Whats the Big Deal with Cricket

Cricket is a game, which is played to enjoy a sport, but sadly, Indians have taken it a bit too far. With many news channels, getting new topic to up their TRPs, and newspapers getting something to munch and get response, it is obvious why they are all making a hullabaloo about Dhoni and his captaincy. It is only a ploy to get many readers. This was outrageous, as to how they go on criticize the captain of Indian cricket team. Mahendra Singh Dhoni is and always will be the best captain to have happened to the Indian cricket team.
As far as I observed, Azharuddin was poor with motivation, but had good command over his team, nobody argued his plan, While Sachin was too happy to be the captain, but, he started to feel the pressure of being a captain soon after, which affected his performance. Then came, Sourav Ganguly, who managed very well, for sometime, but when aggression took over, the team completely lost the team spirit. It was often individual play than, performance as a team, under his captaincy.
When Dhoni entered the scene, it was the first time, that a team started performing as a team, and he tried keep all the teammates in a tender and close knit relationship, which would be evident, when the team performed on field. Dhoni never showed his power, it was always gestures that spoke.
He is the only captain, who did not have his performance, get affected, due to captaincy. The most admirable characteristic I found about him was, His way of trusting newbies in cricket. Who would risk such a thing, when a match is at stake, but this endeavor when successful, is applauded by the media and critics, but when it backfires, they are all out there to blame him. It is too bad, that Indian audience, which is cricket crazy, is only interested in winning games, than ranking of a team or its improved performance and morale.
I may be wrong, but this is what I feel about Dhoni and his captaincy. Do support the team and his captain, who has sailed the team through the rough times, with such determination.

Why Do Children Fall Sick For Exams

Oh my God, what a week that was, My darling daughter had exams(I have mentioned the list of subjects in my earlier posts, such lengthy list of subjects, itself had me bothered) and she fell sick, really sick, just on the day of exam. This was not very serious issue, considering she is still in LKG. But what She had to go through and I had to endure, got me tired like anything. I could spare some time for myself, only since yesterday.
She has not been so sick for long time now, My pediatric did not want to take any chances, so she ran her through some series of tests, for Malaria, Dengue, Typhoid and what not. I still shiver when I think of the time, my daughter had to spend in laboratory at the Pediatric center.
It was not like, I had not taken any precautions, as the exam date was announced. I restricted her diet like anything, No oily food, No bakery items, no eating out, Oh my, she must have cursed me from the core of her heart. Even after I took so many precautions, she ends up with a throat infection. Now that's very bad.
I am stunned at, How kids find some or the other way to let the infection enter their bodies. I did not even let her play outside, since a long time now, she is indoors all the time.
I wore my detective cap on and investigated, as to, what might be the reason, and to me, there was no other reason, except, her new bad habit of, chewing and sucking her fingers while watching TV. This happens, without her knowledge, and it is bothersome, because, She also forgets to wash hands, after coloring and painting. So, I concluded that, she got her illness, because of her new bad habit. I am trying to make her correct herself, but, as the saying goes, bad habits are picked up easily, but are very difficult to correct.
Have any of you any tips to offer, or advice to give, that would be helpful, to help avoid exam tensions for a parent, due to sick child. I admit, I was a nervous wreck in the beginning of this week. Only yesterday, I was at peace and had some time off for me, for writing.

OMG!! Exams for LKG

Hello all,
I haven't found myself any time to write, since I was notified by my daughter's school authorities, about exams for LKG.(seriously). They have about seven subjects, that test, writing, oral, memory, hand art, drawing, coloring, general knowledge, conversations skills, and what not. This list, gave me sleepless nights. I was never bothered, even for my important qualifying exams.
All this hasn't had any affect on my daughter, for they were taught these things, at slower pace, in their class work. Sometimes, I feel so bad for burdening my daughter with so many books for LKG itself. We rarely had a book or two, but she has phonetics, numbers, drawing, coloring, hand art, and the list goes on. I hope my little daughter's mind is not too crammed with all this. But when I see her enjoying everything, including art work, I am happy for her.
I think the generation X is going to be, very learned one, after all.

Friends - Are you Connected?

After my graduation in Engineering discipline, I was prepared to lose contact with all my friends. This was nothing new to me. I experienced this, when I finished my secondary schooling, then Intermediate college and then finally my graduation college. By this time, I had a dream to chase, dream about having a comfortable life, where I would not have to worry about a test I did not perform well. I will surely have newer challengers to keep me engaged.
But soon, one is waken off, their dream with harsh reality. The first of thoughts that occur are always, how well were we when, at college. While I was at college, I always wanted to finish education faster and settle into a job, but after the monotony of job life and work pressures take their toll, first people to be remembered are friends. Yes, friends are really God's apology for relations. It is my favorite liner, after I understood the worth of a friend.
When I was in a new place, to begin a new phase in my life, I missed my friends. When I was depressed, sad or was under pressure, I would console myself with memories of my college days. I dearly missed the fun during my study days with my friends.
When I found few of my friends at Orkut I was very happy, but they migrated to Facebook sooner. eventually I also started using it, to reconnect with my friends, and I do not regret that decision even until today. We are in touch again, each are in their own boundary of responsibilities and binds, yet connected with a string called Facebook. I am really so happy to find it.
This post is dedicated to all my friends, from school, from college and every where else I met a new friend. I am grateful to god to have you all.

Career Oriented or Family Oriented

It is rare to find a woman who does not give importance to her family over her career. If she is found otherwise, she is called headstrong or arrogant. It is hard to digest the fact for a man, to find a Woman in power.
How right(or wrong) is it on part of a woman to quit her job to look after her child. Is it wrong any time for a woman to continue with her job, because financial situation demanded it. Women are never given any choice, they have to work, if they are not secure financially, while a few women, who like to work, will have to choose to stay at home, for the sake of their child.

If we keep aside, the facts(or mere observations) from all the research about kid's development being faster and intelligent, when he or she is with her mother than with a care taker, all women would love to get back to work. As far as I am concerned, it is all in the way, a mother brings up her children, even if she is working or not.

A working mother can bring up, kids, who grow up, learning to be independent, and respect elders and others, without being vain or spoiled. At the same time, a woman who sacrificed her job to stay with her child may also spoil him/her child, by attending to his/her every whim and fancy, because she is always available for granting their wish and thus making them dependent on her, for every little thing.

So, the important factor is the way they are brought up, not the sacrifices a woman makes. In fact, these sacrifices are taken for granted as soon as the kids grow up and get used to having their mother do all their jobs. They seem to think that it is their right to have their mothers attend to them all the time.

Women Being Silent

Hi all,
I just read a post on Facebook, which said, If a woman is silent, she is either thinking, too much, needs a hug, a reassurance or is crying inside or all of it. Now, Haven't I heard it so often, about how women are talkative lot.
First thing, Cant a woman be silent at all? I mean there are so many women who are serious kind, who do not talk unless they are very close, while there are few who do not like to talk at all. It is rare case scenario, but there are such cases, and I have seen such women, who simply keep to themselves or do not speak all the time. In fact, I wanted to be one, for I was named a talkative girl, by my mother. But at school, I was the serious kind.
All this talk about women not able to remain silent, seems too artificial to me. According to me, a woman can get acquainted with any new circumstance faster than men, and communicating is the best way to get acquainted. Men do not ask for directions and Women always know, how to find their way ;)
What do you people think?

My Research about Uncinate Osteophytosis

I could not find anything clearly about Uncinate Osteophytosis online. In fact Google instant suggested that I type Uncinate Oestophytes for getting results, which were are all Greek and Latin to me. I then proceeded to consult, my Gynecologist and a Pathologist relative of mine, who taught medical students.
My gynecologist who was also my relative, thought it was nothing to be worried about. But my online search about this(with changed keyword as ''bone spurs'') had me scared, because it was mild form of spondylitis, but I had one symptom that indicated its severity. Neck ache would radiate to head and cause me to throw up everything, even water. I would then have to simply sleep for very long, I once slept for about one and a half day. After which, it would be bearable, but nagging pain is always present in the neck.
I came to know about this condition, from my regular physician, I went to, after that sleep marathon incident. She suggested two X-Ray tests for neck, in strange poses. After seeing the report, she could not understand much either, so she recommended that I consult an Orthopedic.
I went to my regular Orthopedic, whom I had gone to, when I had similar ache for my right shoulder(It was immovable for days together). He simply suggested that it was common condition and nothing to be worried about. He prescribed pain killers to be taken, whenever I had severe pain. I remembered that for getting over my shoulder ache, I had started taking up Surya Namaskara(series of Yoga poses that give salutations to the Sun God) and other pain relieving exercises for shoulder. But, after I was relieved of pain, I completely stopped practicing it.
Well, I then happened to discuss this with a Pathologist relative, who knew the theory well, she said, bone cells growth was more than usual, and this growth at the neck, will cause muscles to get stressed and cause pain. Medication can only help relieve pain temporarily.
To which I asked, how did exercise relieve my pain then? She replied saying, it will loosen the muscles and thus help in movement without pain. I was surprised, How could I get such a condition, I was not very heavy built or one who consumed more milk products, nor had enough milk myself, I was so miser when it came to feeding myself. In fact, My gynecologist had suggested that I take Calcium supplement for the lack of it may result in greater complications, which was stopped as soon as she saw this report about active bone growth cells.
I had very long discussion with my Pathologist relative, who gave me a scare, when she concluded that there are stages through which a person will find himself or herself going through. Initially, there will be mild pain, without any necessity for medication or exercises, the next stage is when, exercise is enough to get relieved from pain, but after a while exercise alone won't help. Medication also is needed, and the final stage where medication is also useless, at which stage, that person will be operated to remove that extra piece of bone growth.
I was horrified, but somehow gained strength and asked her what was to be done, she suggested that I stop intake of rich Calcium foods. I fell very ill, the next day itself. I was then told by my sister that neck ache was due to a thought process that constricted me from taking other's view point into consideration(I had stopped being submissive, since long time now). Now after diet changes, lifestyle changes, some positive thinking and respecting other's point of view has, given me painless days. I am without pain for more than a month now. I am thankful, to everything, every person, every thought that helped me get through this and gain control over it. More on positive thought and daily vedic shlokas that helped me attract positive thoughts, in my coming posts.

A Book Called Secret

Hello all,
Hope you people had a wonderful weekend. Mine was not bad considering I could have fallen seriously ill, if not for my timely change of thought pattern. Well, I follow Louise L Hay to some extent. I was not very fond of such self help books, nor did I believe that these were true, until I started seeing good results to some extent. I wont say, I had a miracle happening there, because it is very difficult to stop bad thoughts from occurring, which is very necessary to observe good results. I had series of complains like back ache, headaches, tiredness, and other aches that would bother me and disrupt my otherwise very hectic schedule of the day. I realized that, I was working up myself, straining myself too much, after I left my desk job(to attend to my six month old daughter), at a Central government lab facility( how I miss those days of research :( ), I started to do more house hold work, become stingy in spending money for myself, I neglected myself so much, I started looking like I have aged 20 years within a year.
That was when my dear little sister(she was no more little, she had grown up and started advising me :)) gifted this book named Heal Your Body. I never had time to open it ;) . I used to have those heavy headaches which will not let me eat, or work, I will keep throwing up and sleep all day. So, she said, it might be food poisoning, and asked me to think that my body is able to digest everything or something similar on these lines. I cant say, I observed instant results, I did find some relief because I had tried many other home remedies to tackle food poisoning. I was finally happy that I was relieved of it.
I observed that changing thought pattern affects us, in the way we feel our body is reacting to pain or discomfort. I started thinking many more positive thoughts, and stick a list of thoughts that I would think about or read out loud whenever I have leisure.
I was so depressed until I found a writing job with a main writer, and am I thankful to her, for hiring me, when my writing was not very good. She trained me, corrected me and guided me as a friend. I will always pray that she be good and keep helping many others. Lets get back to the topic now.

Now, that I understood, that thoughts can change your mindset, I was searching for something good at Osho's website about meditation, for meditation helps one think positive and good thoughts. I then found some magnificent quotes which affected me profoundly. I also happened to read other good books on nature being God. It explained about this connection each one has with nature, which always gives us everything when we seek in right manner. Even God is like that, always forgiving, if we are willing to correct our mistakes. It was then my sister gave me a soft copy of this book called The Secret. It happens to talk something very similar to Nature being God like and giving us results according to what we think is gonna happen.
It said, Nature does not understand negatives, that is, if we think that we are not going to fall sick, it cannot see the thought 'not', it will only see 'fall sick' and makes us sick. I have observed that after I changed my thought pattern to 'I will be healthy', I started seeing results, not instantly though. If not for Louise. L. Hay and the Secret, it would have been difficult to wade through Uncinate Osteophytosis(condition I was diagnosed with few months ago). I will talk about this condition and what I found online about it in my other posts. But, if not for Secret, and a book by Deepak Chopra(title was something like Seven spiritual Laws of success), I would never have found the courage to keep myself going, with my neck ache.

Have a happy weekend

Hi all,
Its weekend here.. and its break time.. Happy weekend to everybody..
 

Scene from a Sentence - Happy were the days When I was a Child

Happy were the days, when I was child, I did not have to worry about earning a living, or about performing good at work place, to earn a promotion. I was so happy to run to school, and meet all my friends. School for us was a place to meet and play. I was never the studious type. I liked playing and discussing about new toys that came into the market, than listen to what our teachers taught us. This sure did not earn a good reputation for me, but nobody bothered. In those days, nobody bothered about grades, at all, what was important was, whether I was going to school or not. I never liked skipping school, would be very sad, whenever I fell sick, because, I missed my chance of meeting my friends.
Me not being studious did not have any bad effect on my future, like failing in a subject. I was always among the one's who was happy and content with getting through the test. My mother used to tell me, '' Son, You can pass a test, even without studying. Just think, how much would you score, if you had given at least a single read?'' I never used to pay any heed to her. But with age, seriousness set in and our bunch of naughty, prank playing boys started to study seriously. We were now called the Good performer's batch, which was a better title than Gang, the prank players, and few others.
After college, me and my friends parted ways, in search of our own destinies. We had promised that we will be in touch with each other, and none of us, broke this promise, until each one of the friends, got their own job and had settled down with a family of their own.
A family is a great responsibility, if you ask me. It means that one can never be worry free like a child. I observed, that I was brooding over managing finances for my son's future. This was all, part and parcel of life, and it taught me, that friends keep coming and going, but their memories stay in our hearts for ever.

Our school was celebrating its Golden Jublee year and invited all the alumni batch students. Many of us, had moved out of the address that was provided in the school records, but destiny had decided that We meet again and so we met. I was the only one who visited this school after getting the Almuni invitation, everybody else came there, to refresh all their childhood memories of this place.
Sure, school plays a prominent role in building a person's character. Me and my friends realized that each day, we had something new to learn even after we think we have finished learning all.  Life presents all its challenges one after other, but the best part of the life is the childhood. Which is why, many say, Happy were the days, when I was Child. 

Phonetics for Kindergarten or Nursery Here

Hi everybody,
With my daughter in the nursery, I thought I will have lesser burden when it comes to making her study until she goes to a full day school, but I was proved wrong. Schools in India have started integrating innovative concepts when it comes to teaching Kindergarten students, who are otherwise called Nursery kids here in India. Any kid aged between 3 years 10 months to 4 years can be joined in the first year of Nursery which is Lower Kindergarten(LKG) here.
We rarely had books when we studied in LKG, but now my almost five year old daughter who is giving her first assessment test this month, for LKG, is studying Alphabets using Phonetics. I was stunned when she said, Mummy, its not A for Apple, its a (and reproduced the isolated sound of a as in cat) and said Apple.
These kids were being taught to recognize an alphabet by its sound. This is quite useful and confusing at the same time.
Useful because, it helps them learn many words and understand their spelling faster. Confusing because, alphabets like C & K, W & V have same sound. I could not even explain her why C followed by H could not give the sound of 'ka' as in Cake, but sounds 'cha' as in Chair.
These are quite complex concepts to be taught so early in Kindergarten, but I am doing my best to explain in simpler terms to her.
I still remember, we learnt Phonetics and right way of pronunciation only during our Engineering, when we had English (which was integrated in subjects to learn,) to make us good at communication skills. May be by the time, my daughter moves onto higher studies, she will have to study a lot more. I am only hoping that this education system does not lay too much stress on these little minds. How many of you had similar experiences here in India?

Blog restored Thanks to Everybody

Hi all,
I am so happy my blog was restored. I must say thanks to the Top contributor YoBoy, at the blogger forum and everybody at Google, who had helped me in some or the other way.

Lots of Help from a Contributor there

Hi all,
I was helped by a top contributor named YoBoy soon after. I had done my research already by then, but it was good on part of this contributor to finish my appeal process for manual review of my deleted blog, properly.
Now, I can say, I have done my part completely. I am waiting for any communication from Google here.
Thanks again YoBoy.

Strange that my other Blog was deleted

Hi all,
I did not expect my other blog on Making Money Online (posting the link which now points to void http://some-tips-for-online-marketing.blogspot.com/) to be deleted, with a reason that it is tagged as SPAM. I was stunned. I keep minimal ads in my blogs, there are not even links to other company websites in my posts, which indicate I am not into affiliate marketing. All my posts are my experiences at various work at home websites I have tried a hand at.
This sounded strange that it violates any of the regulations. I had been seeing in my stats that page views were increasing. This is bound to happen, if one were to update their blog every day, with at least one post and use my Facebook, Google+ platforms to share them. This idea was in fact given to me by Google, in their Help center. With new writing work for a writer, I am able to dedicate some of my time for blogging, about my earlier experiences, and I wanted an explanation as to, how can this be tagged SPAM.
I had been observing few problems with previewing my blog, and had used Blogger Product Forum discussion board to report this matter, but with no response for more than a week. Since I was getting page views from all over, which I could monitor in Google Analytics page, I did not mind this problem at all. I could even check the flow of visitors using Analytics tools, which showed good interaction levels of the online traffic. I was happy that My blog was useful to some point, for all Moms who are searching for a second chance at career. But, today, I got a mail saying this blog was deleted.
I have done What I can for restoring my blog. I am waiting reply from the people at Google. Discussion board is not much help, because contributors are volunteers. They choose to reply to few posts as soon as they are posted, while few posts are left unread, until the user duplicates it. You can check my post with the deleted blog link, at Blogger forum, you will find it has been unanswered since long time now.
I am not complaining about any volunteer or anything, but leaving such big responsibility of handling complaints to volunteers may not be, that good an idea.

Do You Meditate?

Hi,
I was always intrigued by this term ''Meditation.'' I remember when I was child, how everybody used to talk about i,t as if, it is an impossible feat to achieve. I never understood what it was when I was young. My mother just said, ''its not for you, you carry on with your play.'' I wanted to hear this answer, so that I can easily forget all about it. Sometimes we get what we pray and hope for, and I was praying and hoping that she tells I don't need it, when I asked my mother reluctantly, what is meditation, when I was very young.
Now, when I have a kid, to handle, I am understanding what meditation is (in bits and pieces though).

According to me, Meditation is not very tough as it is made out to be. I had read this link on one of the websites for Osho teachings. It said, any work or activity that does not let other thoughts enter our mind is meditation. Take for example, Me writing this, I am now devoid of all other thoughts about my daughter or any other worrying thought, I am just focussing all my energies and thoughts on to putting my thoughts into writing. This is also meditation according to Osho. There are many techniques by which meditation is done, and basis of, all them is Witnessing. We have to become witness of all our thoughts, words and actions, only then we can see our problems with a different perspective.
This may seem easier said than done, but I believe one should not say anything, unless they have tried it with their 100% focus. Whenever I get worked up(I do, even after I know, I have  to simply witness these situations(or people :P) that/who are working me up), I start searching for quotes of Osho on meditation, on anger, on calmness, peace, depending on my state of mind and I do become so much calmer after a good read on these websites.
I am not telling, everybody should sit in meditation and begin to segregate themselves from this worldly pleasures. I believe that pleasure or pain in life is the result of thoughts and actions that we perform and think. It is a lot more deeper than that, and I am just beginning to understand what it is. Good luck to all of you then..

A scene from a Sentence - Happy were the days when I was a Child

''Happy were the days when I was a child''. There was nothing to worry about, nor be scared of. For everything was pure, beautiful and lovely for me. Now after three years into marriage, I am beginning to think that marriage teaches a lot, but there is never a moment in our lives when we think of our childhood and cherish its sweet memories.

Our marraige was arranged, and there was hardly any time for us to meet or know each other, but we had lots of things in common, this was why, we gave the green signal for the wedding. We agreed that the rest of our life, we promise to spend with each other will be used to know each other. I believed one can never know everything about a person. There will always be something that will be forgotten or overlooked. I was happy that both of us thought the same way about marriage and the way to be in company of each other.

We used to call each other and talk for hours, becasue our wedding was fixed in a month's time and I was onsite for a project, and she in some other place. We chatted for long hours, without giving thought to the mundane activities like work. After marraige, we promised each other that we will keep this spark alive, this eagerness to know each other, should be kept alive for many more years to come, it was agreed upon.

We were going great for an year. We had common thoughts about starting a family. With each of us being career oriented, We wanted to start a family, at least a year later. Our troubles started when we finally went the family way in the second year.

I am still struggling to undertsand, where and how did I falter in my promise to her. She started blaming me for ignoring her. I put up with it, thinking, pregnancy does this to women. So, I started reading many articles on parenting websites, I understood a great deal about what she is going through. I sympathized her, and tried to put up with her growing number of tantrums.

With arrival of our son during the third year, We made up saying our son will strengthen our ties and bring us closer. But it was far from that. She was always irritable when it was time to be with me. I consoled myself with spending more time with my son. I used to see myself and my childhood in my son.

But even after three yeays of marraige, I cannot say I have known my wife better. There is always something new to her personality. I never saw how good a mother she was, nor could she see my soft corner for her. It was that, both were tired, fight was the last thing on our minds. We would just sulk silently than open up a discussion and talk about each other's problems. During those periods of silent sulking, I would think about my childhood.

I realized that, all my childhood, I wanted to grow up, and grow up fast, so that I could also be a husband to a wife, be the strong protector to her. I have been my best, so far, but We are yet to understand many more things about each other and the way of life. Sometimes, it just occurs to me, why did I grow up at all? Indeed, ''Happy were the days, when I was a child''

Something about Apocalypse

I was checking all updates on FB the other day and found a strange status message, about Mayan calender, that deciphered and detailed all eclipses with an accuracy of 99.99% and gave time details to perfection. So said the status message, and it ended on a sad note saying, this calendar has no entries after December 21st, 2012. It is said to be giving details only for 6000 years.
Seriously, I do not give much thought to this Doom's day discussions, but I believe that every day is a dooms day, if we are not on right path in our life. So being on right track is just enough. Its what I feel. So, I wanted to post something in the comment which should actually voice my opinion, perfectly.
As usual, I went searching on the net(My favorite past time now), and I hit gold with the first keyword itself, and got a link that had an article named ''Apocalypse not now: Mayan Relic says 2012 not end of time''.

I thought people are stupid, how can anyone measure time in the first place. It is always a relative concept, we have yet to advance a great deal to measure time completely. To think that time stops when a certain Mayan calendar ends does not sound intelligent to me. But this article did give me a valuable piece of information, it said, after December 21st, 2012, a new cycle begins. Everything repeats in cycle after 6000 years.
This did, surprise me, because, If we are going in circles, what does all the development and advances in technology mean to us? I felt that this relic, does maintain its secret well enough, even today, with all our intelligent minds set to decipher it and find the actual truth.

Joke Throwing Light on Our Lives

Hi all,
Hope You all had a good weekend. Here in India, it was a long weekend. Its good to take breaks once in a while.
I read this joke in the morning which made me laugh at first, but this joke had indeed some deeper meaning to it. It is about a woman meeting her old pal, on a street and usual greetings follow, when the protagonist asks what is the other up to, she says, I am into My life around the Town blogging type, and she goes clicking spree with her smart device, without even listening to what her old pal has to say about herself.
This has now become  reality of every person's life. Blogging and talking about their personal life has become quite common now.
We can infer two things from this, one is that, even today, people want to peep into other's lives, than manage their own, and have found a modern way of doing it. This is the reason these personal blogs enjoy higher online traffic.
Second point to note is, that, people do not have time to read these life stories, they want everything presented in pictures. Optimization is the keyword for any sort of web content, even personal blogs are not spared from this. Use of pictures is a way of retaining the audience and making them spend more time on their blogs.
We are always in time saving mode, these days, machines, smart phones, internet on the go, everything is here to save time, but where is all the saved time vanishing? Why are we stressed out and always maintaining a To-Do list. This surprises me more, because I for one, feel I am doing everything, but there is never a day, where in I postpone a task for tomorrow's To-Do list.
Isn't this a tale of every house, every person and every family. Modern times have modern avocations. Do you Agree?

A Scene from a Sentence - Gone with the wind

Gone with the wind, was the contact information of that beautiful lady, because I was lost in my thoughts about wonderful future with her. This is why, Elders said, "Do not count your eggs before they hatch". But destiny will eventually bring her to me, I consoled myself.
It was my first flight to a new place, away from my home, my parents, pals and buddies at the High School. This is going to be tough, I said to myself, when I boarded the flight. The attendant wished me with a beatiful smile, to which I smiled in return, just becasue I did not want to be rude. I brought myself to my seat with diffiuclty, not becasue I had lots of baggage, just because I was heavy at heart, and full of thoughts.
If, it was not for my higher education and dreams of achieveing big, I would have settled in my home town for a small time job.
I was so engrossed in my memories, I did not notice the person sitting next to me, not that I was in any mood for conversation with a stranger.
I tried to divert myself and make myself cheerful with thoughts of new friends, new place and fresh start. Thoughts of dangers and risks, of being alone lurked close by, but then, I turned to see who was sitting next to me, and Am I glad I did that. I saw the most beautiful woman next to me. I was struck by her beauty. Something was attracting me to her. I sat there almost gazing her too deeply and without shame, so that, she asked, Have We Met??
I sheepishly said, "I do remmeber meeting you somewhere, Are you from Orlands?" She said Yes, and we striked up a conversation. Turned out, she stayed few blocks away, to our house, How could I ever have missed such a beatiful face. But I was lying her so much that, I saw her near coffee shop and Pizza outlets, because I was sure that she must have visited them some time.
Then our conversation steered to the purpose of alighting this flight. She explained that she has come in search of higher paying employment opportunities at Australia. I was stunned, then she explained she intended to study and work alongside. It struck me odd, Here I was, using up all my parent's hard earned money to study further and she wanted to earn and study together.
I pledged myself, that I should also become self sufficient as soon as I settle in, at this new place.
I took the contact information from her, the place she intended to stay at, while she pursued to find a job first, and then find herself an University to study.
Part time study courses have made things easier, but I had already paid the fee for a full time course and I could not jump out for a part time study course now.
I consoled myself that, at the first chance, I would go meet her at this place, but first I should finish all the formalties at the University I joined. Then to my disappointment, she did not have anything more to talk to me, and fell asleep. I was just staring her and dreaming about her. I do not remember when I fell asleep, but the sleep was very little and did not give me enough rest I needed.
There was a good 10 more hours of flight time left, and I was praying that she wakes up and talks to me. She did not, so I forced myself to sleep after the breakfast and the lunch. I felt great joy in kissing the piece of paper, on which her soft hands had moved and written the address. I would find myself doing this very often and now with the arrival time nearing, my miserable feeling about leaving my parents at home was gone, new thoughts, hopes, aspirations and dreams had replaced it.
I started to day dream again, about how we would become close, and enjoy each other's company, in a lonely foreign country like Australia.
I was high in spirits and full of happiness when I went in search of taxi after few last words of good bye with her. I took out the piece of paper one last time, and gazed at it, as if my gazing would bring her back to me. A honk behind, startled me and I jumped, letting the piece of paper loose and fly away with the wind, for it was windy there. I ran out to catch it, but the wind had already taken it to other side of the street, where passengers were flocking, I did not have any chance to cross or retrieve it. I scolded myself, for being so foolish, I did memorize the address, but when I tried recalling it now, I was unable to. This frustrated me, for this piece of paper was the only link between me and the lady and now, it was Gone with the Wind.

What Would You Do?

Hi,
I still could not make out why I used to get 15 messages a day, giving me the same IMEI number (357672020057050). A call to the number earlier, raised the curtain off, the suspense to me and my husband. It was quite strange that both of us were getting these messages. We found out that, it was mobile repair service center and this Nokia mobile came for repair, some time ago. It was my husband's idea to call and inquire. I was for giving a complaint to authorities, but he insisted that we call and find out first.
It was no use, because the next day, the messages almost trebled, earlier there were only five a day, but next day onward there were fifteen a day, and this time it was a new number. I did not want to waste my time looking up this number.
My husband thought it was enough and called the new number and warned him saying, if he continued to get these messages, He was going to contact authorities. This did the trick, we are now at peace, My message inbox is not flooded with messages from Track My Mobile.
But a thought is still nagging me, was it a stolen mobile or did the owner actually give it to a repair and service center.
What would you people have done, when faced with such a situation?

Finding Peace Online

Hi All,
These days, one can find everything online. Be it, products, books, music, everything. So I went in search of peace today(Not that I don't have enough of it, Just Curious). Well, Google isn't as clever as a human is, because the algorithms are designed by humans and not God. So, it first gave me links for stores, universities with the same name. I could not even imagine anybody would name their store after, Peace. People are running out of ideas, with naming must say.
I changed the keywords to give hints to the search engine. I must say, it is very clever indeed to catch what I intended to search with a single correction.
I keyed in 'inner peace online' and what do I get, so many links to institutes that offer courses for attaining inner peace, tackle anxiety and this time it indeed meant peace.
If we know what to key in the search engine tool bar, we can find almost anything and everything..
Web has shrunk for sure, thanks to Google and people who were behind its success..

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After waiting for hours she then walked into ocean, to bathe and soothe herself, off the thoughts that tormented her all through the night's darkness. With the dawn, and rising sun, she finds herself, new, alive and with new aspirations and hope. Waves shower her with affection and give her the soothing touch, calm her, and tell her, everything is fine. The sun rays touch her cheeks and forehead and give the warmth she felt, when her mother wiped her tears, with her warm hands. The storm that has risen in the darkest hour of night had now subsided, and she walked into the ocean, not with pain, but with an answer in her heart and solution clear in her mind.
The night had been miraculously magical to her. She found herself musing over her past, and the pain, she gave, to everybody. Her father's death has sure created a vogue in her life, and made her feel very insecure. This walk to the ocean, in the night and wait until the dawn had made her relive all pain, suffering, and learn from it, to deal with it. This has been therapeutic in the sense that she was now not feeling insecure at all. She was free from the fear of insecurity, from the fear itself. The ocean helped her silently all night, by being her companion on a pain filled, journey that ended with, her finding peace.
She was now able to see clearly, what had to be done, she had to just move on, let time heal her, like the ocean that healed her off, the pain she experienced that night, on her birthday. She was inconsolable after she found that her father did know, that his death was nearer and had hidden this from her, but left her a surprise gift to be given to her, at the stroke of midnight. She could not control her tears, that were flowing, not because her father moved on, but because she was so ignorant about her father's condition. Had she known, her father was dying, she would never have argued with him, for as silly a reason like a foreign trip, with friends on her birthday. Her ailing father only wished her to be near her, but she gave greater importance to her ego, that was provoked by her peers, with words like, ''you are grown up now, a major, you have every right to decide.''
If only, her mother did not abide by her father's words, and told her about his condition, she would have made sure to spend all her time with her father and bade him a good farewell. She was so overcome with grief, when she was informed about her father's death, but was presented the gift her dad left her, she could not party any more. She left the party venue, came running to the ocean, and sat on the cold sand, which made her feel worse at first, when she thought how cold would have her father gone now. She wanted to have a last glimpse of her father, but it was not to be done, for she was now, very far away from him. With these thoughts, she walked all night, feeling insecure at first, for she has lost her first hero, who was very protective of her. This feeling gave away, and was replaced with guilt and remorse, how could she do this to her father. She had been his princess all these years, how did she let herself get carried away.
The car keys she was given by the person delivering the car for her birthday fell from her hands. She was battling all night with guilt, and when the rays of sun began to dawn upon her, she started seeing her purpose to live. She has to take care of her mother, now. It would have been the first thing her father would have told her, if she were beside him at his deathbed. Then she realized that life she led until now, always had a protective covering her father gave her. From now on, she has to fight her own battles with her own wit, use the experience of her father's problem handling ability and remember his advices, given in the past to solve any problem that came her way.
She promised herself, that she would do this to perfection and make her father proud. The ocean was calling her to take a soothing bath, as if to appreciate her, for having found the right way at last, and how could she say no? She had to oblige, and after waiting for hours, she then walked into the ocean, clearer in mind and lighter at heart.