Diabetes.........It is troubling me a lot. I am fed up of this disease. I cannot eat whatever i like to. Only limited numbers in anything i choose to eat.
Cannot eat bananas, sweets, appam with coconut milk, sugar as a side dish, payasams, kozhukattai......blah..blah...blah............
Moreover even if i am strict in my diet, if I am not going for a walk, this also not controls the diabetes and i am worried now.
I am not at all able to be regular in a morning walk, strict in my diet too......Do not know, where i am going to end with.....UTI infection is killing me and my mood too..
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
Traffic manners in Chennai
Ooooooops!!!!!!! It is a big adventorus event to travel from one place to another in chennai. When you commute in auto we curse the car and bike guys and when we commute in our car we curse the auto and bike guys. No one in chennai has a social awareness and no one wants to follow the traffic rules. If there is a small lane space, the BIG Innova wants to overtake all the vehicles beside it. What a shame on Chennai people? No one cares about other people.
The next big thing is tolerance. No one is wanting to wait for the traffic to move. They just keep honking each other. Oh my God!......I cannot just tolerate the 'Beep' 'Beep' sound they keep doing, even when the traffic is smooth. People create the stress to other people easily by just honking and making them to go speed or go and fall some where. Why this hurry in the morning? Why no one is responsible? But everyone wants to reach the destined place to keep up the responsibility they hold at their respective offices, schools, colleges and at home. But why no one want to take the responsibility of being human and take the ownership of the roads and the places they commute and why no traffic manners!!!!!!!!
I FEEL ONLY EDUCATION AND BRINGING DEEP DOWN AWARENESS AMONG PEOPLE ONLY WILL IMPROVISE PEOPLE AND STANDARD OF LIVING.................
WHEN THIS WILL HAPPEN???????????????
hmmmmm........ the travel from my home to office today was so horrible and adventoureos which made me to write this blog today......... I am not happy in this monday morning and i feel depressed due to the traffic and congested population......
If i have 2 BIG WINGS... i fly down some where in this world for a while, be alone for a while and rejuvenate my feelings and come back to this PIG STY to live for ever as i am destined to live in this Chennai and its traffic...........
The next big thing is tolerance. No one is wanting to wait for the traffic to move. They just keep honking each other. Oh my God!......I cannot just tolerate the 'Beep' 'Beep' sound they keep doing, even when the traffic is smooth. People create the stress to other people easily by just honking and making them to go speed or go and fall some where. Why this hurry in the morning? Why no one is responsible? But everyone wants to reach the destined place to keep up the responsibility they hold at their respective offices, schools, colleges and at home. But why no one want to take the responsibility of being human and take the ownership of the roads and the places they commute and why no traffic manners!!!!!!!!
I FEEL ONLY EDUCATION AND BRINGING DEEP DOWN AWARENESS AMONG PEOPLE ONLY WILL IMPROVISE PEOPLE AND STANDARD OF LIVING.................
WHEN THIS WILL HAPPEN???????????????
hmmmmm........ the travel from my home to office today was so horrible and adventoureos which made me to write this blog today......... I am not happy in this monday morning and i feel depressed due to the traffic and congested population......
If i have 2 BIG WINGS... i fly down some where in this world for a while, be alone for a while and rejuvenate my feelings and come back to this PIG STY to live for ever as i am destined to live in this Chennai and its traffic...........
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
"Nel Vasanai"
Have you heard of "Nel Vasanai"...... I had an experience to have the "Nel vasanai". Last week we visited a amman temple at periapalayam. On the way back, towards "Red hills", it was an excellent drive with nice picturesque atmosphere. Both sides of the road looked like a green carpet full of paddy fields. We stopped at one place to take a few pictures and once we got down near a paddy field we smelt an excellent 'Nel Vasanai".......... Good experience......
I Love Paddy Fields!!!!!!!
I Love Paddy Fields!!!!!!!
Monday, November 20, 2006
My Honest Maid
14 years before i was introduced to my maid called 'sakkubai' by my mother-in-law. She was working for my mother in law in the morning and evening. She is a very very good human. Never never we could find such a kind of honest woman in the world. She is so attached with us. She has a son and a daughter. Both of them got married and were staying near by our nagar only. She loves my daughter like her own kid. When my daughter was 1 year she started to take care of her when i went to my work. She used to lift my daughter to her school when she was in L.K.G. She used to feed and take care of my kids like heaven. She is so attached. But my husband is little bit in difference in treating her. She eats lot of pawn and my husband never likes her, because she used to look little bit ugly too. She never takes bath unless otherwise we keep insisting her.
But i always look at her heart. So plain and so honest. One should have experienced her honesty and cleanliness in her mind. We always call her 'Ayah'. Meanwhile for a period of 3 years we had to go to US and still she was working for my mother in law looking after all her household work. Once we came back from US and settled down, she came back to us to work with us. She is very loyal to us and never never touches anything from our rooms. Even if we keep a lakh rupees she will never touches it. Once my husband kept around Rs.1000 in his jogging pants, and put it to wash. She just gave back and said, it was there in the pants while she was washing. Once i left our bedroom door open with all almirahs open and still she was sitting at the hall telling me she got afraid to see that i forgot to lock the room and she was sitting beside it all day. What a woman she is.....I cannot forget her in my life. At times we used to yell at her, but still she loves us.
She gives aways all her earned money to her son every month. She never keeps any money with her. She always says, she does not need any money for herself at all. We give all basic necessary things to live with, so she never expects anything else from anyone of us. Eating habits used to be so good with her. She never even picks up one banana in our absence. She waits everyday for me to come home to get a coffee....Oh my god.....she is a great lady. She takes care of my house and its neatness like anything and never allows me to do any single cleaning job. Good hearted lady she is.........
Today, her son came and picked her up stating that she has become very aged and old, and everyone of his relative is questioning him it seems, stating that why he has allowed her in another person's place. Therefore , without any heart i Sent her away, begging her son to look after well...
She is a good woman indeed and was an attached person with me. I think today, whole day she will be crying all alone, as she loves me and my children. She could not part from us, this morning and started to weep like a kid. But what to do, even thinking of her age, even i had to make her go.........
Now, i am doomed with out a honest, nice, loyal servant who never complains, never wanting to eat tooooooo much and without any expectations. I have never treated her like a servant and always thought she is one of our family member. She is good and beautiful in her heart.
Let GOD make her happy at her son's residence.
A weeping soul for a honest maid..........
But i always look at her heart. So plain and so honest. One should have experienced her honesty and cleanliness in her mind. We always call her 'Ayah'. Meanwhile for a period of 3 years we had to go to US and still she was working for my mother in law looking after all her household work. Once we came back from US and settled down, she came back to us to work with us. She is very loyal to us and never never touches anything from our rooms. Even if we keep a lakh rupees she will never touches it. Once my husband kept around Rs.1000 in his jogging pants, and put it to wash. She just gave back and said, it was there in the pants while she was washing. Once i left our bedroom door open with all almirahs open and still she was sitting at the hall telling me she got afraid to see that i forgot to lock the room and she was sitting beside it all day. What a woman she is.....I cannot forget her in my life. At times we used to yell at her, but still she loves us.
She gives aways all her earned money to her son every month. She never keeps any money with her. She always says, she does not need any money for herself at all. We give all basic necessary things to live with, so she never expects anything else from anyone of us. Eating habits used to be so good with her. She never even picks up one banana in our absence. She waits everyday for me to come home to get a coffee....Oh my god.....she is a great lady. She takes care of my house and its neatness like anything and never allows me to do any single cleaning job. Good hearted lady she is.........
Today, her son came and picked her up stating that she has become very aged and old, and everyone of his relative is questioning him it seems, stating that why he has allowed her in another person's place. Therefore , without any heart i Sent her away, begging her son to look after well...
She is a good woman indeed and was an attached person with me. I think today, whole day she will be crying all alone, as she loves me and my children. She could not part from us, this morning and started to weep like a kid. But what to do, even thinking of her age, even i had to make her go.........
Now, i am doomed with out a honest, nice, loyal servant who never complains, never wanting to eat tooooooo much and without any expectations. I have never treated her like a servant and always thought she is one of our family member. She is good and beautiful in her heart.
Let GOD make her happy at her son's residence.
A weeping soul for a honest maid..........
Friday, November 17, 2006
Hostile neighbourhood
Finding a good neighbourhood is a mountainous job now a days. We settled at our residence in RK nagar close to 1 year before and till date, we do not have one good friend from our neighbourhood. People are so hostile and does not want to talk to each other OR nor even bother to say a 'hi' or a 'good morning'.
Recently i attended Sri Sri Ravishankar's AOL and to practically use the teachings i had there, one day, I greeted my opposite flat female with a "hi" and a "good morning". First thing she did not responded for my greeting and second thing, she utilized my greeting moment to remind me of the flat maid salary contribution, which i had not paid yet. I felt bad. Yeah......one part is that i had missed out to pay that amount earlier, but what i expected was, a reply for my greeting and in a nicer way to ask for the maid's salary.
Similarly, my downstairs female. She is of another type. One rainy day, we had to use her cloth drying string and she came up allover and asked me to remove it as it was her property!!!!!!! But at the same time, she uses our car park for her dog and she never feels for it. What a neighbour i have.
Another guy, who is always grumbling about our flat promoter and never has an intention to speak to us also.
One thing is final......As per AOL We should never complain about others, and never grumble about others. But we should always, live in the present and opposite sources of people always co-exists and we should try to be good with them, though they are not good with us. We should never complain about them though they complain about us.
I think, i will die without a good neighbour ever in my life!!!!!!!
Recently i attended Sri Sri Ravishankar's AOL and to practically use the teachings i had there, one day, I greeted my opposite flat female with a "hi" and a "good morning". First thing she did not responded for my greeting and second thing, she utilized my greeting moment to remind me of the flat maid salary contribution, which i had not paid yet. I felt bad. Yeah......one part is that i had missed out to pay that amount earlier, but what i expected was, a reply for my greeting and in a nicer way to ask for the maid's salary.
Similarly, my downstairs female. She is of another type. One rainy day, we had to use her cloth drying string and she came up allover and asked me to remove it as it was her property!!!!!!! But at the same time, she uses our car park for her dog and she never feels for it. What a neighbour i have.
Another guy, who is always grumbling about our flat promoter and never has an intention to speak to us also.
One thing is final......As per AOL We should never complain about others, and never grumble about others. But we should always, live in the present and opposite sources of people always co-exists and we should try to be good with them, though they are not good with us. We should never complain about them though they complain about us.
I think, i will die without a good neighbour ever in my life!!!!!!!
Horrible experience with a cook at home.
Keeping a cook at home. First thought of this idea came up to my mind is creating a 'problem' at home.
Sometime back myself and my husband thought we will keep a cook at home for the following purposes:
1. To prepare the food ready by the time we two reach home and can have some quality time with the kids.
2. To go for a relaxed walk with out any house hold chore confusions.
I asked our house maid to arrange for a cook and one fine rainy day, she brought one middle aged woman and to look from outside she was healthy and clean. My husband always give value to health and cleanliness and he said, let us say OK to this cook and asked whether she knows to cook. She said she knows everything. I opened my common sense and told, you may know to cook, but you may not know to cook for our taste. So she should be learning for few days from me. She also accepted the same, and the cooking process by her went on well with a few initial hiccups and she started to do chappathis, subjis, sambar etc.... After a few days, she did not turn up and when we called her, she said, the salary should be atleast Rs.50 per day. I became worried and furious, but my husband said, let her come and let us pay Rs.1500 pm.
She again started all over. Till......
1) Everything went on well till i asked her to make one extra curry or asked her to cut some vegetables for the next day.
2) My husband's intervention in telling the menu's like the ones which she doesnot know to make either or it is not possible to make with in her time limits. [She will never work beyond 1 hour ..that is between 7pm to 8pm]
She started to get irritated and she will not do perfectly.
What is a cook's job
1) Need to start cooking with the menu
2) Before starting to cook check for all the items which are bare minimum necessary for the item to be cooked
3) If not available, should ask the people around at home, and ask for an alternative menu
4) If available, if someone has given wrong measure of the cooking, should be able to asssess and cross check wither the one which was said was right(because once my husband asked to make little curd rice, to be eaten along with chappathi.....She kept 1.5 tumblers of rice with 100 ml of curd available in the fridge. She neither asked how much curd is available and whether 1.5 tumblers of rice is necessary to make at that night)
Basically, i thought that cook is a fool and no brains. She never communicated with us properly. Always grumbling to go home within 1 hour and no taste also. Always partial cooked subjis. Oily currys. Yak!!!!!!!
At last I stopped her for 2 reasons:
1) I can never change my husband's mind set up, who will ask for unreasonable, incompetent menu at odd times. And he even interferes whenever i try to convey some thing to her with a new menu. Therefore who ever the cook, they cannot co-operate at our home, as there are 2 minds in the backend of the menu which will never work out.
2) She was poor in communicating and did not wanted to improve and she never wanted to become a customized cook for us.
hmmmm.......finally I am back in the journey of cooking at my kitchen.............................
Sometime back myself and my husband thought we will keep a cook at home for the following purposes:
1. To prepare the food ready by the time we two reach home and can have some quality time with the kids.
2. To go for a relaxed walk with out any house hold chore confusions.
I asked our house maid to arrange for a cook and one fine rainy day, she brought one middle aged woman and to look from outside she was healthy and clean. My husband always give value to health and cleanliness and he said, let us say OK to this cook and asked whether she knows to cook. She said she knows everything. I opened my common sense and told, you may know to cook, but you may not know to cook for our taste. So she should be learning for few days from me. She also accepted the same, and the cooking process by her went on well with a few initial hiccups and she started to do chappathis, subjis, sambar etc.... After a few days, she did not turn up and when we called her, she said, the salary should be atleast Rs.50 per day. I became worried and furious, but my husband said, let her come and let us pay Rs.1500 pm.
She again started all over. Till......
1) Everything went on well till i asked her to make one extra curry or asked her to cut some vegetables for the next day.
2) My husband's intervention in telling the menu's like the ones which she doesnot know to make either or it is not possible to make with in her time limits. [She will never work beyond 1 hour ..that is between 7pm to 8pm]
She started to get irritated and she will not do perfectly.
What is a cook's job
1) Need to start cooking with the menu
2) Before starting to cook check for all the items which are bare minimum necessary for the item to be cooked
3) If not available, should ask the people around at home, and ask for an alternative menu
4) If available, if someone has given wrong measure of the cooking, should be able to asssess and cross check wither the one which was said was right(because once my husband asked to make little curd rice, to be eaten along with chappathi.....She kept 1.5 tumblers of rice with 100 ml of curd available in the fridge. She neither asked how much curd is available and whether 1.5 tumblers of rice is necessary to make at that night)
Basically, i thought that cook is a fool and no brains. She never communicated with us properly. Always grumbling to go home within 1 hour and no taste also. Always partial cooked subjis. Oily currys. Yak!!!!!!!
At last I stopped her for 2 reasons:
1) I can never change my husband's mind set up, who will ask for unreasonable, incompetent menu at odd times. And he even interferes whenever i try to convey some thing to her with a new menu. Therefore who ever the cook, they cannot co-operate at our home, as there are 2 minds in the backend of the menu which will never work out.
2) She was poor in communicating and did not wanted to improve and she never wanted to become a customized cook for us.
hmmmm.......finally I am back in the journey of cooking at my kitchen.............................
My experiences with AOL - Sudharshana Kriya
I am not a strong believer of GOD and i always feel that there is a super power beyond..which is driving us all. Few years before, my husband attended the AOL basic course and told about his experiences. I did not believe though!. He insisted me to signup for the course and i was keep on denying it. One fine day, i saw an ad in the local newspaper, that an AOL course is planned to be conducted to the opposite of my house. My husband forcefully made me to enter into the course. The first day was an introductory day and everyone of the persons, who had gone through the course already expresed their experiences and nothing fascinated me either. The course went on smoothly and the second day of the course they taught us the famous core part of the AOL...."the great 'Sudharshana Kriya". I started to take up the process with some reluctance in my mind, as my husband had already gave an hint about it. But 'wow', once we completed the process, i did not wanted to speak with any one. Wanted to observe silence for ever. So cooooool!!!I felt good, in all the consecutive days and have started to practice at home too as per the teacher's direction. Once i have undergone the course, i browsed through lots of websites speaking about the kriya and their experiences(both bad and good), so much criticisms on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, stating that he has not taught anything new to the people and has commercialized the old wine into a new attractive container....etc.......But nothing disturbs me, I honestly appreciate this guy Sri Sri Ravishankar that he has come out boldly to teach his experience in his life. Good or Bad it is upto us to follow. He is not compelling any one in the world. No one is compelled to buy any books or ayurvedha products.Once i had a chance to visit his ashram at kanakapura, Bangalore also. One who gets the charitable money, needs to be spent in good way and i feel thats what Sri Sri is doing. I will come back to this blog, once i complete my kriya practice for at least 30 days to tell my experience. Now it will be too early to share with. But right now i feel very good and likes to be silent always. Have a clear mind to think about.
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