த்தைகள் பொதுவாக இருக்கும். (e.g widow )
ஆனால் தமிழில் உள்ள சில வார்த்தைகள் பொதுவாக தோன்றினாலும் அவை பெண்ணை மட்டுமே சாடுகின்றது.
* விதவை * மலடி * வாழா வெட்டி * சக்களத்தி * வேசி * ஓடுகாலி * வாயாடி * பஜாரி *

பெண்களை போற்றுவதாக கூறும் இந்த சமூகம் , உள்ளே அடிமைகளாவே வைக்கிறது. பெண்ணை சக்தியின் ஸ்வரூபம் என்று பேச்சளவிலேயே வைத்துள்ளனர். பூமா தேவி , பாரத மாதா என்று கூறுவதாலும் , நதிகளுக்கு பெண்ணின் பெயர் வைத்திருப்பதாலும் , அவர்கள் போற்றபடுவதாக ஏற்க முடியாது.

அடுப்படியில் சிறை பட்டு , வெறும் கேளிக்கை பொருளாக , அடக்கி ஒடுக்கப்பட்ட காலம் கொஞ்சம் கொஞ்சமாக மாறி , இன்று படித்து பல துறையில் சாதனை புரிந்தாலும் இவர்கள் சந்திக்கும் இடர்பாடுகள் பல.

"இப்ப எல்லாம் பொண்ணுங்க வேலைக்கு போறேன்னு சொல்லி வீட்டுல சமைக்கிறதே இல்ல.." - அலுவலகத்தில் உணவு மேடையில் சக ஆண் ஊழியர்  உரைத்த வாசகம் இது. வயித்தெரிச்சல் பிடித்தவர். பெண், சமைப்பதற்கு ஒரு வேளை ஒய்வு கொடுத்து கடையில் வாங்கி சாப்பிட்டால் இவருக்கு என்ன போச்சாம் ? வீட்டில் இருக்கும் பெண்களுக்கு ஒரு நாள் சமைக்க விடுமுறை கொடுத்து கடையில் வாங்கி சாப்பிட வேண்டியது தானே? சொந்த காசை செலவு செய்ய மாட்டார்கள். யாராவது ஓசியில் பிரியாணி வாங்கி தருவதாக சொன்னால் தாய் / தமக்கை / திருமதி சமைத்த உணவை குப்பை தொட்டிக்கு தந்து விட்டு , பிரியாணியை ஒரு வெட்டு வெட்டுவர்.

எங்க வீட்டுக்காரர் ஒரு நாள் உரையாடும் போது சொன்னார் "ஒரு பெண் ஜில்லா கலெக்டரா இருந்தாலும் அவ புகந்த வீட்டுல மாட்டு தொழுவம் இருந்தா அதை சுத்தம் செஞ்சுட்டு தான் உத்தியோகத்துக்கு செல்ல முடியும்". இதற்கு ஆதாரம் என்னிடம் இல்லா விட்டாலும், மறுத்து பேச முடியவில்லை.
பெண்களின் நிலை முற்றிலும் மாறியதாக சொல்வதற்கு இல்லை. இன்றும் பெண் சிசு கொலை முதல் , சமையல் உருளை வெடித்தல் என சம்பவங்கள் நடந்து கொண்டு தான் இருக்கிறது.

நம் நாட்டில் பத்தாவது , பன்னிரெண்டாவது தேர்வில் , தேர்ச்சி விகததில் பெண்களே அதிகம், ஆனால் தொழில் துறை சாதனையாளர் பட்டியலில் பெண்கள் மிக சிலரே. காரணம் சமுதாய சூழல். இருந்தும் தோல்வியை கண்டு துவளாது , விடா முயற்சியுடன் சில பெண்கள் வெற்றி நடை போடத்தான் செய்கிறார்கள்.

பெண்ணே நீ எழும்பு , புது சரித்திரம் எழுது!!!

I'm back!!!

Yippee!!! I'm back after a break.

A pregnant colleague of mine had told that, if she gets chance to talk to God, she will request that, Men should also undergo the process of pregnancy like women.

I was on my maternity leave that time. Oh my God! what happened to her? Women should be happy and proud that they blessed with this ability.

Men can only reach a place of becoming an obstetrician and perform the delivery of a women.

In a movie, comedy actor vivek said, ladies are telling they are pregnant and getting privileges, however there are men , who live with big tummy till their life time.
Big tummy for decade does not make any sense, when compared to a live fetus at womb for a week. It was not a joke actually.

As far as I know, Only male seahorse is blessed to have the gestation of 2 to 6 weeks in its pouch and hatch the eggs.

A sudden thought came to my mind. Would men be ready to undergo the process for 40 weeks like women do? Not at all. May be, few want to try just to explore how it would be and few might be ready to take, if they get good salary package for the 280 days job. (good joke?)

Men are designed to sweat.. they are capable of doing hard things. They cant afford to do tender job. Why to request God for a role change or perform dual role ?

--Proud Women and Mother of two.