Too much planning is no good use

Many a times when I plan too much in advance, I end up in a mess.. Today my friend Chithu had come home. She had told me very much in advance that she wud be coming here. So I had planned well ahead, took sometime and bought nice pink kurti for her. This was almost 2 weeks.
Know what?? I completely forgot to give it to her :( I realised it only when she was abt to board the train in Thane Station)...Am getting really very absent-minded these days ..Need to work on it !!
However had a great time with her today :)

IITs – destiny for a few more: Thats what we think!

The dream destination for the studious “junta” has expanded a bit more from around 3000 seats to almost 7500 seats, over the last decade. Considering the fact that the total number of candidates have also increased, the probablity to get through has not increased after all. So it isn't so much of a good news for this year's batch..
How I wish they had done this 9 years before way back in 2000. Those days(its almost a decade now) we had two levels of screening. After the first level there would be 15000 left for the second level. Out of which around 3000+ would get an admission in one of the IITs. If they had 7000+ seats then, maybe I would have managed a spot amongst the last few seats...It wouldn't have done any good anyways. Except that I would have proudly said “I got an admission into the IITs, but I chose to reject the same” …Too Much!!!!

Speak out and Sort it Out

Life partner, as is rightly termed, is someone with whom you should be able to share any emotion/thought/problem openly without any cover up.This one particular aspect lays a strong foundation in any relationship (more importantly in a husband-wife relationship)
This is easier to practice between people who have similar mind-sets('cos they can relate to the other person's feelings quite well) . This is also quite easy for people who are extroverts who in general can openly express their thoughts to anyone. However by whomsoever it is practised it works wonders
It develops a comfort zone between the two in such a way that after you speak your mind out to your partner, any great problem/obstacle seems smaller and you come to a state of equanimity to sort it out fairly wisely.

Baby Talk - Mazhalai

There are almost 7000 living languages with many dialects in each language.It is interesting to note that, in each language there are certain words that are specially designed by/for kids. Probably these are used thinking that it would be easier for the kids to pronounce the same. However, each kid is creative enough to use new words as he/she feels and these words become a part of the vocab in the kid’s home.
There are certain words/phrases that grown-ups use when talking to kids. Some words that are used in Tamil house-hold (mostly TamBrahm house holds) where there are kids.
“Ummachi” – God
“adi kuzhambu aana pola” – the final mouth of food
“mum mum” – food in general
“thachi mum mum” – Curd rice
“Ta ta polama?“ –shall we go out ?
“thachiko” – go to sleep
“okachiko” – sit down
These are some common words… Apart from these, every word is pronounced by the kid at his/her own will. This is called “mazhalai” in tamizh .(I think its “baby talk” or “babble” in English.)
It is sometimes funny and sometimes cute to see grown-ups talking to the kids in this baby language...
Gradually as the kid grows up the language shifts from "baby-talk" to the so called grown-up-talk ...................