Indian Married girl in America

Christmas in western countries are not just a day of celebration, it is a season of joy. I was blessed to see their enjoyments in the form of decorations. Most of the people not just decorated inside the house, many has decorated at the front of the house, mainly with lights, Christmas trees and Santa Claus. There are many other houses with themes, cartoon characters and unique decorative items. I found everything attractive. The surprising and different thing, I found among certain group of people is their unity. Yes, people in same street/ area together made their independent decorations into an event by unity. I happened to see such street decorations in  Lubao Avenue and Oxnard Street of Woodlandhills, California. The home owners in this street collectively decided to decorate their houses for visitors and turns their street into a candy cane lane. This has been followed as a tradition by these street people since 1952. People of Woodland Hills are excited to drive through ...

#copy-paste #fbpost I generally don't copy paste in my blog,but doing it now for a reason. The reason is... It is IMPORTANT "'' Its not just A forward but a subtle message for us parents .... Time to think n react accordingly... Few months ago I asked these two questions to my students Ten things you want your parents to stop doing  and.... Five things you want your parents to start doing I got some interesting responses Things I want my parents to stop doing: ---Stop comparing my life with your childhood. Things were really different back then, so stop comparing. ---Stop using these words and phrases: use your brain, are you deaf? Can't you see? Useless, careless, good for nothing....etc.... ---stop showing off my skills. I don't want to dance in front of your friends. I don't like to do that. Why do you force me to sing/ dance or show my art work to our relatives or friends? ---Can you speak softly? I'm tired to hear you shout, every d...

A day out with kids should be fun filled and never tiring one. There is always a difficulty in choosing a destination that makes both parents and kids enthusiastic in one spot. Fun box gives a solution to it. It is well designed and executed to entertain both adults and kids. It has 24 separations within the box(room). Each are designed with vibrant colors and themes to lift your fun mood and impulse you to give crazy poses. Yes, Fun box is the best place to freeze the crazy you in photos. What is in Fun box? Listing out the features of Fun box may affect the surprise that you get at the time of visit. Still, I would like tell some highlights that may give you hope on visiting this place. The attenders greet you into the Fun box with warm welcome and an instruction note. (Good to follow, what they say). The fun begins with the teddy bear tunnel, becomes colorful with giant crayons, attracts you more when you walk through a hanging garden and stuns you with giant emojis etc. Fun bo...

Hi everyone... Hope all r happily ending your weekend. I love to read books, they are more like travelling to different world. I found something special while reading books to my kids. It gave a new experience and satisfaction of travelling together with kids in the journey of books. Now it's time to extend the joy of reading with more kids. As I already discussed with few of you, I will take your kids to a fantasy world in this Christmas holidays, by reading Harry Potter to them. The book has 17 chapters, I will read 2 per day. So it is a 10 days program. When and where? I'm gonna start the book journey from my home on tomorrow(12/17) at 3.30pm. Welcome home with kids. Let this sessions add everlasting memories to mom and kids. My review on Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone book. ( click here )

There was a question arrived in a discussion forum of other educational site. It is questioned, " How long do we stick to "Baaba black sheep"?"  So the overall discussion is around the craze for giving importance to English in early education compared to our mother tongue. The following is my reply and I post it in my blog too, because, this is the same thought that runs in my mind in recent times.  "This topic is very interesting and of course, at the right phase of my life,I come across this discussion. My kids are below 5 years old and we reside in USA. Obviously, learning mother tongue from school is impossible here.  As I strongly believe that the language is the root to a culture, I made sure that my kids are capable of communicating in native language with no difficulty. Even before joining them in school, I teach them Tamil alphabets.  Even at their TV time, I add Tamil rhymes to their playlist.To my surprise, there are awesome Tamil rhymes co...

My attempt for a Friendship Story Contest in ISC Kavya was busy packing lunch for her husband and kid. She heard notification beeps from her mobile. She ignored as usual and continued with her household chores. After she sat back to relax, she laid hold of her mobile. Immediately her face got brighter and eyes twinkled with surprise. It was a mail from Kadhir with some invitation attached to it. Kavya immediately checked the sent list to know whether it is a group invite or independent invite. As expected, it was a group invite. Kavya gave a sigh, "Oh Kadhir, you are still the same" Kadhir and Kavya were college friends. Their roll number were next to each other in sequence. So, they spent lab hours together. Their crazy friends made fun of them for the same. Happy go lucky Kavya did not take it serious, but Kadhir being straight forward and well matured to his age, did not want to encourage such talks. He directly confessed his thoughts to his classmates and Kavya. K...

People whoever in USA with work VISA will frequently be judged and questioned as follows. When will you return? I see this as a million dollar question, for which we generally don't answer, but give more than 4 options, that are short listed from all possibilities. Our stay in US depends upon VISA duration and project deadline, both of which are like Rajini's entry into politics. "Yepo varum, yepdi varum nu yaarukum theriyadhu",(Vandhalum namba mudiyadhu). Earns Million dollars : We live in a society where many are so judgmental. some people misjudge and  have these thoughts on people in US. They think we earn as same as the count of INR in $. Everyone here dreams for it, but businessmen are not ignorant to do such things. Remember many comes to US to finish their bank loans and live a EMI free life. Of course, Onsite opportunity helps for it. Spends lavish:  True, the cost of living is high when compared to India. We are not an economist, but we know that ...

What is respect? Google says "a feeling of deep admiration for someone elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievement." Yes I too see it the same way, "Respect is a feeling of deep admiration". In reality, we see and we show respects without any admiration too. So, respects are of two types. 1. Duplicate respect 2. Honest respect. 1. Duplicate Respect: Some people gets respect because of holding higher power in the name of designation/ wealth. When people are respected for their power, it means they are respected for their temporary abilities. When they lose power, they lose the respect too. Many times, these people pretended to be respected and not really admired. These people are given respect only by words and not much in action. In families, some people demand respect for their superiority in age or relationship with that family, thus many others give them as a ritual to avoid unnecessary agitation at home. 2. Honest respect: People who are...

You may think, this is something irrelevant to my blog, but I tell you, this is relevant to my interest. Like many others, Mahabharatham is my fav epic and I started reading and listening to different versions of Mahabharatham from my school days. All the time, my perspectives used to keep changing, and every time, I observe something new in it. Then I realized, it is the nature of art, the beauty of any art lies  in the eyes of viewers. The same way, the quality of a literature elevate with the readers and their understanding ability. When I was 13 years old, I was not a bibliophile(still same), but Mahabharatham made me to sit and finish it in 2 days. That was a pocket size mahabharatham with only 150 pages. But I could remember many characters and also seeded the ability of character analysis in me. As I said, when the years pass by, my views on Mahabharatam characters and incidents also keep changing. We all know that Star Vijay and Sun TV also came up with their versi...

I write on facts and my own experiences, but creativity is something that I stopped a long back. May be I started to live my life on its flow and I am completely satisfied with whatever happening. Since there is nothing dry, I stopped to dream, expect and imagine anything green.  Then comes a contest to check my creativity.  Photo story contest  to write a story on given photo. It was a guy riding a bicycle. My story is also as simple as the photo. My inspiration to the story is Vetri. He once told me his unfulfilled dream for a cycle and that made me to come up with this plot.  Here is my story  Riding through childhood dreams .  This story got many good reviews and won a 2nd prize ( winners ) in the contest. This is the first story after finishing my school. I could even say, this is my first story too.. because, I no more remember the stories that I had written in my school days. 

I got stuck in a deep loneliness, when I was newly married and flew to US with my husband. It was an arranged marriage, so anyone can understand the time it takes to feel companionship with the partner. Due to geographical change and time constraints, I can't be in touch with my beloved family and friends as before. After my husband left to office, the silence inside and outside house are the same. No known people around me. scrolling the news feed of Facebook, made me feel that everybody in the world are so busy with their lives and I got struck up in an island. Then the fear of missing out has come in me. An idle mind is devil's workshop right. The devil in me made me to think too much and ended up doing nothing but to worry and feel useless. . I wished to engage myself in something interesting. Obviously, that was the time, I was learning cooking. So, I put in some more effort and started exploring in my kitchen and came out with different recipes. I started to take pi...