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Think or sink!

rgurus said:
Your teo sons cook well in spite of your NOT teaching them cooking or because of NOT teaching them cooking. Kust kidding. Don't take it as an offence. I have always been feeling that kids both male and female should be taught cooking. In our days we were prohibited to enter the kitchen. "இதெல்லாம் பொம்பளைங்க சமாசாரம்" days are over. I feel the pinch of it now after the demise of my wife
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I am sure my two sons cook well - in spite of my not teaching them even the basics till they left for USA. I myself id not know any coking till I got married in 1970.

My elder sister ( older to me by 4 years) used to help my mother in the kitchen. I was busy preparing for my music exams and with dance practice.

I had spent 8 years in the ladies' hostel ( 4 years while studying and 4 years while working in a women's college)

So after getting married, when I first made rava upma to impress my very talented S.I.L,
it turned out to be a porridge. Later on I re-discovered the proportions of water with the stuff being cooked as well as the portions needed for serving an average adult.

No one would give the ratios as they all kept saying "kuthu mathippaa seiven" or " kaaN paarthu seiven".

I am sorry to learn about the sad demise of your wife. Many men take their women for granted when they live and serve silently - looming at the background or becoming a mere shadow of the men folk.

The void or vacuum left behind by them will be felt only the wife is no more! :(


 
ONE good thing about the male members learning to cook is undeniably this!

The wife can't blackmail him emotionally by saying "naan enga ammaa veettukkup pOren!"

The qualified male will ask "When do you want to leave and how long you wish to be away?"

thus bursting the balloon of blackmailing to 1000 shreds! :boom:

The less qualified male will bring in his mother when his wife goes to her mother!!! :)
 
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Lucky and an Accidental discovery by Varun. When he chose the colors from the strip given on the top of the searched page the dogs changed colors!

wehad a hearty laugh seeing the unusual green dog, the green clown fish and the green puffer fish !

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He and She.

He would through the crowd push,
He would always be in a mad rush.

His inseparable companion, a hair brush
Made him presentable to his lady ‘crush’.

He would beat around the bush,
He would try her emotion to flush;

At times there will be a hush hush,
That is when he planned an ambush.

Had he known that her lovely blush,
Was the product of a painting brush;

There might be no more gush,
Of his silly feelings – this slush!
 
My dear laptop which has served me well for over 5 years has gone to sleep. :sleep:

No amount of shaking and raking could wake it up.

It had not been doing well recently and used to radiate heat in a scaring manner.

We tried a heart transplantation by changing the battery - but in vain! :(

The new battery started draining faster than you can say "Jack Robinson" :(

I may be presented with a new Chrome Book - one which is not very heavy or

sophisticated and which will well in the small laptop bag.

Tell me now ...should I feel sorry hat I last me laptop which had literally become the extension of myself

or feel happy that I shall get a new brand laptop for my very own personal use? :decision:

This 32" monitor 32" looks scary and large when I sit so close to it.

Please enlarge the letters of the post - if you find them too small to read!
 
Hobbies cost money and occupy a lot of space in every house.

In the house of the music lover we will find various musical instruments.

In the house of an artist we will find the pictures competed as well those being drawn.

The house of the computer lover is full of storage boxes with God knows who all components.

Parting is very hard - whether with people or one's belongings!

So every house burst to the seem with the things - both needed and not needed!
 
Juju got very upset when Varun told her "I do not like you!"

It can't be true since she is not just his elder sister but also his guruji

cum story book reader, cum duet singer cum playing and dancing companion.

It set me thinking how both children and grown ups hurt most the

very same people whom they love most or who love them most! :(
 
I found out the reason why I was unable to copy paste my poems from my blogs!

Mac (whether mini or maxi) can only be "commanded" and NOT "controlled"!

While the monitor and the CPU were new the key board belonged to Windows!

Small wonder I was unable to command this Mini Mac through the control key.

Different strokes for different folks is an old adage.

Different keys for different P.C is the newer version! :)
 
What is the right parameter to measure the greatness of a person!

Elementary dear folks!

The 'kasa musa' for the property left behind the person

decides how great he/she was when alive!

Greater the power and wealth greater the fight for the right on what is left!!!
 
As usual I converted the curse of losing my own P.C into a blessing by devoting

more time towards completing Thirumanthiram Onbatham Thanthiarm.

I hope to finish it before the winter break for the other family members.

Who would be spending serious time with TMTM when

lively kids are available for playing and spending time with!
 
At last our Social Security numbers arrived.

If anything can go wrong it MUST go wrong - at least to the Venkatramanis!

I guess We are the favorites of Mr. Murphy who formulated the Murphy's Law! :rolleyes:

The surnames are split into two halves with the one in my husband's name ending in 'Ran" and mine simply in "N"!

Now we have to RUN behind them to get them corrected!

The funniest part is that when we were shown the proof before the printout was taken our expanded names were 100% correct!
 
Varun is playing Chess on the Internet.

I was impressed by the intensity of his concentration while he played.

Whoever he won he was jubilant. When he occasionally lost he was literally in tears.

I told him the important thing to PLAY WELL without worrying about winning or losing!

But he is just 4 and too young to understand the concept of "karmaNyeva" of Bhagavat Gita!(chapter 2 verse 47)
 
I just discovered that like most children including Tarun
who calls a 'color roller' as 'cowwa wowwa'

Varun also has difficulty in pronouncing 'RRRR' as we do!
So 'real' become 'weal' and 'reel' becomes 'weel'.

But kids always manage to convey whatever they want to convey
whether or not they are able to fold the tongue or roll its tip as in "R"!

Smalle babies manage with just the keywords just as
the butlers are credited to have done in days of British Raj! :)
 
Poeple from India used to eating coconuts need not worry that there are is thengaai thuruvi
and fresh coconut with milled circumference for perfect splitting into two halves
is the size of an intelligent person's head ( perimeter 24"?)

I has seen dry coconut in many avatars.... scraped, grated, powdered coconut.

This time in the form of a fine fragrant flour resembling milk powder
which can be readily mixed with any dish be it saambaar, koottu, curry of chutney.

But I doubt whether anything or anyone cam make me drink me coffee with a dash of coconut oil in it! :nono:
Apparently it is a delicacy since it is listed in the 12 ways of unleashing the power of coconut oil in the kitchen!!:dizzy:
 
The mark of true friendship? :decision:

One of the close friends of my father was an old gentleman known as Wahaab.

My sons used to call him as Wahaab thatha and play with his silver beard!

He had to bring 4 orange candy daily as ' a 'tribute' to our young princes!!!

My father left our town in 1989 but Wahaab thatha stayed back.

There was no contact by telephone or snail mail but I bet they must contacted through telepathy.

Believe it or not hours after my father died wahaab thatha also died in his place.

It was as though one friend 'came up' and called the other to 'pack up'!

Now I am reminded of this after reading about "Cho" Ramasami's death soon after Amma J.J.'s death! :rip:
 
Have you heard people having long conversation in their sleep? :wacko:

It is just like two people talking in person...but we can't hear the other person

since he has appeared only in the dream of the conversing person.

Demonetization has affected older people very deeply followed by the

now reduced rate of interest in the banks for all fixed deposits.

All the latent fears and doubts surface when the person gets submerged below the level of jaagrata avastha.

But I have learned not to intervene in the conversation conducted in swapna avastha -

after my finger got bitten while trying to awake someone shouting for help in a nightmare! :help:
 
Apparently, just as Varun makes a Queen out of a mere pawn,
some keys can be converted to do the function of some of the other keys.

Apparently it takes only a few minutes.

Those few minutes will be available only in the weekend
by which time I hope to finish the Onbathaam thanthiram!

Waiting is good and makes the experience that follows more enriching!
It takes an oyster a very long time to make a pearl out of the irritating dirt or sand.

It takes forty weeks to grow a beautiful human baby in the womb.
Gaja Garbbam takes even longer that 40 weeks!
Tree takes several years to grow and yield fruits.

Compared to Eternity these are nothing just as compared to the cosmos the earth is nothing that
which means those who are on the earth and imagine to be at the center of the Universe
are no more than mere ants, worms and beetles to those looking from high above! :rolleyes:
 
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[TH]Animal[/TH]
[TH]Gestation or incubation, in days (average)[/TH]
[TH]Longevity, in years (record exceptions)[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Deer[/TD]
[TD]197–300 [SUP]1[/SUP][/TD]
[TD]10–15 (26)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Dog[/TD]
[TD]53–71 (63)[/TD]
[TD]10–12 (24)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Duck[/TD]
[TD]21–35 [SUP]1[/SUP] (28)[/TD]
[TD]10 (15)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Elephant[/TD]
[TD]510–730 [SUP]1[/SUP] (624)[/TD]
[TD]30–40 (71)[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

The gestation periods of some of the animals!
The poor poor elephant may have to bear the baby
in the womb for anything up to 2 full years!!!
 
I guess my dear elder son has set the control key as the command key
yesterday and given me a complete surprise! :)

Just by force of habit I tried to copy paste and IT WORKED!!! :thumb:
Still the regular posts in the other threads will be resumed only on Monday 12th inst.
 



480 (a). பீலி பெய்யினும் அச்சிறுகும்.

480 (b). The last drop makes the cup run over.

It is pleasure when you look for a quote and find your own blog with that quote right on the top of the list!!!

Now let us come to the main story:

The hot water supply is for 24 hours or as they say round the clock - throughout the year!

So people need hot water for every purpose - as long as they do NOT get scolded in sensitive areas! :rolleyes:

The net result...

The water heater has given up under the stress and has gone to sleep. :(

That does nor deter us Indians from having a bath in the hot water made on the stove with a bucket and a

mug! So today was a kOlahala day though NOT a kuthoohala day! :roll:

Hope the electricians will set it right today itself since this is considered as an emergency in a country

which does not have a bucket and a mug or can not think of other sources of hot water

or does NOT have huge vessels with sturdy handles suited for this purpose! :rolleyes:
 
Manu Neeti Saaatra says that one must NOT praise one's children in their presence.

It also says on must praise the servant/ helper / ayah / cook / gardener in their presence.

I found out the reason behind this sterling statement!

The children who are adored /admired and praised sky high develop superior attitudes and either consider

everyone else as dumbo or they simply refuse to listen to anyone or learn from any one anything.

The helpers on the other hand receive a boost by the praise from the master and work harder to keep up the image!

How can Manu Neeti Sastra ever be wrong??? :thumb:
 
Toddlers are like tumblers since they are in unstable equilibrium.

Their heavy head places their Center of Gravity quite high.

Their tiny legs are so small that the vertical line from the C.G can easily fall outside their feet.

The net result is that they tumble, bounce and are up on their feet once again to get bumped more and more!

My youngest sister described R.R mam's grand daughter - a toddler - as moving with neither a gear nor a break.

I would add one more thing.. without the steering wheel either! :)

With the knowledge of a few words which can be counted on the fingers in one hand,

these kutties manage to rule the word with their sign language and superior attitude of

having every member of the family on their pay roll - BUT WITHOUT actually paying them! :rolleyes:
 
The electrician did not turn up yesterday.

So today's morning witnessed the repeat performance or our action replay but which was

more efficient and organized today, since we have had a rehearsal already yesterday.

If they do not turn up today also, they may come only on Monday earliest.

Are they so busily occupied which means that such incidents are not uncommon

or do thy just play hard to get - on a cold severe winter day ??? :noidea:
 
The Full Moon now reminds me of the Hunter's Moon when the hunter became the hunted

and took to heels - tucking in his incorrigibly bent tail and yelping for help.

We associate ideas/ places/persons/ days/ dates whether we want or not.
 

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