Think or sink!

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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For those who have been wondering what all this fuss is about...
Pi Day is the March 14th of every year
since Pi = 3.14..............

In USA , Canada and 3 other countries they write the
month first followed by the date and then the year.

Their format is mm/dd/yyyy

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Selective cleanliness???

People polish the counter top, clean the stove top, table top and every other flat / curved surface in the kitchen!

But when their children handle their shoes and go straight to the dining table to eat food, they do not object!

Children may even pick up food fallen on the ground and eat it. Still no comments!

They may roll on the carpet and come straight from there to eat food. Still no objection!

Small wonder children become violently sick all of a sudden.

While so much care is taken for the clean exterior objects, the due importance is often not given to the products sent into the interior of the body!

Selective hearing???

The culture and etiquette of a person is said to be inversely proportional to the noise he/ she makes at the dining table!

In other words...more noise means the person is less cultured and less noise means the person is more cultured.

It is not just the clatter of the spoons on the plates but also dropping metal/glass things on the ground making people do the otherwise-impossible-sitting-high-jump.

Some male members have the habit of cleaning all the seven gates of their 'nava-dhwAra-puri' at the washbasin.

They gargle and spit, blow their nose like a trumpet, clean their face and eyes by splashing water. All these must be done in the bathroom and not in the dining room.

May be we should thank them for not doing the number 1 and number 2 business also there.

Least consideration is shown for those who are still eating at the table.

Some mahAtmAs go further and belch in both ways!!! :faint:

This is not the end of the story.

The saddest part is the way they react violently, when any of these is brought to the attention of any of those who indulge in doing any of these actions!!! :mad2:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

இது எப்படி இருக்கு???

The boy is well educated, good looking and earning in Euros!!!opcorn:

A girl's jatakam matched well with the boy's.

The girls told him,"If you want to marry me

wind up your things and come to

my country/ my city/ my house.

I am my mom's only daughter.

I will never part with her!!!" :baby:

Does this mean that THE BOY IS A SWAYAMBOO

and has neither parents not commitments??? :shocked:​

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The husband may be making MONEY and opcorn:

his wife may be making him a MONKEY!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Sneezing does more harm to the people around us than we can imagine!

What Happens to Your Body When You Sneeze? - YouTube

▶ 1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cusEzVxqTE8 ​

Jan 11, 2016 - Uploaded by WebMD
A simple sneeze can travel up to 100 miles an hour and spray a cloud of 100,000 germs. Sounds gross, but ...​

Sneeze - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneeze

Such a theory could explain the reasoning behind the traditional English phrase, "God bless you", in response to a sneeze, the origins of which are not entirely clear (see "Traditional Responses To ASneeze" below for alternative explanations). Sir Raymond Henry Payne Crawfurd, for instance, the registrar of the Royal ...

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

YET people sneeze in closed spaces / crowded areas/on the food items kept on the dining table/ into the faces of people they may be talking to/ on the little helpless infants...!!!

Even a gentle reminder may cause a volcanic eruption of swearing and cursing!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I caught bad cold and throat infection from the call taxi drivers several times who have to cough in the car which has the A.C on all the time. More easily so since I sit in the front seat by the driver's side

I soon learned to protect myself by holding a clean kerchief near my nose. If they won't bock their cough, we still can!

Once while in Chennai the driver was drunk to his eyebrows! His eyes were blood red in color and he had difficulty in focusing them on the road.

Thinking back we should not have got into that taxi at all. But we were running late for an important ritual honoring our dear maami and took the risk anyway.

All the same his driving was reported as "drunken driving" after we safely reached our destination!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

pEikku vAzhkkai pattAl puLiya maram ERa vENdum!

Paithiyatthukku vElai seithAl avamAnap pada vENdum !! :frusty:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Whisper to snakes??? :suspicious:

We can't even make humans obey by whispering to them!!!

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[Visalakshi Ramani]

We as kids used to obey all the older relatives... Grand parents, parents, paternal uncles and aunts, maternal uncles and aunts and also their respective spouses.

But here the trend is NOT to obey anyone - besides their own parents.
(This too - if at all - is due the good fortune of those respectable parents)

The popular expression used is "You are not my father / mother!"
I do not blame them. They may know NO relatives other than their parents.

Thanks to the freedom enjoyed by keeping everybody at bay! :hand:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Once while waiting in an airport, I saw a young boy behaving rudely and throwing a tantrum once every 2 minutes. His parents never tried to control him.

When I can take no more (since I am used to associating with well behaved and responsible children all my life) I told him gently to behave properly in a public place.

His mother turned her head towards me like provoked / prodded cobra and said in an ice cold voice, " Madam! My son is O.K!"
If this their "O.K" what will it be to witness a "NOT O.K behavior"?:faint:

Is it true that all children are BORN inherently good and they get perverted as they grow up by their environment and exposures to the ugly things???

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Let us ponder on the Anomalous Expansion of water and its largely unsung blessings!

Solids expand on heating till they reach their melting point. After that they use up the heat energy provided for melting.

Once the whole substance has melted down, it again starts expanding till its boiling point is reached.

This true of all the solids and liquids except our dear friend water and that too in a specific range viz zero to four degree C.

Water contracts when cooled and expands when heated. But when water reaches 4 degree C, it starts expanding when cooled, till it reaches zero C !

In other words its volume increases and its density decreases in that range 4 C to 0 C. Water at 4 C always has the minimum volume and maximum density - whether cooled from higher temperatures or heated from lower temperatures!

This is labeled as the Anomalous Expansion of Water.

At the first sight you will tend to ask,"So what is the big deal - whether water contracts or expands?"

My dear friend! This anomaly makes a world of difference or rather a sea of difference!

Water at 4 C being the heaviest, settles down at the bottom of the lake, ocean, or sea. As the top layer get cooled it goes down too. Thus there will be water at 4 C in the bottom of all water bodies - despite the outside temperature below zero C.

In cooler regions all the water may reach 4 C and further cooling makes the lighter layer on the top surface freeze first.

If the sub zero temperature persists, more and more ice will be formed and the layer of ice thickens. But the entire waterbody will never ever get frozen!

The advantage...

All the living organisms in the sea will have a place to live, feed and breed under the thick ice cap.They will never end up being frozen alive.:dance:

Isn't it wonderful how God (Nature) makes anomalous changes to keep alive His (Its) creations?! :hail: :angel:​

 

[raghuji]

I think they too behave differently when they are abroad.I presume that this happened in one of our airports

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Nothing wears an uglier look than reason -

when it is not on our side. :mmph:


It is nice to have both ends meet. :nod:
It is nicer if they overlap a little.opcorn:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Most people never mature. :baby:
They simply grow
taller/ heavier / rounder...
as the case may be!


Lament of an egotist:
"How very self centered people can be!
They always think of themselves instead of me!" :mmph:

Bitter is patience :fish2: but its fruit is sweet. :nod:
What God makes, he never mars. :smash:

When God helps, none can harm. :angel:

When we are afraid that we may fail,
we are usually very near to success. :thumb:

The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones. :rip:

Be temperate in everything.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Blast from the past! (posted on 1 - 4 - 2011)

(It is wonderful note that some comment always remain topical and never ever become obsolete).

Strange but true!

Life and death are the two sides of the same coin.
They are separated by a hair-thin-line.

Love and hatred are also the two sides of the same coin.
They too are separated by a hair-thin-line!

Cross the line or burn it or cut it... :bolt:
and all the flowing love now gets changed to the lava of hatred!

May be that is the reason the Sanskrit word 'Kamam' means
both the Milky Way of Love and the river of Lava called Dwesha!
Our ancestors were great psychologists indeed! :cheer2:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

வேண்டுதல் வேண்டாமை இலான்
யாண்டும் நம் இறைவன் ஒருவனே!:hail:

விருப்பும் வெறுப்பும் இல்லாதவனை நாம்
விரும்பிப் பற்றினால் இல்லை தொல்லை! ray:

அவனை நாம் மறந்தோ துறந்தோ
அவனியைப் பற்றினால் துயரம். :sad:

உலகத் துறந்து உலகநாயகனை
உவப்புடன் தொழுது உய்வோம் ! ray2:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

ஜடபரதன்.


பரதன் என்ற பெயர் படைத்த
அரசன், மகான் ரிஷபரின் மகன்.
பாரத வர்ஷம் என்னும் அழகிய
காரணப் பெயர், இவராலேயே!

மனைவி, மக்கள் மோட்சத் தடை
என நினைத்து, அவரை விடுத்து,
அனைத்தையும் துறந்து வாழ்ந்தார்,
அழகிய சக்ர நதியின் கரையினிலே.

ஒரு நாள் கண்டார், ஒரு பெண் மான்
அருகினில் ஆற்று நீர் பருகுவதை.
பூரண கர்ப்பிணியான அம் மானும்
நீர் வேட்கையைத் தீர்க்கும்போதே,

விழுந்தது செவிகளில், சிம்ம கர்ஜனை!
விழுந்தது நழுவி நீரில், அதன் கர்ப்பம்!
தாவிய பெண்மான் கரையிலேயே விழ,
ஆவி பிரிந்தது அவ்வழகிய மானின்.

நீரில் அடித்துச் செல்லப்படுகின்ற,
சீரிய கர்ப்பத்தைத் துரத்திச் சென்று,
வீரியத்துடன் மீட்ட பரதன், அதன்
காரியங்கள் அனைத்தையும் செய்ய,

தாயும் ஆகித் தந்தையுமாகிப் பேணி
தவ நியமங்களைத் துறந்துவிட்டான்.
மனம் முழுவதும் மான்குட்டி மீதே!
தினமும் விரும்பிய முக்தி மீதல்ல.

இறுதி நினைவுகள் மான் மீதே இருக்க,
பிறவி எடுத்தார், ஒரு மானாகவே!
பக்தியும், ஞானமும் மறையவில்லை,
முக்தியின் ஆசையும் குறையவில்லை.

தனியாகவே அம் மான் வாழ்ந்து வந்தது,
தவச் சீலரின் ஒருவர் ஆசிரமத்தருகே!
இலை, தழை, புல்லைத் தின்ற மான்
இயற்கை எய்தியது, நீர் நிலையிலேயே!

தவச் சீலரான அந்தணர் ஒருவருக்குத்
தவறாமல் சென்று பிறந்தான் பரதன்.
பாச வலைக்கு அஞ்சி வெருண்டதால்,
மோசம் போகாமல் காத்துக் கொண்டான்.

குருடன் போலவும், ஒரு பித்தனாகவும்,
செவிடன் போலவும், உன்மத்தனாகவும்,
கிடைத்ததை உண்டு, நிலத்தில் உறங்கி,
கிடைத்ததை அணிந்து, ஜடபரதன் ஆனான்.

இறுதி நினைவுகளே முடிவு செய்யும்,
மறுபிறவி நம்முடையது என்ன என்று!
இறை நினைவினில் திளைத்திருந்தால்,
இறையுடன் கலந்திடும் வாய்ப்பு உண்டு!

வாழ்க வளமுடன்,
விசாலாக்ஷி ரமணி.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

In the recent Alumni Meet of my husband's batch I was asked to say something interesting or humorous.

This is what I told them to get applauded loudly!!!

Q1: Who is a happily married man???

A1: One whose behavior is the same - whether or not his wife is around!

Q2: Who is a well bought up child???

A2: One whose behavior is the same - whether or not his/ her parents are around!

Q3: Who is a successful man?

A3: One who manages to earn money faster than his wife manages to spend it.

Q4: Who is a successful woman?

A4: One who manages to get wedded to such a man!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Sadly often parenting can be defined as

feeding the mouths that bite you :hungry:

and eating the words that slight you! :hungry:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Many men do not know how to treat

one or more of these three women in his life...

his mother, his daughter and his wife! out:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

March equinox - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_equinox

In the Northern Hemisphere the March equinox is known as the vernal equinox, and in the Southern Hemisphere as the autumnal equinox. ... In astronomy, the March equinox is the zero point of sidereal time and, consequently, right ascension.‎Apparent movement of the ... · ‎Culture · ‎Calendars · ‎Commemorations

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

One honest and genuine doubt!!!

Why does the Goddess of Fortune smile on a selected few so that they live as snug as a bug in a rug :bored:
while some others get stuck in the muck like a truck? :help:​