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

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

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