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If you have read my previous year New Year resolution , you can skip reading this. Gained weight last year. I need to control it  Please don’t give me any suggestion   I need to learn at least 25 new English words (2 per month and 1 to make it round) and 365 non English I myself will get some resources Email forwards, Orkut, Facebook and now WhatsApp joins the list. So less time there and possibly will try to increase other modes of communication Your suggestions are welcome Clean up non-mandatory things... Will do this year too. Will try to get the photos organised - full year goal Thinking of online storage + hard disk. Do you have any good solution? Will increase the book reading time. I shall choose the books I wanted to read for next 10+ months by January 14, 2017. At least one from Amitav Ghosh,  Preeti Shenoy and few from Osho is for sure What are your favourite English non-fictions written by foreign authors? Will spend time on reflecting

My grand grandfather took my grandfather to the school which promised discipline as its focus. He later understood that neither the care for discipline nor anything was up to even the very basic level. My grandfather took my father to the school which promised quality education. Alas, quality is too relative and the promise and the delivered thing didn’t match. My father took me to the school which promised to facilitate sports activities apart from discipline and education. There was no space and budget for sports in the school. I took my son to the school which promised hi-tech setup for learning and collaboration. At the end, I had to spend all my money to get nothing of worthy. I think there will be a school again promising discipline oriented education and my grandson will go there. Okay, it is not about schools. It is about promises and hopes and disappointments. Generation after generation we vote and elect leaders. I hear hundreds of promises from our politicians in every

Preparing healthy food is not necessarily impossible but it is very hard to eat healthy food as long as you concentrate on taste and cleanliness and even otherwise! #sciencewillsucceed The urge to complete something and not to leave in between increases when you are about to take a break. At least one sentence, if not the current chapter or page or paragraph of a book. #inlifetoo It is not always easy to read the quotes/slogan/captions/… written on the t-shirt on the first attempt, even when you have bright day light. #mind Not all the movies are mere imagination. Not all the books are fictions. Not all the travels are only physically moving. Not all the people you meet are just another person. #lessonseverywhere Nature doesn’t bother about proper shapes for its design. Maybe, it got infinite space. #excellencegotnobarrier

Oh, that stupid dog... I fell from my bike. Though I am not sure whether I got any serious injuries, I feel I am conscious and so I am fine. And my mobile too is so fine with no symptom for any damage. Wow, that is good! Lying on the road, I take a selfie with my bike while its wheels are still spinning and post it on the social media. My beloved friends surprise me by REACTING to it while I am just checking the upload status of the post. There is a fire accident. Alas, it is a textile shop. Fire is dangerously faster when spreading and quicker in destroying the wealth. I take a quick fire selfie to show and spread the news. Of course, news with the tagline: Fire behind The Fire. The researchers are analysing the pros and cons of selfie habit. I believe there are special moments that only be captured by selfies. You can’t always depend on your friends or self timers to take a photo. Your friends not necessarily agree with you on the beauty of the scene and so they won’t help yo

How often you walk on the footways between the bushes and the highway with no lights, in the dark, for about a kilo-meter? Do you get scared? I do :) I walk at least once in a week like this. It is not that I like to walk but I have to. It is hard to walk on the uneven path. I have to be very careful about my steps as a single misstep could cause an injury that would take a week to heal. A little stick lying at a distance making a moving feel because of the shadows of different lengths caused by the speeding vehicle lights would make me pause for a second. I always wanted to be extra cautious on that as I tend to fear of snakes when I go near the bushes. Perhaps, my parents taught ;) me so in my childhood days. How about people? Drunkards: If the drunkard is a old man, I am no longer afraid of him. I am confident that at least I can outrun him. It is still a bother, if I have to pass a group of youths taking alcohol. I walk with the hope that they don't call me or come near me.

Can men and women be friends? Is NO a comfortable answer for you? Let me put this to a more specific case. Can a girl and a boy at age between prime teenage and late twenties be friends? The science and psychology says it is not possible as sexual and romantic thoughts are unavoidable and the relationship takes different direction - could be on either side, positive or negative. If I have to answer this, I realise that first I should have proper understanding on what is meant by friend. I tried to answer few random questions to myself so that I can see more than what I already believe. Can a 10 years little girl meeting a 70 years man in a park everyday be friends? Can a thief in the jail be a friend to a police supervisor there? Can the father who is there with his daughter and care for her every needs be a friend to her? Can the psychiatrist listening to me patiently and understand me completely and gives me the best solution to any of my problems be a friend to me? Is the billio

Even if you have not tried, I hope you heard about the fastest weight loss "7 Days GM Diet" plan. That seems to be working for many. There are people who want to lose weight and people who want to gain weight. You could find thousands of blog posts on diet. And lots of books , like The Dukan Diet are available. But here is the stop for all your search, just follow the below three steps and feel the magic. Step 1. Eat a good amount of Carbohydrates and Proteins Step 2. Take Fat, Vitamins, Minerals and etc. Step 3. Drink Water That is it! Yes, it should be clear to you now that I don't understand these weight loss/gain techniques ;) Not only that, I don't believe much in these diet techniques too, basically because it is very difficult to interpret them. For example, if it says that eating something in the morning is good for health, then first I have to define morning. It can be the time I wake up or the sunrise time. If it is sunrise time, then should it be be

The Kedarnath 2013 incident was real and so was the Mumbai 2005 heavy rain. They were just news and few seconds video clips for me. The Chennai 2015 floods were not as bad as other incidents. Just like everyone here, I too tried to help the affected. There could be Kedarnath 2016 or Mumbai 2017 but I guess I’ll remain not bother about it much even if it happens. Do you remember the Tamil Nadu election 2016? My colleagues, friends, neighbours and people I saw in public places were all talking about change. If you count these people and compare it with real votes, the result is ridiculous, the opposite of what people talked. The illusions! The world is full of illusions that we see as real and the reals that we see as illusions. Once upon a time, the earth was flat! Whether something is real or illusion, if is not good for the society it has to be eradicated. The change in people's mind is a real challenge. You need the time, money, support people, circumstances... to make even a

Streets are kids' playgrounds. You understand this better if you are from a village. You don't apply any traffic rules there. The kids can play whatever they want and it is the responsibility of elders to drive carefully. Have you seen the flashing yellow signals? I started seeing them only since my college days. They mean that you can drive but with caution. You have freedom to go but you should be very careful. You need to watch out for pedestrians and others. It is everywhere - the usual Red/Yellow/Green signals. The rules are clearly defined and you just have to move with the traffic flow. That is a mundane task. You have no control over it. Be a simple man as no heroism is allowed there. You can't easily make wings for your dreams to fly high. Subways (underpasses) are very much helpful for old people. They don't have to look left and right before crossing the road and don't have to try walking faster than they could. They don't need to worry about th

I am speaking to you now but I died several years ago – years in millions, a time that you can't even imagine. I mean, that is a physical death and now I am just one of the good souls wandering here watching you and everyone and everything. It was a natural death and nothing to do with what I am talking here. I was on the sixth and last spaceflight that left our planet and I was one of the 300 crew members.We landed on this planet on the target time: exactly in 82.568 seconds. It was easy task for the level of intelligence and technology we had. We were moving on Maovers, a balloon like vehicle equipped with things for 250 sols. There was red liquid area for about 512 km 2 and the rest were all sand and hills everywhere. On the 13th sol, the tragedy sol, we lost connection with our planet and the Nitrogen level started lowering dramatically and reached almost 10 (of total 250 qs) in 23 hrs. It was impossible to breath without Nitrogen. The Mavoers started bursting and hence mark

I think the beautiful things of nature has no predefined pattern. Red is not a bad colour. Is it? Just like the milk boiling over the pot, this liquid bubbles up and forms the shape that of the lotus leaf on the black background. You won't really find any algorithm to get the curves that smooth. You can find the variation of colour depth elegantly spread at every inch of it. The picture - covering x, y and z axis - looks so wonderful with glistens all over the surface. No artist can draw better than what nature has produced just in no time. Road. Head. Blood. Red! And you worry. And fly a little above, the roads will disappear and it is all different scenes now – lands, forests, seas, volcanos, deserts! If one can make you feel good, the other can make you worry too. And further above, you see Mercury, Earth, Venus... and black holes, rouges, hyper-novas. No comfort even there. You can't escape worrying about something that is not right. And above and infinitely above, yo

போகிற போக்குல மனசத் தொட்டு பொண்ணுத்தாயி போயிட்டா, நீங்க உடனே "அவள் வருவாளா அவள் வருவாளா, என் உயிரை உறிஞ்சியதை அறிவாளா அறிவாளா, பூமி மீது நானும் பிறந்ததிற்க்கு பொருளிருக்கு பொருளிருக்கு"ன்னு பாட்டு கட்டுவீங்க. ரெண்டு மூணு நாளு கழிச்சி "எத்தனை பெண்களைக் கடந்திருப்பேன் இப்படி என் மனம் துடித்ததில்லை. நீ வருவாயோ இல்லை மறைவாயோ"ன்னு புலம்பக் கூட செய்வீங்க. "கொஞ்சம் நாள் பொறு தலைவா ஒரு வஞ்சிக் கொடி இங்க வருவா கண்ணிரண்டில் போர் தொடுப்பான்னு" யாரவது ஒரு பிரண்டு உசுப்பேத்தி விடனும், இல்லான அதுதான் உண்மைன்னு நீங்களே உங்களத் தேத்திக்கனும். இப்படித்தான் காதல் ஆரம்பிக்குமோ? காதல் என்றால் என்ன? இது ரொம்ம சிம்பிளுங்க! ஒரு கல்லும் ஒரு கண்ணாடி உடையாமல் மோதிக் கொண்டால் அதுதான் காதல். சில சமயம் ஒரு சொல் சில மெளனங்கள் பேசாமல் பேசிக் கொண்டால் கூட காதல்னு சொல்லலாம். இன்னும் கொஞ்சம் கவித்துவமா சொல்லனும்னா "இதுவரை இல்லாத உணர்விது இதயத்தில் உண்டான கனவிது"ன்னு வச்சிக்கிலாம். அப்கோர்ஸ், அது நமக்கெல்லாம் புரியாது. உங்களுக்கு உவமையா சொன்ன பிடிக்கும்னா, இது ஓ.கே வான்னு பார

It is funny . Isn't? Here is my list for 2016 Must: Reading books is the topmost promise for this year. It may bring eye strain and trouble my eyesight. But anyway I am going to do. Try: Perhaps a little strange and absurd but I am trying this- Make a short distance (20-30 kms) travel every week with no purpose. I am targeting 250 kms/week (including work commutation about 30kms/day) Okay: Take a journal of dreams that come while sleeping :) ForgetNot : + Rest from the 2015 list . Comparing with previous years, I spent a lot on books this year but couldn't read much. I watched about 20 movies less than last year. Kovil Pillai P.

How blessed your life is! There are people to take care of you even before you know yourself, if not God, it starts from your parents. You find friends. You learn from teachers. You meet people who can guide you. You are given laws and rules to live better life. If you look a little deeper you will realise that everyone and everything are actually preparing you to survive better in this world. No doubt, you still make your impression on the things you do. You still grow and reach higher states. Yet it is only on the same survival ground but at different level. You go on surviving until the eventuality releases you from the pangs of dragging life. No matter how comfortable, how successful the walk of your life is, if the road is paved by someone else and you are directed on it, then I call it a survival walk, survive to show your presence to the world. Can you escape from this and walk on your own direction? Definitely yes, that is what called as dreams and that is what meant to be