Why Kangaroos dont wear seat belts?

I consider my baby too young to analyse and reason out why things are happening in a certain way. But going to school teaches a lot to the kids.Everyday they a read a book at school. Kids are encouraged to ask questions on it. They have discussions on it. Such exercises have good impact on the communication skills for the kids that nowadays she is initiating a conversation or sustaining the conversation for a long time.

In the progress report that is sent to home daily, I would just check whether she ate her food. There are eight different sections, like creative art,reasoning, motor skills, language skills....

One day when I checked the other sections, it was written that they read, 'Why Kangaroos dont wear seat belts'.

I asked her - Why Kangaroos dont wear seat belts?
she said - They are too big, they can't fit in the car seat. So they dont wear seat belts.
I was happy that she listened in the class.Even such an answer is little tough for such a small kid.

Later in the day I asked her the same question - Why Kangaroos dont wear seat belts?
She said - 'Only animals like cat or dog, we will take in the car seat. So only cats and dogs wear seat belts.'

Excited to have received two different answers, I called my hubby and explained him.
He asked her the same question. This time she replied - 'Not mommy Kangaroos wear seat belts. Only joey kangaroos wear seat belt, only babies like me'.

We continued with other conversation and ended up asking the same quesiton again.
'Mommy....(kinda frustrated because of my ignorance), Kangaroos are in deep jungle, how can they come in the car? How can they wear seatbelts?'
We were discussing about other events that happened in school and then slept a little late.

Next day morning, She was sleeping and I was staring at her. A simple question evoked so much of conversation between us. I felt like I need to spend a some time with her. After all, she is not going to be a kid forever. I used to spend lot of time with her when she was 13 month to 18 months. Now it is totally different. Strict work hours, sole responsibility for the household chores and so many worries that keeps growing everyday without any indication of a solution, mind gets completely occupied when you dont learn to live a life at present. I kissed her to wake her up.

We were playing and jumping in the bed for sometime, I asked her the question again - 'Kuttima, kangaroo seat belt pottukuma da?' - she replied - 'Mommy, kangaroo romba big'a irukkum, adhu seat belt potta seat belt break aayidum mommy..'

In a couple of hours, I couldnt help asking her again. This time she gave me an angry stare - 'Dont ever ask that question , ever again'.. (Ha ha,,,,my daughter is growing up :) )

Random thoughts

Long time since I blogged something. Here I go, typing whatever comes to my mind, as I am watching this beautiful snow fall thru the glass windows of my home. All that flashes in my mind is my kid's smile and all lil pranks she does. I always refrained from writing abt her or bunny. Dont know why. And especialy this cute lil thing has been so nice to me, that I wanted to keep all for myself and dont want to share anything with anyone. The way she gets curious abt small things that wont even matter to us. Yday, I was abt to clip off her nails. I brought water in a small colorful bowl, to dip her fingers in it, so as to make the nails soft. Carelessly, I placed it on the dining table and moved to bring the nail-cutter. I thought she was playing with her toys. When I came back, she has spilled the water all over the place and on herself. She had this 'I dont know why I did this, but this bowl looks so cute look'.. Amazing... Kids have this beautiful communication skills.. Using their eyes and too few words.. A month b4, we were abt to sleep, Bunny had some office work and he was sitting with his laptop. She cudn't sleep. She wanted both of us to be with her. I kept calling my hubby. He dint respond. My kid decided to bring her father herself. She went out of the bedroom to him. This is the most wonderful conversation I have ever heard in my life..
My kid : daeee daeeee, (Daddy.. Daddy.. )
My hubby: Aemma. ( What dear? )
My kid: Amma. (Mommy. Meaning mommy is calling you. Come, lets go to sleep.)

She only knows these two words, Daeee and amma.
The tone and modulation in her voice achieved, what I cudnt achieve by shouting for almost 20 min.

Snow blanket around my apartment.

Waiting to sculpt snowman tomorrow...

Resolving to be resolute

Often I wonder why we need a new year or a special occasion to do things that are good for our life. Every year I decide to do some task that I have planned a long time before or to give up some habit. And my resolution lasts for atleast a minimum of four months.
This year, I decided to stay resolute on certain resolutions. But, as I write this blog, I have already violated some of them.
My resolutions,

1. *********
This first resolution cannot be revealed as it a long term top secret plan.
There is a Sanskrit sloga,

Manasa chithitham karyam vachasa na prakaashayeth |
Manthra rakshana goodathma karya sidhim prakaashayeth ||

Plans should not be revealed through words. The fruit of the action should speak for itself.

2. Learn photography

Clik Clik as much as possible using my SLR.

3. Climb up the career ladder.

Have some career plans. Get a job, get back on track.

4. Eat less chocolates.

Every year I take this resolution. I violate this easily. Gimme a packet full of ferrero rocher, I will gobble it in a jiffy.
This year too I failed. Let me try this next year.

5. Diary everyday.

Sometimes, I miss to write some special moments. Although I write in my diary everyday, I wanted to make sure it happens by taking the resolution.


Out of all these, only plan 1 succeeded. All others carried forward to next year (as usual ;) ).

Vibrant fall colors from my window

View from my window in the peak of fall.

View from my window

It is raining from today morning. The view from my window is gorgeous. Slowly, I see a lot snow flakes. This is an exciting sight.. So bloggin...

Crazy Life....

Running like a crazy horse..
In the long weary road
No way to stop
And
No looking back

What makes me run?
What will I win?

My mind flashes...
Thousand valid reasons
Thousand vivid options
Quit, Quit and
Quit running now

My soul rejects,
A long way to go
No way to rest
Run Run Run
Run ahead somehow

I have chores to do
I have games to play
Like a dog
Like a kid

Work, work, work..
Pray pray pray
For the vigor I need
every day

My Life beckons
I don't want to stop,
In a one way road,
No looking back.

An early morning walk

A pleasant walk
A sunshine morning
The chirping sparrows
The Squeaking squirrels
The Lush green lawn
The withering leaves
A melody in the mind
The colorful maples
A cool mild breeze
A fragrance in the air
The golden yellow rays
Still missing something
Its all you dad
to chit chat as I walk
Join me ASAP

With Luv,
Kannu.

Leisure

William Henry Davies had enuf time to write a poem, I have enuf time to enjoy reading it.
I think, people who are interested to do some work will definetly have time to do everything. People, who just sit and relax (or listing ToDos all the time), never find time to actually do anything.

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

Luv U NJ...

Back in NJ after a short stint in India. Landed here sharp at 10:30 AM as scheduled.
I always craved for flight journeys. From my childhood, the take off and landing and the aerial view of the landscape below the flight has fascinated me a lot. The size of the buildings, cars, trees slowly diminishing makes me feel like using google maps slowly minimizing the size of the map. The take off at chennai was at night, the city was twinkling with powerful lights. I tried to identify the buildings, all in vain, but it was fun. Journeys have always excited me a lot. This especially is challenging.

The view of New Jersey from plane was fabulous. Chennai has only buildings and lamps. NJ looks like a forest with some water bodies here and there. Stepping foot in Newark International Airport made me nostalgic. We are not planning to go back to our earlier home, but my hearts longs for that home. The home that is filled with happiness and luv, a great start for our beautiful life, that added a lot of beauty to the powerful bond between us.

Anyways, I missed lot of things.. The starbucks coffee, the clean roads, car drives in the highway, a different fragrance in the air and much more.
I really cudn't believe what is happening. Some things, which we long for, if they happen all of a sudden we may not be able to believe.
I saw a lady smoking today after a year's time, a rare sight in chennai. This struck me that I am in US.

:-) Hope this stay becomes as cherishable as the first one.

Luv U NJ....

Wanna be a Book Worm..

We had a discussion about photoreading in our organisation.
This paved way for introspecting my book reading habit, which has considerably dwindled down as I grew up. I would say I was a voracious reader in my childhood.
But what my dad brought from his library was the only source of books.
My exposure to books was too lil to foster my needs. Slowly I have almost stopped reading anything. Its time for me to revive my reading habit.

So... Wats in my library??

Expecting many more years of this beautiful life..

An year ago, we were looking for a nice design for our wedding invitation
This sloga added a classical touch to our invitation.



Goddess Meenakshi, the daughter of Parvatha Rajan, smiles at Lord Siva during their wedding. Let that smile bestow us with a prosperous life.

My First Email

Ever had a crush on somebody??? If so, U cud have noticed a lot of difference in u.
Elevated energy level, Increase in ur agility. U will put lot of efforts to understand ur crush and try to notice even subtle changes in the person u are interested in, trying to impress him in every possible way. Constant yet careful boasting of ur acheivements, trying to act modest and smart, sharp sense of time, getting up on time even without an alarm... The list is unlimited.

All these and much more, I noticed in me from the day my bunny called me. I remember it vividly, he called me around 7:00 AM in morning on a friday. I felt a different vibration in me when i heard his "hello". Just a casual chat. Still I could hardly remember what was spoken on that day. But somehow I felt Bunny also felt the same vibe. He gave me his email Id. I confirmed it 3/4 times, making sure i have a way to contact him in future. Cudn't speak even for 10 mins as my dad was with me. Longing for the call to last for ever, yet forced to hang up coz of the environment, I left to office in my new scooty.

My new scooty was my best friend at the time. From the day I bought it, I started speaking to it on my journey to and from office as if it were listening to me.
I named my scooty as Bucephalusss(buc).
After my bunny's call, on my way to office, I was silently telling to Buc about all my plans to send a nice email to my bunny. Ok. Only Buc knows about my excitement. After reaching office, I started collecting lot of nice greetings, good morning ecards, some funny emails and a lot of forwards hoping to bring a smile on my bunny's face. I never have worked from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM in office, except on that day. Real hard work to impress my bunny. At around 6:00 PM, I sent my first mail..

I got a reply immedietly. Its not from Bunny but a failure delivery notice. Confused, I sent the mail again. Same result. DELIVERY FAILURE.
What happened??? I typed his email Id again and checked it and sent the mail. Dint work. Frustrated i sent the mail again and again and again without even making an effort to understand the problem. Enuf of sending mails, I closed my system and started back to home. As usual, Buc listened to all my silent lamentations.

At home, I sent another email..

This time I noticed something. My Bunny's email Id had the name 'Gomathi' in it. I have a friend named 'Gomathy'. She uses 'y' instead of 'i' in her name. I got used to 'Gomathy' as she is very close to me. But the common usage is 'Gomathi'. Very much proud of having found out the bug, I sent another email. This time I created an email in the name of 'Buc', hoping Buc would talk to Bunny about me. But I made another mistake. Because of repeated failure delivery notices, I sent just "Test Mail" in the subject and content. I dint send any other information. This was the first mail I sent to my Bunny.

I expected a reply in the morning. Nothing was there in my mail box.

Saturday morning IST is Friday evening in NJ. He might have thought of my mail as some spam. He might not check his official email for another two days.

Monday morning, I sent another mail from my office ID, explaining about the "Test Mail". I got a long reply in the evening, monday morning US time. We started chatting quite frequently. In just two days, our relationship strengthened to such an extent that I received my valentines day gift from my bunny, a timeless gift to show that our relationship will be eternal.

One reason for my lifetime happiness

Can u guess??

Inner Peace

In an effort to craft the beauty of my mind, I was doing a lot of googling about some interesting arts/activities I could learn/pursue. I believe music , painting, dancing and similar activities keep our mind agile, enhancing our concentration on day to day activities. I came across the following in one webpage..

Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:

A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences.
An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
A loss of interest in judging other people.
A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
A loss of interest in conflict.
A loss of the ability to worry. (This is a very serious symptom).
Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.
Frequent attacks of smiling.
An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen.
An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.

Yes, I agree with this 100%. I am trying the above hoping the converse to work. Believe me, the results are excellent.


I take a lot of inspiration from my sweet lil bro
check his blog - http://scriberocky.wordpress.com/

Singing the tunes of my heart...

Following is from John keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn". Once u read it, u get a picture of an eternal music, which is music of our heart, not audible to our sensual ears.. Not sure why i like these lines.


Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard

Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;

Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,

Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:

Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave

Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;

Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,

Though winning near the goal—yet, do not grieve;

She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,

For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!