Sunday, July 29, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
En ularalgal...
On Monday evening I came home after consulting the doctor for a heavy fever of 102.6 degrees F. Shankar was helping a lot. I was feeling very hungry and he gave me "4 Britannia Milk Bikis" biscuits. I had taken a bite.
Everthing started now.... I started telling that this is not "Britannia Milk Bikis" biscuits". It will have the word "Britania" or "Milk Bikis" written on the center of the biscuit. This was having a checked design. This is not that biscuit..I started blabbering all this and strated crying. HE thought I was joking till he saw tears flowing down my cheek.
After this he took 1 biscuit from me. So, again I started crying for that. But, by then i realized what I was doing and started laughing at myself.
Now, everytime I see that biscuit, I cant control my laughter.
Everthing started now.... I started telling that this is not "Britannia Milk Bikis" biscuits". It will have the word "Britania" or "Milk Bikis" written on the center of the biscuit. This was having a checked design. This is not that biscuit..I started blabbering all this and strated crying. HE thought I was joking till he saw tears flowing down my cheek.
After this he took 1 biscuit from me. So, again I started crying for that. But, by then i realized what I was doing and started laughing at myself.
Now, everytime I see that biscuit, I cant control my laughter.
மாதா பிதா குரு தெய்வம்.
One good thing I realized today is -
Our society/cuture/tradition/religion/caste or whatever u call it, has not always been the one with a male-domincated thinking. There was one instance, they told --
Is he called a father, because he is the kid's mother's wife? What else has he done as being a father? He can be called a father only if he has done at least a little bit of what the mother has done. A financial helper, who can buy rice and dhall for the mother to cook is not all that is required.
Only if the father is able to instill a fwwling that I am your second mother, the kid wil cherish the relationship and feel the coziness of the relationship.
Their presence must be felt in their absence also.
Even after a person grows up, he must be able to appreciate the efforts put by his/her parents in bringing him/her up.
Whether u r elated (or) sedated, the people u remember at that moment are the one's who have really made you to what you are today.
At this moment, I remember Amma, Appa and Shankar (no specific order). I can remember a little of Meera (my niece) too!
I wrote this when i was having heavy fever and feeling very lonely at home... :)
PS: Only today I realized that "Matha Pitha Guru Deivam" is a very popular adage in Tamil language. Somehow, I had a thought that it was in Sanskrit.
See this link: "Matha Pitha Guru Deivam" is a very popular adage in Tamil language. This means the greatest "Truth" is the mother (Matha) who gives entry to this world by giving birth to us. Next comes father (Pitha) , because it is the mother who knows the truth about the father and she points us to the father. The father then takes us to the teacher (Guru) and it is the guru who then points us to God (Deivam). Here God represent the "Our Real Self".
Our society/cuture/tradition/religion/caste or whatever u call it, has not always been the one with a male-domincated thinking. There was one instance, they told --
"மாதா பிதா குரு தெய்வம்."A mother does everything that she can (or) even more than what she can, for her kid, what we call by a very simple term "nuturing the kid". But, who takes all the pride et.al..."THE MAN" but he actually is just "a man".
Is he called a father, because he is the kid's mother's wife? What else has he done as being a father? He can be called a father only if he has done at least a little bit of what the mother has done. A financial helper, who can buy rice and dhall for the mother to cook is not all that is required.
Only if the father is able to instill a fwwling that I am your second mother, the kid wil cherish the relationship and feel the coziness of the relationship.
Their presence must be felt in their absence also.
Even after a person grows up, he must be able to appreciate the efforts put by his/her parents in bringing him/her up.
Whether u r elated (or) sedated, the people u remember at that moment are the one's who have really made you to what you are today.
At this moment, I remember Amma, Appa and Shankar (no specific order). I can remember a little of Meera (my niece) too!
I wrote this when i was having heavy fever and feeling very lonely at home... :)
PS: Only today I realized that "Matha Pitha Guru Deivam" is a very popular adage in Tamil language. Somehow, I had a thought that it was in Sanskrit.
See this link: "Matha Pitha Guru Deivam" is a very popular adage in Tamil language. This means the greatest "Truth" is the mother (Matha) who gives entry to this world by giving birth to us. Next comes father (Pitha) , because it is the mother who knows the truth about the father and she points us to the father. The father then takes us to the teacher (Guru) and it is the guru who then points us to God (Deivam). Here God represent the "Our Real Self".
Monday, July 2, 2007
QOTD - 3-Jul-07
I am only one. But I am still one. I cannot do everything. But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything; Let me not refuse to do the something that I can —Edward Everett Hale
ரயில் கவிதை
நான் விரும்பும் பலர் என்னை மறக்க நினைத்தாலும்;
என்னை விரும்பும் சிலரை நான் நினைக்க மறப்பதில்லை!!!
For those who don't understand Tamil, here is the translation:
Even if the people I like, intend to forget me;
I will not forget to think of the people who like me!!!
All is bad; that starts bad...
July 1, 2007......My Birthday
Me and Shankar planned for a trip to Auroville and Pondy. A very eventful day, though nothing was accomplished....
To start the day, we got up quite early at 7 or so..not so bad...prepared rice/sambar/idli (breakfast and for us to pack for the trip)/chutney powder.....then we planned to prepare coconut burfi... To do all this it took some time... i know, we should have planned properly.. we wanted to leave from home by 9-9.30, but, by the time we started from home it was 10.30 and we went to Koyambedu to take a bus to Pondy. The next bus to Pondy (ECR route) was jus about to start..so we got in..The bus started at 11.
In the bus, there was one group of around 10 people..making full commotion and disturbing everyone in the bus by shouting...One elderly person (thaatha) was sitting alone in a 3 seater..and these guys entered and 3 of them wanted to sit together...had they asked thaatha politely to give them this seat and to move to an another empty, he would have surely done that..but, these guys were calling him names, they we calling him as perusu and were treating him with full disrespect. So, he didn't open his mouth and he didn't move from that place also. I liked the was thaatha responded..but, these guys kept on calling names and to maintain his own self-respect or whatever, he moved to another seat.
After this, in the bus they were about to put some movie. These guys started shouting that they wanted to see Shivaji - The Boss..The driver got irritated, switched off the TV and then started to drive. These guys kept on teasing the driver. Driver got fully tensed and was staring at these guys through the mirror...these guys started commenting about that too..so, the driver stopped the bus and shouted at these guys and he started the bus only after these guys stopped shouting. Driver was completely disturbed because of this. He was not able to concentrate on his driving...These guys were also angry that the driver was behaving like this. Some how, after some time the bus went on smoothly..
But, the bus was very slow..there was no traffic at all...We had asked the conductor to tell us when we reach Auroville and he forgot to inform us..he dropped us on the road, some kms away from that place. By the time we reached there, it was 3.30. Then, we enquired a shop keeper there on how to reach Auroville and there was one person (buying veg) and he offered us to drop us till Auroville bus stand in his Ambassador (for free!!!!)...he dint accept the money we offered also!!! We were suprised to see a person like that!!!
From there, we had to go 8kms inside to reach the place..we took an auto. After all this, we came to know that Auroville (Matr Mandir) is closed on Sunday Afternoons....Really don't understand the logic behind having the place closed on Sunday ANs, that will be ideal time for people from outside to come and visit the place...But, as such we went to a gallery there...it was very interesting...
Then, we reached Aurobindo Ashram, Pondy at 5 PM. Meditated for some time [a peaceful place indeed], started from there by around 5.30, got some books from the store there. When i reached Ashram, i had severe head-ache. After meditating for half an hour, I was feeling very fresh!
To get back to Chennai, there were many people waiting, but, no buses...so we got in to a bus that goes till Dindivanam. For that itself, it took 2 hours. Then, had dinner there, quite good...Then got a bus to Chennai. The road from Dindivan to Chennai is one of those best roads we can find, and it was quite a fast drive. But, some where on the highway there was a road block because of a truck that got broke down and stranded there. It took nearly an hour to cross that area.
The situation could have been handled much better. There were some traffic regulators standing there and trying to regulate the traffic. There was one bus, that was trying to over take the stranded truck but, he was not able to move any further, because of the traffic from opposite side. Had, we waited for a few minutes for the traffic from the opposite side to move first, then everyone could have saved a lot of time. Haste really makes waste! The so called traffic regulators could have just put up a board saying "Take Diversion" for the traffic from Dindivanam to Chennai. It could have made things easier and faster.
Finally we took 5 hours to reach Chennai!!!
A very hectic day indeed.
But, whatever we intended to do did not happen. So, we would plan one more trip to Auroville on a Saturday! For those who don't know about Auroville, it is a township created to develop/inculcate unity and humanity.
To find more details on Auroville, please click here.
Me and Shankar planned for a trip to Auroville and Pondy. A very eventful day, though nothing was accomplished....
To start the day, we got up quite early at 7 or so..not so bad...prepared rice/sambar/idli (breakfast and for us to pack for the trip)/chutney powder.....then we planned to prepare coconut burfi... To do all this it took some time... i know, we should have planned properly.. we wanted to leave from home by 9-9.30, but, by the time we started from home it was 10.30 and we went to Koyambedu to take a bus to Pondy. The next bus to Pondy (ECR route) was jus about to start..so we got in..The bus started at 11.
In the bus, there was one group of around 10 people..making full commotion and disturbing everyone in the bus by shouting...One elderly person (thaatha) was sitting alone in a 3 seater..and these guys entered and 3 of them wanted to sit together...had they asked thaatha politely to give them this seat and to move to an another empty, he would have surely done that..but, these guys were calling him names, they we calling him as perusu and were treating him with full disrespect. So, he didn't open his mouth and he didn't move from that place also. I liked the was thaatha responded..but, these guys kept on calling names and to maintain his own self-respect or whatever, he moved to another seat.
After this, in the bus they were about to put some movie. These guys started shouting that they wanted to see Shivaji - The Boss..The driver got irritated, switched off the TV and then started to drive. These guys kept on teasing the driver. Driver got fully tensed and was staring at these guys through the mirror...these guys started commenting about that too..so, the driver stopped the bus and shouted at these guys and he started the bus only after these guys stopped shouting. Driver was completely disturbed because of this. He was not able to concentrate on his driving...These guys were also angry that the driver was behaving like this. Some how, after some time the bus went on smoothly..
But, the bus was very slow..there was no traffic at all...We had asked the conductor to tell us when we reach Auroville and he forgot to inform us..he dropped us on the road, some kms away from that place. By the time we reached there, it was 3.30. Then, we enquired a shop keeper there on how to reach Auroville and there was one person (buying veg) and he offered us to drop us till Auroville bus stand in his Ambassador (for free!!!!)...he dint accept the money we offered also!!! We were suprised to see a person like that!!!
From there, we had to go 8kms inside to reach the place..we took an auto. After all this, we came to know that Auroville (Matr Mandir) is closed on Sunday Afternoons....Really don't understand the logic behind having the place closed on Sunday ANs, that will be ideal time for people from outside to come and visit the place...But, as such we went to a gallery there...it was very interesting...
Then, we reached Aurobindo Ashram, Pondy at 5 PM. Meditated for some time [a peaceful place indeed], started from there by around 5.30, got some books from the store there. When i reached Ashram, i had severe head-ache. After meditating for half an hour, I was feeling very fresh!
To get back to Chennai, there were many people waiting, but, no buses...so we got in to a bus that goes till Dindivanam. For that itself, it took 2 hours. Then, had dinner there, quite good...Then got a bus to Chennai. The road from Dindivan to Chennai is one of those best roads we can find, and it was quite a fast drive. But, some where on the highway there was a road block because of a truck that got broke down and stranded there. It took nearly an hour to cross that area.
The situation could have been handled much better. There were some traffic regulators standing there and trying to regulate the traffic. There was one bus, that was trying to over take the stranded truck but, he was not able to move any further, because of the traffic from opposite side. Had, we waited for a few minutes for the traffic from the opposite side to move first, then everyone could have saved a lot of time. Haste really makes waste! The so called traffic regulators could have just put up a board saying "Take Diversion" for the traffic from Dindivanam to Chennai. It could have made things easier and faster.
Finally we took 5 hours to reach Chennai!!!
A very hectic day indeed.
But, whatever we intended to do did not happen. So, we would plan one more trip to Auroville on a Saturday! For those who don't know about Auroville, it is a township created to develop/inculcate unity and humanity.
To find more details on Auroville, please click here.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Bus-kkul Mazhai
On a Rainy Friday Evening, I was traveling in a Chennai MTC bus - 19B from Thoraipakkam to Saidapet. That bus was one of the supposedly called deluxe buses. They have nice seats with lot of space between 2 seats. Dunno, if it for good or bad. The bus has good lighting with big windows and with nice window panes. Good holders on the railings at the top of the bus for the short people to hold on to. The bus will be really good on those sunny days giving air/breeze (though not fresh) ...
It started raining heavily when we reached near Tidel Park. It was raining, not just outside, but inside the bus also. In the last two rows of the bus it was pouring a lot. They were holding a umbrella inside the bus. It is a brand new deluxe bus, but look at the conditions. The glass pane at the top of the window was loose and had moved down, making way for the rain to enter the bus. They charge us with double the bus charges, but I guess they dont spend a single paisa for maintaining the bus conditions.
It started raining heavily when we reached near Tidel Park. It was raining, not just outside, but inside the bus also. In the last two rows of the bus it was pouring a lot. They were holding a umbrella inside the bus. It is a brand new deluxe bus, but look at the conditions. The glass pane at the top of the window was loose and had moved down, making way for the rain to enter the bus. They charge us with double the bus charges, but I guess they dont spend a single paisa for maintaining the bus conditions.
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