My first blog....

I have watched an interview in a Malayalam TV news channel. The interviewer is not very popular I guess. He has done enough research on the person sitting in front of him. The person giving interview is leader of an organisation supports a particular religion. That leader was trying to say that it is not a religious organisation but that organisation membership is restricted to only one religion. He is saying they are trying do a lot of things for the society. The interviewer pointed out some of the attacks and fights created by the members of this organisation. He had an excuse to say, that was individuals not organisation. The leader was straggle to questions with valid answer but he didn’t agree to any particular point. He tried his level best to control his emotions and tried give some answers even though it was not convincing to interviewer or viewer. I appreciate his ability to stay calm. It is really not necessary to allow this kind of thinking. The issue with this is – th...

One hoppy I have developed in last few month is lessoning and try to learn lyrics of some regional songs. This I have started to improve me flow of language. I have unnecessary pause when talk. It was very funny in the inital stages. I couldn’t follow the lyrics; I have taken the lyrics from internet and try to sing along with song. It was really nice to understand the lyrics and listen to songs. What a meaning they writer and singer trying to convey. I have missed so many songs by just lessoning the tune. The people who ever made these songs are incredibly creative and genius. Actually whole this crazy started when we have carol singing couple of years back. To have interest towards carol was mainly my daughters arrival and lullabies to take to sleep. One of the famous Malayalam lullaby was her favourate, Omanathingal kedavo.... I almost learned that completely. when she was below 6 months old, maximum three times humming this song while I carry her was good enough to put her to...

I always had great friends to help me with my career or academics. One of my mentors advised me to join Toastmasters. This now turned out to be the best advice he has given plus one advice I have implemented.   I have contacted Thomson Reuters Toastmasters official through one of my colleague from my department Venugopal. Murali, president that time invited me as guest for usual meeting on Fridays. When I have attended meeting, I felt very friendly place, I got opportunity to talk and I have met some brilliant speakers too. All these motivated to continue with Toastmaster. I have received manual to practise my communication and leadership skills from Toastmasters. It looked some things really great and a herculean task. Communication manual has 10 different projects to a public speaker include speeches from self introduce to inspiration talk with in front a group of audience. To make me comfortable my past president has offered to be my mentor to precede my speeches. He h...

We have a lot of things in our plate to do on daily basis. My wife started working. To adjust that I have changed my shift to ensure baby sitting in the morning. Wife work between 9 am to 6 pm. I will take care of our baby till 2pm. 2 pm I drop my kid to day care and my work starts at 4 pm and ends at 1am. I will have 6 hours to sleep if no other interruptions before my wife leave to office at 8 am. Even my wife has busy schedule. She woke up at 6am to prepare food, take baby bath and feed breakfast before her leave. We have family time only during weekends. My wife thought resigning before she complete her first month. But I want to see we both are working together for this and build a career for both of us and be ourselves happy. The work is only for 5 days a week but last Saturday she had work as she had company sport day during a working day. I had to take care of my little princess one more day. We all went out on Saturday at same time. Wife went to work and we both went...

My nursery life is something I don’t remember much. I still remember the teachers face and   a vague idea about the food they used to prepare for us. All most all other incidents are very unclear memories. The picture clarity is diminishing day by day. I am really feeling blurt in my eyes. I dont really remember the friends over there. I do remember the location. This nursery was looks like a house but not many rooms. Rooms are good for nursery. But other I remember was my mother had struggled to take me to the nursery. This nursery was away from the bus stop and our home.   She had to walk almost 2 kms to this nursery carrying me. Drop me to one of our family friend’s house near the nursery. Because the nursery opens at 10:00 AM, her office also starts at same time. So we drop me to our family friend’s house on the way to her office. Then she will walk to Bus stop. That was a run not a walk. I don’t know how my mother had this consistent energy. She had kept this in...

I had great teachers or mentors throughout my life. I am so blessed with good people around me to teach me a lot of good things. I wanted to write a teachers day article covering all the people help me to shape up my life. Definitely my mother is my first teacher. One memory I have on initial stages of life is her tips on how to write 8. It was my kinder garden days. My teacher started teaching writing numerical. I had real trouble to write 8 with my little finger. I did face major issue to rotate pencil. I did tell my mother about this. She tried to teach me, she have tried holding my hand and make me write. I dont remember exactly well what all she did. Finally, after she fails everything, she gave a short cut to write 8 without much rotation to my little finger. She knew that I was good at rotate my finger to write 0. She asked me to draw small zeros one above other, touching each other.       Success!! little me produced numerical 8., my own for the first tim...

My daughter is not some who interact with all people at first sight. She takes her own time to mingle. Before she turns 1 year she went to her maternal grandparents place along with her mother. I have joined them after a week. Initial days she was not comfortable with other people. In couple of days she becomes closer with all of them.   I was not sure that she will recognise me when reach there after a week. But to surprise me she recognises me at the first sight. My family stay away from parents. My daughter hardly sees my parents and brothers family. She sees my family friends in Bangalore more she meets her relatives. She is not comfortable to play her own with family friends. She wants mine or my wife presence always when my family friends visit us or we visit them. We all met my family during last weekend in a pilgrim place. My daughter was asking for her cousin (my brother’s son 5 months elder to her) with name. She has started playing immediately they met. She was f...

I have joined a cultural club recently. I have seen that all member of that club is very friendly and give more importance to the fun side of life. Everyone is living for moment and not really giving enough attention for growth or visibility. I have seen two people different from rest of the other people. They are focusing on all the opportunities come their way and more than that they were creating opportunity for themselves. More than that these two people have really great team work. They are really backing up each other. I started loving and admiring them. If one of them comes up with any initiatives, another person support and get that done. My respect over them started accumulated. I have noticed that before they come for a meeting, they will discuss each other and come up with a better plan to get acceptance from all. I had all the prise for them and I have taken their story to my home as well. I told my wife that we should like these two people. They are bringing a ...