Hi all,
Its weekend here.. and its break time.. Happy weekend to everybody..
Its weekend here.. and its break time.. Happy weekend to everybody..
It has posts that are a good read, when in leisure.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
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.
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.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
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?
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
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-
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.
I did not expect my other blog on Making Money Online (posting the link which now points to void http://some-tips-for-online-
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..
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..
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
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''
Monday, August 20, 2012
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.
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?
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?
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