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Think or sink!

The soldiers.

The army marched in a surge,
Like waves driven by an urge;

One could hear their onward forge,
Courage must have taken up charge;

Everything they did was in splurge,
The only way to eat was to gorge;

Their servings had to be very large,
Drenched with a liberal use of Marge;

Mentally they were ready to merge,
On their physical abilities’ verge;

Spiritually they wished to purge,
Is cleansing possible with spurge?

 
I was surprised to see Juju and Varun go to school in their night pyjama.
I was told that it is the Pyjama Day in their school.

So kids can just brush their teeth, wash their face(?) eat b/f and go to school -without bothering to change their dress! :)



THEY CAN ALSO CARRY THEIR FAVORITE SOFT TOY WHICH THEY HUG WHEN THEY SLEEP!

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PILOWS AND BLNKETS???



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#6. My extreme Encounters with snakes

Toads are not only springy and compressible but also highly elastic.

May be they are springy and compressible because they are highly elastic!

They can shrink themselves into a tiny size.

But when they leap they become thin and long.

They can climb vertical surfaces better than lizards.

May be they can go on for a long time without food and water.

They settle down in nooks and corners and do penance like rushivar!.

But a snake can smell the toads even when they are inside house.

So one fine day I and my sister were sitting inside her house

which had a wire mesh door and a varandah outside the door.

A Snake managed to climb and enter the verandah and

it was exploring an opening to get in to the house.

Imagine two old ladies watching a snake - desperately trying

to get into the house through the door with just a nylon net!

We watched its movements like people mesmerized.

Apparently there is a limit even to the patience a snake has!

Eventually it gave up its pursuit and went away much to our relief!

Now that is what I meant by a 'determined snake'!
 
Varun reads books - even though he has not learned to read yet!

His dad and mom are great bedtime story readers.

He listens to them with rapt attention

and has learned bye heart the whole book!

Not just one book but many children's books.

Small wonder that though there was no books still Vedas were

passed on from generation to generation by word of mouth.

Hence the name 'Struti' for Vedas since the pupils listened to their Guru

and learned bye heart whatever had to be learned by them!

Even at that time man was supposed to be using only a very small % of

his great memory power!

What has come over to mankind now?

Man can not remember his own personal info and stores them on a

mini device - if when it gets lost helps another person to take over his

life, his savings and his identity!
 
The whole wide world.

Here no one owns a patent,
It is a free and open tent;

Those who are competent,
Conquer to a greater extent;

Those who are very potent,
Feel in their mind content;

No one can estimate talent,
Which lies ina person, latent;

Those who work with intent,
Are those most consistent;

Those who remain persistent,
Will slowly become discontent;

Their work may be incompetent,
And the production intermittent;

The world belongs to Omnipotent,
He has made everything existent;

Those who are inadvertent,
Are sure to feel penitent;

To those who remain insistent,
It might just become a portent!
 
The electrician-cum-plumber-cum-heater doctor has manged to get the approval of the insiurance company by 'highly recommending' the need TO CHANGE A LEAKING WATER HEATER in a household which has both very young children and old grandarents.

He will be coming today to fix the new water heater.

I am remeinded of my home country when all the workers will work overtime and very promptly just before any major festival like Deepaavali or Pongal.

Who does need some extra cash to celebrate the festivals in style and a grand scale? :party:
 
The teachers also turned up in pajama in the school just like all the pupils yesterday.

I believe they were all tired and sleepy-eyed and were ready to hit the sack - if so permitted.

Dress makes a man / woman stylish or sleepy, lovely or lousy, pretty or weird.

Every property (!) has its own associated properties ( qualities).

I have wondered how wearing a fine silk sari and a few jewels make some women become

stiff upper lipped, with their nose in the air, and behave as if they are perfect strangers to us!
 
# 7. My extreme encounter with snakes!!!

We were returning after visiting famous Murugan temple in our car driven by my dear father.

Is was very dark and the cars on the road in those days ( 6 decades ago) were few and far between.

People and animals can cross the road at their leisure and at their pleasure.

When the car turned round a bend we saw the most memorable and unforgettable sight!

A man was about to keep his foot down and a cobra was in all readiness

to strike him when he would put his foot down.

The headlight of the car made the man see the cobra with its hood raised.

The cobra got startled by the sudden beam of the car's head light.

So both of them made a U turn each and ran away.

I witnessed and realized what is the true meaning of hair-breath-escape!

and the wonderful ways Divine Providence works everyday for everyone.

Split second difference would have made my father give him first aid - instead of the gift of life.

It is true that

When God is on our side NOTHING can harm us!

When God is not on our side NOTHING can save us!

May be the man himself was returning after visiting the Lord Murugan temple.

May be Lord Murugan decided to save him in the most miraculous way!

Who are we (mere mortals) to understand the wonderful plans of God?

But do we need to understand them - instead of just trusting HIM and having faith on HIM? :hail:
 
A Jailbird!

He was sent to the jail,
She tried to get his bail;

She did her best to hail
Her lawyer, but did fail;

Her face resembled a kail,
Her tears filled up a pail;

She could not even mail,
His fate was under a nail;

She wished he had set assail,
And wisely tucked in his tail;

And not talked to the law rail!
Alas! Now she could only wail!
 
Nine lives…!

It saw its food in the bowl,
Its face turned into a scowl;

There was a fat plump fowl,
Sitting on top of the cowl;

Joy appeared on its jowl,
It wished to give out a howl;

It felt as wise as an owl,
And set out with a growl;

Like its cousin on its prowl,
Oh! It rough landed with a yowl.

Meow! Meow!! Meow!!! Meow!!!!
 
WE NEVER DO ANTHING!

GOD ORDAINS US TO DO WHAT WE DO!!

HE GETS DONE WHAT HE WANTS TO GET DONE!

WE ARE MERELY INSTRUMENTS IN HIS HANDS!!! :hail:

So it is time to quit saying "I did this/that"

It must be "I was made to do this/ that by God!"

Hope this is understood by all the readers and writers here!
 
அவளும் அணுவும்!




அவனன்றி அணுவும் அசைய முடியாது.
அவளன்றி அவனாலும் அசைய முடியாது.

சாட்டை இல்லா பம்பரம் போல நம்மை
ஆட்டுவிப்பவள் அன்னை பராசக்தியே!

அவளே நமக்கு உறுதுணையாவாள்.
அவளே நமக்குப் பரகதியாவாள்.

அவளே நமக்குத் தாயும், தந்தையும்.
அவளே நமக்கு குருவும், இறையும்.

அவள் மலர்ப் பதம் பணிவோம்;
அவள் அருள் வேண்டி இத்தொடரில்.

ஐங்கரனும், ஆறுமுகனும் ஆகிய இரு
கண்மணிகளை வணங்கிய பின்னர்.

உங்கள் உண்மையுள்ள,

விசாலாக்ஷி ரமணி.

https://devineeyethunai.wordpress.com

The condensed version of Devi Mhaatmyam - excluding the bloodshed and war scenes!
 
#8. My extreme encounter with snakes!

I stay up till 10 - 30 or even 11 P.M to type the posts and do the translation.

Afer that I visit and pray to all the ods in every room and retire for the night.

It was my wedding anniversary day.

AS USUAL I was all by myself since sentimental bonds do not mean anything to some people.

I went to my bed and spotted a long crumpled striped thing on the ground.

It looked just like a piece of cloth I had been stitching earlier on that day.

So I assumed that it was a thin long piece useful for many purposes and bent down to pick it up!

My heart jumped to my throat when the ribbon moved!!!

It was a kattu viriyan - one of the deadly poisonous type of snakes!

And it went and hid under the large wooden box kept in a corner.

It was so thin and long that it can easily crawl below the door and go to any room and hide for ever!!!

So I packed the space below the door with the door mat and went to call the security at the main gate.

They as well as two neighbor who go to bed very late came to my door.

Exactly at that time the power got cut.

Those four men armed with long sticks stood outside my door for an hour till the power returned.

When they entered the room the snake had vanished from below the box.

It had moved below another box on the opposite corner on which the small T.V Set was placed.

I came out of the house. The four men entered the small room (10'x10')

with two cots occupying 6 1/2' x 6' in addition to those huge boxes.

There ws a lot of sound effect and finally they come out with

the limp body of the snake hanging from a large sick.

I could not sleep that night.

I wondered how many more were there in the house and whether the snake had laid

eggs in unexpected corners in the house filled with many things,.

I sat on the cot and spent the night chanting Kanda sashti since I did not how what better can be done.

That is not the end of the story!

When I told my lord and master about the visit by the snake, he did not get alarmed until

I told him that he would have stepped on the snake if he had been in the house!

This must be the closest encounter with a poisonous snake since
I almost picked up - mistaking it for a crumpled striped ribbon! :scared:
 
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The lovely, colorful and edible Christmas trees made of cookies!!!

My sons and Ds.I.L have made these for Christmas.

If the Americans can celebrate Diwali why can't we celebrate Christmas?

The concept behind all festivals remains the same.

Care for and Share with your friends and family!!! :party:
 
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The unwelcome welcome!

Everyone does into the world come,
Based on Karmic Cycle’s outcome;

The fresh karmas form our income,
The seeds of our future they become;

There is no practical way to overcome,
The resulting births, very unwelcome!

To those who live well, life is welcome,
To the others, life is always unwelcome!
 
Up Up and away!

His dream was skyward,
But it ended up seaward!

Childhood plans aimed upward,
He wanted to spread outward;

Traveling would be his reward,
He did not care for any award!

He wished to be a steward,
But his habits were leeward;

And his movements awkward,
Pushed his career backward;

He was deeply hurt inward,
His enthusiasm went downward;

He should have moved onward,
He was an incorrigible coward;

He directed his ideas seaward,
And gave up all dreams skyward!
 
IN INDIA WE USED TO SEE THE ELECTRIC LAMPS SHINING INSIDE THE

COLORFUL STARS IN THE HOUSE OF EVERY CHRISTIAN FRIEND.

HERE THERE ARE SERIES OF COLOR LIGHTS BUT THERE ARE NO STARS!

NO SINGING IN THE STREET NOR GROUPS GATHERING AND CELEBRATING.

Christmas Day IS JUST AS QUIET AND CALM AS ANY OTHER DAY!
 
#9. My extreme encounters with snakes:

The following may not be my extreme encounters or even my personal encounters.

Yet they may registered here since they have left a permanent impression in my mind!

(1). A shiny black cobra was sitting in our colony temple on the parapet wall. The lady-in-charge of the temple walked past - without looking at the snake. The snake climbed on to a tree trunk nearby and vanished in a jiffy.

(If the lady had seen the snake and reacted...I am not sure of the outcome of this encounter!)

(2). A colleague of my sister used to jump over the compound wall - to avoid the long walk to the main entrance. One day he stepped on a sleeping cobra and it put him into a permanant sleep! :(

(3). A cobra was seen in front of the house of a Bengali family every night. It would twine itself on the thick money plant in front of the house. It would be absent during the days and return at nights - as if to guard the family consisting of an elderly widowed lady and her unmarried daughter!

Bengalis are not afraid of snakes. They worship mans Devi perhaps.

I have a strong feeling that the snake is the reincarnation of the dead husband of the lady. He was a very lean and tall man with roving eyes! His length predominated his other measurements and he is the ideal specimen to be reborn as a snake and protect his family!

(4). At dusk I saw two men walking outside our township with crowbars placed on their shoulder. One of the crowbars bent and swung with every step taken by one of those men.

A very long thick snake hung dead from the crown bar. The weight of the snake made the bar bend and wobble with every step taken by him.

(5). My neighbour found a snake in her bedroom near the swami shelf. She has two young daughters and got panicky. The snake did not harm anyone but the family went and performed special pooja in one of the temples dedicated to snakes.

(6). A friend who belonged to our Visakha Tamil Sangham was named Nagaraajan. The story behind this nomenclature is enough to give goose bumps to anyone.

When his mother was full term pregnant with him in her womb, a cobra had slept in her bed for the whole night without harming her of her husband or the unborn baby. To show their gratitude to the snake they had named him as Naagaraajan.

Snakes look good on our Gods but not on our roads!
 
I forgot two more incidents related to the snakes.

Since we were four girls in the family and the only son was protected as we the girls were,
my father had the unpleasant duty of dealing with snakes and scorpions, as and when they visited us!

He would drop a heavy stone right on the head of the slithering snake and cause instant death
and would not indulge in beating and thrashing the creature - causing unforeseen reactions.

One fine day a snake turned up in the garden. We ran and reported to our Dad as usual. He was busy with something else and sinmply said" O.K.! Just chase it away!"

"Mudukki vidumaa!" were his exact words.

We ca 'mudukkividu'fy men and cattle but snakes???

The other incident involves my mother and a real cobra with its poisonous fangs in tact.

We had a well with a very large rectangular cross section in our home. It was too big to be covered and so it was left open. It has a pully, and bucket tied to a long rope - in case we wanted 'madi jalaam' for the Sraadhdam etc.

A cobra has fallen to the well. It kept swimming and tring to climb up but the walls were vertical and very high. My mother must be the reincarnation of Rani Lakhmi Bai of Jhansi!

She tried to save the snake by lowering an open basket tied to the rope. The snake would get into the basket but when it reached the top and my mother tried to push it away to safety with a long stick, it would try to attack her and slip down into the well once again.

This must have gone on in Gazuini style several times before the snake understood that the efforts were made to save it and not harm it. So finally my mother was able to draw up the basket with the rope and push the snake out of the basket with the stick.

To this day I shudder to think of what would have happened if the snake could have got near enough to my mom to harm her. She was all alone at that time since we were in our schools and dad in his clinic!
 
One ma's greed + Another man's folly = one fine lady's loss of a precious gadget!

We have a fine collection of L.P. Records - since it was our first expense every month, after getting the meagre salary which was being paid in those days.

Both my sons love classical instrumental music and I like vocal music which will help me to learn more new songs. Those days the tape recorder looked and sounded like a grinding machine and audio cassettes and YouTube did not exist.

The family living downstairs has been waiting like the proverbial kokku for the right opportunity. So the day I went south with my sons for the annual vacation, the greedy and unscrupulous man living downstairs came up with his tape recorder. He had copied every song from every L.P record in our possession from morning to night - assisted by me generous husband.

He could have done it over a period of days. If he could not think about this we the owner's of the player must have thought about it. Since neither of these happened the spindle of the player got heated and deformed.

The count will 33 1/3 r.p.m but one half of the rotation will be faster than the rotation of the other half ! To put it in a nutshell I was NOT able to play anything ever since then!!!

Before we can even reach our home for vacation this damage had been done in a great hurry!

Yesterday my son fixed in our new home a new record player and an old DVD player. I almost cried with joy after listening to the record of Veena, Venu, Violin by the famous Trio!!

We will use the player regularly and certainly avoid using it for long hours.
One bitten twice shy !!! Right???
 
Freelance.

He finally chose to freelance,
His talents showed at a glance;

His word power sharp as a lance,
He was familiar with parlance.

He did not possess petulance,
He had a calm semblance;

He camouflaged his vigilance,
His work and time in balance;

His total success in freelance
Called for a merry jubiliance.
 
Bow very low!

I often wonder how,
Some people can bow,

To touch the ground low!
The human end of a mow?

Or just a grass eating cow?
They want everything now!

They must attend a pow-pow,
And ride wild horses in a row,

They must first learn to sow,
And be ready to go in a tow,

And make Toil their new vow,
If the want to hear a wow!
 
WHEN YOU LOOK LIKE YOURSELF YOU FEEL AT HOME!

Many a times the photo rarely resembles the person.

There is a famous book with this title...

When you look like your passport photo, it is time to go home!:)

The facial resemblance may not be there.

The inner temperament may not get captured.

You might often feel that the photo belongs to a doppleganger and NOT yourself.

But today I look like my photo or rather the photo looks like me

and it has managed to capture my inner spirit and personality.

We went to the Motor vehicles Division to get our photo I.D.

There was pin drop silence and well behaved people standing in queues -

allowing each other's personal space and waiting patiently.

The ladies behind the desks were very courteous.

They indicated when the photo will be taken so that we do not get photographed

with our eyed closed or mouth wide open with a yawn or other similar defects.

No visions tests since we will ride the cars but will not drive them any way.

We got the temporary photo i.d valid for one month and the real card will be mailed to us soon.

No wolves and jackals on the prowl demanding commission to get the job done as in India. :(

Corruption has become so depressingly deep rooted there, that we do not even pause to think

that the common practices in vogue there are neither normal nor moral! :doh:

 
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