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

What cats and dogs think ?

This is not something new on cats and dogs. This is something which most would have observed.

Some like cats and some like dogs. Very strangely, few like both of these and have in home as pet animals.

During my childhood days, myself and my sister wanted to have pet animals at home, but my mother does not like pets at home. Luckily we got chance to grow cats at home for some time and observed dogs at neighbor house.

Initially I liked cats over dogs, reason was simple. cat keeps the environment clean, where as dog makes it dirty.

Both the animals move close with humans, but what they think is different.

Cat Thinks:
 They pet me, They feed me, They shelter me and they love me. I must be God.

Dog thinks:
They pet me, They feed me, They shelter me and they love me. They must be God.

After observing this, I started to feel Dog was better, as it is loyal to master, showing love and affection, and despite that it helps in alerting in danger etc.

I feel that , humans also think like cats and dogs. Mostly human think like Dogs and few think like Cats.

If you don't agree with me, then you belong to the cat way of thinking :-)

-- Dhanesh Amma

Teddy Collection

I had been silent for past few months. Even now, I don't know what to start or where to start. So Just posting the picture of our teddy collection.

Looks cute isn't it ? out of the teddy's the bigger and small sandal-red teddy are musical ones. They Sing happy birthday music when we press it.


--Dhanesh Amma

My Grand ma

Mostly I get chance to visit my grandma during my summer vacation. She is more of a strict person those days. Grand ma house was on the main road. It is almost house arrest for us, as we can't play outside home. She wont allow us, as there are chances that we would want to cross road and get injured.

I had not shown much interest in visiting my native for various reason. Mainly the water and food taste much differ from the regular one which i have almost for rest of the year. Next we don't get chance to watch tv. Visit to distant relatives house with my parents were a boring one for me.

The other one big challenge was that, grand ma house did not have a bathroom. In those days, men, women and kids have the habit of taking bath in river. So only toilets were present in the houses. Each house was built in traditional kerala type. Back side of house will have open roof. They call it thotti or thodam , roof is kept open with iron rods. Sun light and rain fall into the back side of house.

If women and kids can't go to river means, they take bath in that thodam. I don't prefer bath in river but I can't bath in thodam for one reason. If the main door and next door are kept open, view of road is open and people who walk on road and who travel in bus can see us taking bath.

I would refuse to take bath there, and my mother would convince saying you are still a kid. My grandma who would be busy at home in preparing food for us, would be in kitchen. I would close all door and get ready for bath and my grand ma would keep the door open and go out to buy some vegetables. I would call my mother and ask her to close door again and again. Luckily these issues were solved in couple of years as we started to stay in uncle home and take bath in morning where bathroom were present.

Uncle home had a big water tank. Since we can't go in morning , we packed dresses and would go in late evening after dinner , sleep in night, morning wake up , take bath and come back to grandma house. Grand ma used to convince telling water is sufficient here and we can get bore water from nearby house etc. She was feeling sad that we are not staying with her.

I was happy that I got escaped from open bathroom. Staying in grand ma home or uncle home had not made much difference for me. My grand ma does not spend much time with me. It is not like she does not love to move with grand kids, but she does not have much time for it. She would be busy the entire day with house chores.

I had not known much details about my grand ma other than her name and age. Now I feel , I have missed spending time with her during my child hood days. Now she is very old and she cannot speak much, I do not want to disturb her.

Grand ma is a mother of ten kids. Five boys and Five girls. Hmm.. i used to think whether she had been a  baby making machine or what. The challenge is not just delivering kids, but bringing them up. Surely she had done tremendous effort, in that  no washing machine, mixer , grinder age. That physical work had actually given her strength.

My father used to tell that , they had hen at home and the eggs of hen would be given to kids on rotation. There is no chance of giving eggs to all kids at a time.

Life at her age was not that complicated like now, where we run school after school for admission. Still she gave education to all of her kids and they were settled well.

Gone are the days and it can't be back. I had missed interacting with my Grand ma.

What all I have described here is about my paternal grand mother. Almost my interaction with maternal grand mother is also the same.

--Dhanesh Amma

Sparrows at our home in chennai

The house we stay currently is bit old type. They have the ventilation in balcony walls with holes. The sparrow come and lay eggs there. Their houses are left untouched as they come in for every season.

It is a lovely morning to wake up and hear the chirps of the sparrow. 

Last year, the bird hatched few eggs. We heard the additional count of chirps and the parent sparrow was feeding the little ones. We could see only the head part of the sparrows.

If the bird tries to fly before its feathers are well grown, it fall down from the roof and eventually dies. Last time, one such bird fell down, but survived to live. Parent bird was searching for its little one in nest and kept on making sound. Below is the little bird picture captured at that time.

 

We took great effort in putting it back to its nest, but after half an hour it again tried to fly and fell down.

I also came to know from neighbors that, once fell down means, the elder bird will not take the little one though it is put back in nest. I am not sure how far it is true, but as the bird fell from such height again and again, it is tough to survive.

This year, sparrows were lucky I believe. No such bad incident like last year.

I was lucky enough to see the parent bird watching the little one learning to fly. Below is the captured images.

Little bird                                                                                                                                    Parent bird

--Dhanesh Amma

Dhanu's Policy

I have the habit of telling about Dhanu's conversation with me, to his did. Recently, when i told what Dhanu told me, Dhanu interrupted and told, not to tell dad what he told me.

I was thinking that he was quite shy to hear that. After that in another occation, when his dad told me about his conversation with Dhanu during his bike trip, Dhanu said, I told already not to tell others what i speak.

He also does not like me saying about him to neighbour or others even though it is about his positive side.

Hmmm... I am not sure what he will say when he comes to know about my blog and what ever I have spoken about him. especially the kutti kurumbu series.

I believe, I have some five more years for him to know about this blogging and to understand about his mom and dad blog. By that time, he would have forgotten what he had spoke, when he was a kid. I believe, he would be happy that we have recorded his childhood memories and it would bring up smile on his face when he reads them.

--Dhanesh Amma

நிலா சிநேகம்

மழலை பருவத்தில் அன்னை
அறிமுகம் செய்தாள் உன்னை

நிலா என்று சொல்லி அமுதூட்டினாள்
நம் சிநேகம்  ஆரம்பித்தது அன்று

ஆதவனிடம்  இருந்து  இரவல் வாங்கி
அம்புலி நீ அழகாய் தோன்றினாய் 

தனிமை மறக்க என்னுடன் நடந்தாய்
என்னை மகிழ்விக்க கண்ணாமூச்சி ஆடினாய்

சில நாள் கோபம் கொண்டு
சந்திக்க மறுப்பாய்

சில நாள் மகிழ்ச்சி  கொண்டு
முழு மதியாய் சிரிப்பாய்

இன்றும் அதே சிநேகத்துடன்
என் மகனுடன் நீ... 

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா 

My pizza experience(s)

It happened a decade ago, I was invited for a job treat of one of colleague. It was decided that lunch at pizza hut in nungambakkam. I have heard that pizza's are costly. Of course treat are aimed at high budget of the sponsor-er.

I was kind of thrilled, as it will be my first attempt for pizza. People were discussing, if pizza will give a feeling of full stomach. We were informed that , pizza hut sells the pasta's and it is not that costly as pizza's.

A table was booked and we reached the venue on time. We had a look at the different pasta's and fresh vegetable salads. I did not want to give a try on those, as it was much like different form of noodles and macroni's which i had tasted already. We ordered for pizza and waited for it to come. They gave normal water and asked if we need mineral water. Since people preferred chill water, it was ordered. They then started to keep plates, spoon, fork and blunt knife (This is for cutting the pizza).

There came the most awaited pizza. To be frank, it was not that easy to eat the pizza. I had a tough time in cutting the pizza with knife. The big pizza already had the cut lines for making our work easy, yet the pie cannot be eaten as such with the help of fork. We were struggling with knife and fork.

After few minutes, one of my lady collegue said, I am going to eat with hands. she kept the knife and fork down and took out a pie with hand and started eating. After her, some took her way and others remained to use the fork and knife telling this is how we are supposed to eat pizza.

I forgot to mention about one more important thing here. They had the tomato sauce, chilli flakes and the pepper flakes for adding flavor on top of pizza.


After that, I have had quiet a few experiences with pizza at office for birthday treats. It was ordered and delivered at office. We all had it using hands. It was more like, eating the puff with tomato sauce on paper plate.

Years after that, i got chance to eat pizza out at anna nagar with my spouse. Dhanu missed the chance as he was at native with his grand parents.  Two things were missing there. First being drinking water and second was knife and fork. People either ordered for bottle water or cool drink to replace the normal water.
We wanted  normal water and it arrived after several requests.

Next, we had our next pizza experience in our native, at Domino's. I was surprised when our ordered items arrived. It was all packed in the boxes as I could see when it was delivered at office. They call it as Take away. We can either have it there or take home and eat. In addition to the pizza and pasta's they were selling ice-cream and chocolate cakes. It was a happy dinner time with family member's.

Recently, due to pestering from Dhanu, we had visited pizza hut in kilpauk for dinner. We ordered for "Meal for 2" (1 Medium pizza, 4 pieces garlic bread with a cup of pepsi). At the billing counter , A message was  stuck saying "Sorry, We have stopped giving tomato sauce". We asked them, if we have to pay and buy the tomato sauce. The billing person said, No sir, we are adding the sauce to the pizza so it is not necessary for buying sauce. It was also packed as it is for Take away. No water, fork and knife.

We can have a grand non-veg feast for three, for the amount we had spent for "Meal for 2" pizza. But Dhanu was happy to have the pizza than the Indian food we had bought home for dinner. Still I told him that , pizza should not be had frequently and not to demand as he did this time.

--Dhanesh Amma

Photo of Tom & Jerry

The real tom and jerry cannot replace my favourite Walt Disney's tom and jerry show.

-- Dhanesh Amma

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Here's english version for Non-Tamil readers.

Gandhi Struggled for Country,

Country is Struggling for Gandhi Currency.

--Dhanesh Amma

Movies watched in year 2012

I had watched many movies in year 2012, however below are the ones released in year 2012 and I have watched in the same year 2012.

Amazing spider man (3D)
  Watched this movie in theater with Dhanu. He enjoyed the movie with 3D experience. I was upset as the movie was not the continuity of the previous spider man series.

Naan - Ee
  Watched this movie in our home theater with Dhanu and two SIL's in native. Enjoyed much.

Merina
 Watched this movie in our home theater. Boring one..

Sundara pandiyan
  Watched this movie in our home theater. Ok type.

Naan
   Watched this movie in our home theater. Good
  
Thuppakki 
   Watched this movie in theater with Deepu (his first movie in theater).  Movie was good.

Naduvula konjam pakkatha kaanom
  Watched this in theater with Dhanu and Parents. Much like a budget documentary film. A serious story , but attempted to take in comedy style.



--Dhanesh Amma

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