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[Visalakshi Ramani]

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[Visalakshi Ramani]

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Have you ever wondered about how we can 'make ' time -

even though none of us can create time??? :decision:

Just get up earlier than the usual time by as much time as you want extra.

The day becomes naturally longer and more fruitful.

As for sleep we think we are missing it is pure imagination.

If in reality we do lack sleep body, our body knows how to steal

sleep in tiny instalment to make up the deficit sleep! :thumb:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

As a very young kid, my younger son would get up 2 hours earlier on all the holidays. He used to call them as jolly days and tried to stay awake an hour extra at night. So the holy day/ holiday/ jollyday became 3 hours longer than the normal working day. Isn't it a great idea for a tiny tot???

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

But the same holidays have become the busiest days for him and his wife now.

They have to mow the lawn, clean the sprawling house, clean the wash basins, sinks, bath tubs, closets, do the yard work, wash the clothes , clean the kitchen shelves and fridge during the weekends.

If he feels tired on Monday ( as I bet everyone else would also be doing including the boss) they all know how to steal sleep in between their tasks! Right???
When a peeping Tom becomes eep:

a Sleeping Tom

Life becomes much easier for everyone! :couch2:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Some people claim it is fun to kill people - especially those who do not belong to their religion! :shocked:

Together Men and women may be able to make babies but yet it is ONLY God who can actully create life. :hail:

We don't have a right to destroy anything which we are incapable of creating.

So how can anyone take away the life of another living being and feel justified in doing it???

Religions are supposed to teach love for one's fellow beings and love for God.
Teaching hatred and extermination is not the job of any religion. :nono:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Many people seem to grow up NOT knowing the difference between
the Right and the Wrong or the DOs and DON'Ts. :decision:

They may be systematically brain-washed to lose the line of demarcation
between the two choices occurring in each of these pairs.

Or they might have never got the values inculcated in them.
Which of these is worse - even if it does matter???

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Are American parents afraid of their own children? :fear:

Neither do they correct their children
Nor do they allow others to correct them.

It can't be true that whatever they is always right!
It can't be true that correcting their mistakes it a wrong thing to do.

How can teaching the Right become Wrong???
Or How can doing the Wrong things become Right???

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Libery and Freedom are for people who have grown up
and have learned to and are able to think for themselves.

Liberty and freedom are not for lollypop kids or
the now famous I pad /Aay pad toddlers.

The reason to let them to do whatever they wish to do has
this strange philosophy attached against correcting them.

Correcting them will develop a guilt complex! :wacko:

I :welcome: the guilt complex which will make a person think twice
before doing something wrong/ very selfish/ unthoughtful/ indecent.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Even though our grand kids were bored stiff while they were in India,
with no swimming pool nor school friends nor their toys nor their bicycles
it was nice to hear them shout in unison today during the chat
"We wnat to go to India and to thatha paatti's house!"

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Does distance add to the enchantment ??? :decision:

Does nastalgia work better than the present feelings??? :decision:

Do things beyond our reach appeal to us more than

those which are well within our reach??? :decision:

Does the past appear happier than the present??? :decision:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

It is alwyas "good old days!" and never ever

"good days of the present"!!!

My guees is this....

Happy moments of the past appear happier than they did then.

Sad moments of the past appear less sad than they did then.

Time appears takes the edge off our sorrows

and add gleam to our joys!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

In 2014, I met group of excited Germans in the Bengalure airport.
They had completed a package tour of visiting India and were returning to Germany.
The lady with whom I picked up a conversation said they visited Misoor on that day.
She showed me a pamphlet and it was Mysore alright!
I wondered what kind of a package it was which did not even teach them how to pronounce the names of the places they had visited!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

There was a drama at midnight in my neighborhood.
A lot of commotion and also motions(!) by random people.
I got startled and ventured outside to find out what was wrong.

A viper had been spotted near the door step on my neighbor by one of the late-night-owls returning home.

He promptly repeoted the matter and the daring male members of all the four flats in that wing killed the snake.

They were bragging about the success of their joint venture.
So that was the cause of the celebration and its reverberation at midnight.

I wished them good night and reminded them it was already time to wish them good morning!

Names always fascinate me. The name of the man who can wake up the whole colony - when he wakes up his sleepy son in the mornings - literally translates to "Bell Throat"!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

One story about a snake fetches forth many others in quick succession.

Two days ago a long and large asnake (may be soulmate of the cobra living near the temple ?) was killed near the tranformer by a group of men.

Except the Bengalis who worship snakes as Manasa Devi, all the others are frightened now - whether or not they admit it! :fear:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I and my home have become most vulnerable - thanks to my neighbors both of whom keep shoe-racks outside their doors overflowing with chappals and shoes, even though there are just 2 persons in each of the houses.

In addition they have a fascination for gardening and keep umpteen flower pots with weird plants and creepers.

So long as the snakes also do not start creeping on these creepers we are safe!

God save us!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

If you think that the most popular person must be one

who is most active or one who contributes most or

one who has most friends, you are sadly mistaken.

The most popular person is one who is invisible. inaudible and inactive.

The person may or may not even be a member as it appears now.

So much for the evlauation of the popularity and productivity!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I always feel amused when the heroine is forced to marry the man who had raped her - since now is impure and unfit for any other man! :rofl:

So if he wants to get married to specific beauty in the village all he has to do is either to rape her really or make it appears as if he had raped her.

Some parents go much further by marrying her off to any man who has rescued her from any of the pancha boothaas (water, fire, landslide etc).

It saves them the touble of hunting for a suitble boy.

They also think that they make the life of the girl honorable by marrying her off (to a nonentity / stranger /an adventurer???)

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

So the girls have evolved a new way to get even with these men. They are ready to live in with anyone to get free boarding and lodging ( and many presents of the he is a paisa-party - loaded with moolah).

Most of them do not care about tying the knot - which will hinder free movement from man to man. They need A husband but do not want kids - which is again a stronger bondage!

So their motto is "Live to love!" or "Love to live!"

If ever they get married to some lunatic and then get divorced it will be only for taking away everything from him except his coat, suit, hat and boots!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Many of the boys and girls going abroad for higher studies MAY share their apartments first and then their bedrooms also.

We can't blame them since it is the harmones racing through their blood vessels that makes them do these things.

The freedom and privacy the country offers encourages them.

Small wonder they lose their innocense very soon after leaving the motherland.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

So one father's practical advice to his daughter several decades ago was
"Whatever you do, please do not get preganant!"

I guess the family planning methods were not so easy, colorful,
inviting, popular or effective and successful in those days.

 

[renuka]

In 2014, I met group of excited Germans in the Bengalure airport.
They had completed a package tour of visiting India and were returning to Germany.
The lady with whom I picked up a conversation said they visited Misoor on that day.
She showed me a pamphlet and it was Mysore alright!
I wondered what kind of a package it was which did not even teach them how to pronounce the names of the places they had visited!

Dear VR ji,

I think its becos of language differences they could not pronounce it well.

For examples Indians from India can never pronounce Kuala Lumpur.Most of them pronounce it as Kula Lampoor.

They somehow can't pronounce it and its no big deal ...its understandable cos they dont know Malay.

 

[renuka]

Dear VR ji,

When I was in college we student had a full skeleton set each.

Once we had completed the study of Anatomy..most of the male students made the human skulls into ash trays or lamp shades.I felt that it was disrespectful to do that to a human who did not have a burial or cremation and whose bones were doing "seva" to us students.

Some even took it home to their respective countries.

I did not modify or bring the skeleton home cos it must have belonged to a human being once upon a time and I did not want bring across to a land that he was not born in.So at least let his bones remain in India.My skeleton was male..most of it were males.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Dear VR ji,

I think its becos of language differences they could not pronounce it well.

For examples Indians from India can never pronounce Kuala Lumpur.Most of them pronounce it as Kula Lampoor.

They somehow can't pronounce it and its no big deal ...its understandable cos they dont know Malay.

Dear Renu,
I swear I missed you a lot! :hug:
I know the native pronunciation is always different from that of other people.
But Misoor does not sound even one small bit like Mysore!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Dear VR ji,

When I was in college we student had a full skeleton set each.

Once we had completed the study of Anatomy..most of the male students made the human skulls into ash trays or lamp shades.I felt that it was disrespectful to do that to a human who did not have a burial or cremation and whose bones were doing "seva" to us students.

Some even took it home to their respective countries.

I did not modify or bring the skeleton home cos it must have belonged to a human being once upon a time and I did not want bring across to a land that he was not born in.So at least let his bones remain in India.My skeleton was male..most of it were males.

Dear Renu,
Considering the number of budding doctors, it is really surprising how they mange to provide a full skeleton for each of them.
Once grave digging and stealing bodies for the puropose of research was a roaring and soaring business. I have no idea how thy do it now?
Another interesting fact is that they all belong to men. What happens to the female skeltons of those who are not cremated?
Our real life Psycho had gone after female bodies. Look at the fancy items he has conceived in his imagination!
A belt made of nipples (!!!), a lamp shade from a female face, corsets, leggings all from female obody.
He was nut no doubt but also a genius in his creativity.
I was shocked to read that his gruesome designer couch would fetch a fortune even today!!! :shocked: