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[Visalakshi Ramani]

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I did not get to see the elderly couple living across the road ever since I returned in July.

I assumed that they kept to themselves as they ususlly do.

The old lady is the one I have nicknamed as Vivek paatti since her only

dialogue is "Eppadi irunthavaL eppadi aagivitten paarungo!"

Thatha was 80+ and would plod along to get vegetable and coconut from the street corner mini market.

I learned two days ago that Patti has had a bad fall in the bath room. Thatha had lifted the heavy paatti ALL BY HIMSELF and got a massive heart attack.

NOW both are with their good natured nephew living 50 miles away from here!

Morals:

1. One to one ratio in lifting women is ONLY when the man is in his late twenties or early thirties and the lady a lissom thin beauty.

2. Never move out of the safety and security of the pretugious senior citizen's complex for flimsy reasons

3. It is wiser to adopt a boy / girl when it becomes certain that a couple cannot have a child of their own.

4. There is nothing wrong in taking help of the neighbours in an emergency.

That is what neighbours and friends are for!

 

[renuka]

I did not get to see the elderly couple living across the road ever since I returned in July.

I assumed that they kept to themselves as they ususlly do.

The old lady is the one I have nicknamed as Vivek paatti since her only

dialogue is "Eppadi irunthavaL eppadi aagivitten paarungo!"

Thatha was 80+ and would plod along to get vegetable and coconut from the street corner mini market.

I learned two days ago that Patti has had a bad fall in the bath room. Thatha had lifted the heavy paatti ALL BY HIMSELF and got a massive heart attack.

NOW both are with their good natured nephew living 50 miles away from here!

Morals:

1. One to one ratio in lifting women is ONLY when the man is in his late twenties or early thirties and the lady a lissom thin beauty.

2. Never move out of the safety and security of the pretugious senior citizen's complex for flimsy reasons

3. It is wiser to adopt a boy / girl when it becomes certain that a couple cannot have a child of their own.

4. There is nothing wrong in taking help of the neighbours in an emergency.
That is for what neighbours and friends are!

Dear VR ji,

Poor old couple..hope they are recovering.

BTW when in an emergency even a thin light person finds the strength to carry a heavy object or person.

When I was an intern I was driving to the hospital ward at 3 am..I was on call and I was kind of sleepy too and while driving I did not notice a huge cement block on the road and hit into it and the block got stuck under my car...and my car would not move.

It was 3 am and no one that side of the road..so I got down and used all my strength and lifted the car a little and managed to dislodge the cement block.

I had no choice cos I had an emergency to attend in the ward.

It was only the next day that I felt back and body pain for that superman stunt of lifting my car!LOL

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The man who got bitten by a snake in his garden

and went chasing it and stamped on its tail :der:

to verify whether it was indeed a cobra

and got bitten a second time had survived

the sanke bites but succumbed to Diabetes.

Is sugar more dangerous than cobra venom really??? :wacko:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Dear VR ji,

Poor old couple..hope they are recovering.

BTW when in an emergency even a thin light person finds the strength to carry a heavy object or person.

When I was an intern I was driving to the hospital ward at 3 am..I was on call and I was kind of sleepy too and while driving I did not notice a huge cement block on the road and hit into it and the block got stuck under my car...and my car would not move.

It was 3 am and no one that side of the road..so I got down and used all my strength and lifted the car a little and managed to dislodge the cement block.

I had no choice cos I had an emergency to attend in the ward.

It was only the next day that I felt back and body pain for that superman stunt of lifting my car!LOL

Dear Renu!

I knew you were a super woman even before knowing about this incident.

Is somebody sweating and squirming under the coat of a thin skin???

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Road accidnet and death of couples / families has becoem part of the daily
news. They do not affect us so severely as time passes on.

But NOT SO when we personally know the people involved in such an accident.

A young couple we know have met with such an accidnet.

I cann't bring myself to talk to their family.

Actually we should be visiting them.

I am worried about their young son and his future!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

In the colony we used to live, there used to a trench in every garage

so that a mechanic can atend to the cars which were kept unused for a very

long time.

(People used buy cars JUST to make use of the car loans and get the monthly car allowance. They may not even know to drive the car)

One day the friend whom we were visiting and my husband were absent for

a long time. I went out to take a peek on what they were doing. I could not

believe my eyes.

They were trying to lift the car in the garage since one of the front wheels

was almost on the edge of the trench!

I told them it would be far more easy to reverse the car carefully and

straighten the direction by steering but they won't listen to me.

Finally they gave up and I helped them reverse the car and park it perfectly...

though I had not driven a car after 1970 and the year of this incident was

2010.

Many of the ladies I know had problem in both parking and reversing the car.

 

[renuka]

Dear Renu!

I knew you were a super woman even before knowing about this incident.

dear VR ji,

I am not a superwoman..at times I cant even open a bottle that has a tight cover!

Its just that when faced in an emergency situation one gets strength one never knew that one had.

I had seen even a very thin and small girl once who carried a her very fat friend to the clinic when her friend fainted.

Even experiments have been conducted where energy levels shoot up when faced with an emergency.

That is why the Tatha could carry Vivek Paathi.

 

[JR]

Is somebody sweating and squirming under the coat of a thin skin???

AND that would be YOU, who had not earned Univ. 1st in M.SC, an MS in Software Engineering Degree and being a SWE in the USA!

Poor you!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

AND that would be YOU, who had not earned Univ. 1st in M.SC, an MS in Software Engineering Degree and being a SWE in the USA!

Poor you!

:tsk: and wasted everything due to lack of humility :rofl:

This thread is the right place to brag about oneself.

WHO IS GOING TO VRIFY IT ANYWAY???

To think and to feel and to express it correctly

ONE does not need all these qualifications.

ONE only needs to be human and humane.

P.S.

A moth may appear like a butterfly.

But sooner or later it will show its true nature.

I know ONLY ONE person who had been so self-conceited.

So this must be a punarapi janam!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The trick works even better when

the same person takes two different avtars

like MGR - one good and one not so good. :clap2:

Chiding the bad avatar to prove one's own goodness. :angel:

Alas! A leopard can not change its spots nor a tiger its stripes!!! :tsk:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The Largest Moth



Atlas moth is the largest moth in the world. It is found in the tropical and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia. Its total wing area is 400 square centimeters or 65 square inches. Its wing span is 25 to 30 cm or 10 to 12 inches. Females are larger and heavier than males.

It is named either after the Titan in Greek mythology or after the map-like patterns found on its wings. It is also known as the “snake’s head moth” since the apical extensions of the fore wings resemble the heads of snakes.

This moth is brownish maroon in color. It has triangular diaphanous eyes, bordered in black, on all the four wings. This might be to ward off all the predators.

Its body is hairy and small compared the large wings. Male Atlas is smaller in size, has more tapered wings and larger and bushier antennae.

Neither the male nor the female have fully developed mouth parts. So they do not feed through out their adult lives of 1 to 2 weeks! They survive entirely on the fat reserves built during their caterpillar stage.

Females release powerful pheromones and attract the males several kilometer away, downwind. They are unsteady fliers.

In India Atlas moth is grown for its silk. Unlike the silk produced by the silk worms, Atlas moth silk is secreted as broken strands. This brown wool like silk Fagara is much more durable than silk.

In Taiwan the Atlas moth cocoons are employed as purses!

Visalakshi Ramani

Large or small, plain or colorful, light or heavy...

a moth was a moth, is a moth and will be a moth!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Extrapolation of the A,B,C of the (child??) Psychology

gave rise to some honest and genuine doubts!!!

1. Who is really :hungry: for words of praise?

2. Who grows/ glows green when someone else is praised?

3. Who jumps in at the first opportunity to blow one's own :horn: ?

4. Who CLAIMS to be brilliant in stead of proving one's briliance?

5. Who stays awake past midnight on any time zone in USA?

6. Why do the other Univerity rank holders remain as serene as saints?

7. Why do the persons with multifaceted talents remain as quite as mice?

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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1237a. குறை குடம் தளும்பும் நிறைகுடம் தளும்பாது.
1237b. Empty vessels make most noise.

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[Visalakshi Ramani]

பள்ளமும், வெள்ளமும்



முதிர்ந்த கதிர் தலை சாய்ந்திருக்கும்;
முதிராத பதர்கள் வானம் நோக்கும்.
நிறைந்த எடைத்தட்டு கீழே செல்லும்;
குறைந்த எடைத்தட்டு மேலோங்கும்.

கனிந்த மரக்கிளை பணிந்திருக்கும்;
கனி இல்லாதது விறைத்து நிற்கும்.
கனமுடைய பொன் நீரில் மூழ்கும்;
கனமில்லாத மரம் நீரில் மிதக்கும்,

பணிவும் வேண்டும்; துணிவும் வேண்டும்;
வேண்டாம் அகந்தையும், ஆரவாரமும்!
பணியும் நாணல் புயலைத் தாங்கும்.
பணியாத மரமோ புயலில் வீழும்.

வாழ்க வளமுடன்,
விசாலாக்ஷி ரமணி.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I feel RICH since I have been blessed with two brilliant sons

who shine - not just in the university level - but in National level.

Anyone who calls me poor is the one who is really poor in many things. :bump2:

 

[JR]

WHO IS GOING TO VRIFY IT ANYWAY???

JR: Info for the above available at my Profile.

Sarvam SriKrishnarpanamastu!

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[Visalakshi Ramani]

So I gave one more chance and one more reason to
:horn:...:attention:.... :drum:....:blah:

Time to catch up with missed shut-eye in order to keep

during the looooong day which lies ahead!!!
<edited to remove unwanted comments - praveen>

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Arpanam requires complete submission

and unconditional surrender which

a peron filled with ego can never do!

Here is a story to prove this point!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Men thronged to visit a swamiji. :flock:

They all wanted his blessings. :hail:

They all wanted his DeekshA. :angel:

But there must be some way to filter

those who deserved these from

those who do not deserve these.

Swamiji had a unique method.

He sent out his assiatant with a heavy club in his hand.

His job was to tap it on the head of the men asembled there.

He went around performing his duty very sincerely.

There was pin drop silence until one man yelped with pain.

The assiatant became very happy and said

"This one is not yet ripe for initiation!"

So ArpaN, SamarpaN and such other things

require the power of mind over the matter. :thumb:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Men get deluded by the spoken words.
But God can see the heart that speaks direclty.
He will know whether the words are coming
from the heart or just from the lips!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

When the question starts with "WHO are you to...?"

know that it is the EGO that is speaking thorugh you.

In Tamil it starts with "Evan avan or Eva ava...?"

In the general body meeting one egotist told a lady

"Nee pesaathe!" and shocked the whole crowd.

She asked him "Nee yaaru mothalle athaich sollu?"

The man was visible whacked since he was under the impressionn

that he was the ruler of the colony due to his political influence!!!

He could not have been hit so hard even with a stick.

I had never seen him either and one day I asked him

"Do I know you?" since he was staring with unblinking eyes

with an inexplicable expression for many minutes.

He was whacked then also since it was too much for him

to think that there was one person who did not recognize him.

EGO made the man deluded and a puncture deflated him.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

"Ennaiyaa yaarunnu kette!

kaattiththaren naan yaarunnu!"

were the ominous words spoken by him.

But sensible people forced him apologize to that lady :sorry:

then and there - much to his discomfort and distress!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I lost count in Maths :bump2:

Of the pathetic Moths :sad:
Which had became Booth

Due to the sad aftermath! :tsk:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

And there was this lady who said
she was in the same city as me
and wanted my phone number badly.
She even attached her photo to her e mail.
But when her misison failed sadly
she disappeared into a thin vapor.
The extent to which people can go!!! WOW!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Two bees met one evening and one of them taked about its strange dream to the other.

It said,"I met god in my dream and it was a really wonderful experience!"

The second bee asked the first bee,"What did the God look like?"

The first bee said, "He looked like any of us except that he had two stings!"

Man does the same thing. He imagines God in is own likeness but with extra heads, arms and even legs!

I bet the frogs imagine their God as a frog and the snakes imagine their God as a snake.

No harm done since God is formless. God is pure knowledge, pure energy and pure bliss.

He/ She/ It can appear in any form and every form - the way we expect GOD to do! :hail: