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A TRIP TO OUTER SPACE – -BY DHRUV

2023-01-26T11:23:00.000-08:00

Here come's another story by Dhruv. This he has completed on 28-July-2020, still wondering the way he picked the story line when the theme was presented to him. He continues to type the story with the flow as if he's typing ABC.... His characters are from United States and it happens there, although we never know how it feels to be in the United States. But you know, imagination does not have any boundary and that's how the trip to outer space takes us. Hope you would enjoy the story, the way I enjoyed.

When it comes to me for proof reading, I do the proof reading to my abilities and have not asked him to correct any of his writings as the thought process and imagination is not mine. I prefer to read and not a arduous critic & have no impact on his imagination. Ok, it's time for me to take you into the trip to outer space. Have a safe, fabulous, fantastic journey!!!

A TRIP TO OUTER SPACE – -BY DHRUV

“Aah!” I gasped to breathe. Someone or something cut off my oxygen tank. I struggled to suck in air more ferociously as I saw that something. An alien. It had some kind of mandibles and was pink in colour with fly-like eyes. It surveyed me and headed in my direction. It seemed to know I was weak. I slowly closed my eyes as I gave up and waited.

Nearby, Bill rushed in my direction as I dropped to the ground. How did I get to this point? Well, I hope I can survive that long to tell you.

1 month before…

“Come on. Let’s go that way.” said Bill. I disagreed with him reading the sign on the board. “No people allowed.”

“Please??”

“Fine.”

Where were we? In Area 51, Nevada. Yes, that area where people say aliens spotted, US Military only allowed and all that stuff. But, as for me, I don’t believe in aliens. I didn’t know how harshly my belief in them would be recorrected.

We climbed the extraordinary tall fence and proceeded into the area. It was filled with dead grass and other stuff. We proceeded further into it.

“Aw man, this place is a disappointment. I say, why don’t we come here at night? We’ll stay here until then.” Bill said.

“No, but—”

My talk was interrupted by a look, a Bill-kind of look, the one where I-knew-I-was-right was strongly exhibited.

“Fine!”

So, we set camp there for the night. Time passed as we saw nothing, not even a slight movement. It soon became 3 pm. We were getting ready to leave when we saw it. A bright light illuminated the area as something oval-y landed.

“An UFO” I realized.

That meant…

“I told you aliens existed.” whispered Bill.

“Zorbnac Glorporu.” said an unfamiliar voice.

“What?”

“Translating…Language detected – English. Converting…Put your hands in the air.” the translator of the alien said in a dramatic voice.

We did so. The alien pointed the laser like thing towards our backs. “Move.”

“Hutesds. Retrte Hutesds.” beeped a thing inside the UFO.

“A warning? What? Oh wait, I’m in English.”

He went inside the UFO to check it out.

“Ok, we don’t have much time Bill, we need a plan.” I mumbled.

“Say sorry?”

“No.”

The alien turned towards us.

“Run!” Bill screamed.

I didn’t budge. You see, I was busy looking at something else, a woman with a sci-fi looking gun behind the alien. He didn’t seem to be aware of this. She shot it.

“Have to investigate him. Of course, it didn’t snub the light out of him. It’s a Miescher 41.” she said. “Now what about you guys?” she menacingly added.

“Uh…We…Uh”

“Come with me.”

We followed her. I gave a last glance at the alien. It stirred.

“Uh, mam?”

“No. Just follow me.”

The alien headed towards her, who was last in the line.

“But…”

“No buts. Just come.”

I had no other choice. I snatched the gun from her and turned towards the alien, only to see it waiting. It sent a blow to me that left me in a heap on the ground.

“Ow.” I moaned.

“Aah!” she screamed as the alien headed closer.

I painfully got up and did what was right. I grasped the gun and shot the alien. It groaned and fell down, knocked out.

“Thanks.” she said, brushing some dirt off her coat.

“You know what, maybe you two are useful, after all.” She pointed to a part of the fence.

“Your 2nd test. Shoot that. If you are normal, you can’t see it.”

“What is there?” Bill asked. Even I couldn’t see it at first.

I concentrated more. And there, I saw it. A miniature telephone with a button – Press Me. It seemed 2 km away.

“Yes, it is around 2 km away.” she said, as if reading my thoughts.

I went for the chance and shot it. It hit the target with 100 percent accuracy.

“Wow!” she said, obviously impressed. “You both are selected. You,” she said pointing at me.

“Jack.” I interrupted.

“Yeah, Jack, you are selected for your shooting skills. Bill, you for your running skills.”

Saying this, she took out another gun, loaded it and shot us.” It seemed like a tranquilizer dart.

“Sorry, but no one can know about the secret headquarters, except an agent, of course. Your third test awaits. If not, I have this forget-lipstick-taser.”

Hearing this not so comforting words, I blacked out.

“Huh?”

“Hey, where are we?”

“NASA headquarters.”

“You mean, we are in Washington DC. That’s real far from Nevada.”

“Yes, now for your final test. You know what, you saved me. Leave this final test. You are recruited.”

“But NASA is—”

“Oh, some people give NASA- National Astronautics and something because we study space? Seriously, that’s lame. Our actual form is National American Secret Agency. We study space because of the aliens lurking in it.”

“Aliens?”

“Like the one you saw.”

“Oh.”

“What about Bill?”

“He is already recruited.”

“How did we get here? I mean—I am an agent, right?”

“You go to Tailoring Ricky, get inside, go to Staff Only and then open the cupboard. Shuffle around the dresses until no staff is there. Then go inside the cupboard and speak, “I am 2-9-0-8-2-3-6. That’s your code. Everyone has a different code. Once you say this, a button will appear. Press that and you will be sucked inside from a tube under your feet. And, you arrive. See, it’s simple.”

“Whoa! That’s cool.” I exclaimed.

“Totally.”

“Now, go on to the mission hub and check whether they have a mission in store for you. Bill is in the next room.

Take him too.”

I got up from my seat and headed in the next room, where I saw Bill playing Space Pirates with a robot.

“Hey, finally. Hi Jack. What took you so long. Come on let’s go to the mission hub.”

We proceeded, taking aid of the signs. That’s when we heard an announcement.

“Jack and Bill are requested to come to the Board of Directors room.”

So, we headed there, unaware of the big mission we were to be handed over.

We knocked on the door and pushed it.

“Ahem, we have some news for you. You have a mission. We have found 7 aliens who we think pose a danger to Earth. So, we need you two to go and investigate them. Thus, best of luck.” You will be taken by our driver who you already know.”

“Hey, it’s the woman who I saved.” I exclaimed.

“So, what you waiting for? Shuttle up. By the way, my name is Kyle, not the-woman-you-saved.”

And so, before we knew it, we were being launched into space. Our spacecraft jerked a bit from time to time. Earth’s magnetic field, as they say in books, is strong.

“Space junk!” Kyle screamed.

We somehow avoided them all.

First, we all felt nauseating. But then we got adjusted and the view was incredible.

To pass the time (a spacecraft only travels at around 8km/hr), we told FACTS about Earth and space.

When we look into the night sky, we actually look back in time! The stars that we see during night are actually very far from Earth and so we are actually seeing how they looked in the past by maybe around 25 years.

We are all made of stardust since every element found on Earth (including us) comprises of stardust.

The Earth was once purple. All credit to some ancient microorganisms.

Right now, we are travelling thorough space at a mind-boggling speed of 66,000 miles/hr. It’s surprising our bodies can’t feel anything.

What’s so great in a minute? In a minute, 6000 lightning flashes hit the Earth, one is 5 times as hot as the Sun. That means 100 times a second.

Earthquakes can produce gold. Many elements, such as gold, are located below the Earth’s surface.

You might be spinning at 1,000 miles/hr depending on your location.

Cosmic dust. Ah! The magical mention of it gets you stirred. But chances are, on your way to school, you’ve already inhaled it. That’s because 60 tons of cosmic dust falls to Earth every day.

The oceans hold $771 trillion of gold in them.

We don’t know who named the Earth “Earth.” Earth is the only planet that wasn't named after a Greek or Roman god or goddess.

And so, we ended our facts session. Obviously, we didn’t know a lot of facts. I wanted to continue. But we had a mission and space didn’t show its deadly side until now. Soon, we reached the point where the farthest pic of Earth was taken by Voyager 1.6 billion km away.

Days passed on until….

“Hey, look at that.” Bill screamed. It was a planet, a beautiful one at that.

“That’s the planet where these species were spotted. And now my job is over. I just got to drive you to here. Bye.” said Kyle in a calm voice.

“Wait, you can’t leave us here like— Aah!”We landed with a thump on this planet. We started exploring it when we encountered the alien.

This is my life story probably. I think it ends with, “The alien got me.”

“Hey, he’s waking.”

I stirred slowly.

“Hey, I’m alive. Again. And I’m inside my oxygen tank.”

“The alien meant no harm. NASA guys conformed.”

“Ok, I got scared. But, wait, then why did he cut off my oxygen tank?”

“He thought it was something you’re carrying. He repaired it too.”

“O-ok.”

“So, job done. The alien doesn’t want to attack Earth.” I radioed in.

“But there are 7 and your friend is only 1.”

Someone banged on the door loudly. It seemed they would barge in any moment.

“Zorhfpsgh Lopilurt.” said the alien.

“Barricade the door.” Bill screamed. He had a translator in his hand.

Before the alien could do it, the door bust open and 6 mean looking figures stepped inside.

Whatever the aliens said, it translated it.

“Trapped. You come with us, little brother—”

He dragged the alien away.

“Your planet is going to be destroyed.” It said pointing to us.

“Hello? Is anyone there?” the radio shot up.

“Yeah, me. The alien was—”

“I know everything that happened. We got to save our Earth and the friendly alien. Follow them.”

We did as we were told. Two humans with MK 41’s walking against the skyline of this planet VS 6 aliens. It would be kind of a hard fight, considering they knew this planet better.

“Kloiork xghty, maters.”

The aliens turned around. They left the little alien and headed towards us. It was just the perfect Western Cowboy background except it was on a different planet.

I thought it’d be a classic film fight. The villains be polite and come for you one by one. But the aliens clearly didn’t see any movies. They came at us all.

What happened then was a disaster. We lost the fight in 2 seconds. Everything just happened so fast. We ran towards them but it happened suddenly. We were pinned down with guns pointed our backs.

“Go in the volcano.” said the translator.

We climbed it. It was not that tall but it was really hot. So, they we were, about to get skimmered like roasted kebab. It was hopeless. Earth was going to be destroyed.

We messed up on our first and last mission.

“Jump when I tell you. We want a perfect picture. 3…2….

—"

Boom!

A loud noise shook us all. Another one accompanied it, only louder. Someone was bombing the planet. Could it be…

“Kyle!”

“Hope on guys.”

The friendly alien ran and caught up with us.

“What is going to happen to this planet?”

“I’m sorry to do this. I’m going to put this planet in a black hole. No permanent damage done.”

Saying this, she did the grim actions and off we went, back to Earth.

3 years later…

“No, the new recruiter? 3 tests, not 2.”

Now, I’m head of NASA. I have never travelled into space again. All was fine until…

“Jack, I’ve got a problem.” Bill rushed into my corner office. “We found 10,000’s of them same aliens on another planet.”

“What, we almost failed with 6 and now there are 10,000’s of them?”

“Yes, and we need you.” “So, back into space?” Bill asked.

“I got to face my fears. So, yes.”

I headed down the stairs.

“Hey, F.A., you’re coming with us.”

“Yes, in just a second.”

By F.A., I mean Friendly Alien. He can now speak English. But, no more bragging. We’ve got a mission ahead of us.

So, bye. See you next time.

Thank you for reading this story. Hope you like it.

"WHAT I NOW THINK OF THE STORY THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE” BY DHRUV (22-JUNE-2020)

2023-01-22T11:08:00.000-08:00

Let me introduce the author of this thought process - Dhruv our Son, 14 years old now, who is passionate about writing and used to pen during the Covid times in 2020 (at the age of 11) for some of his friend's group in Kuwait. Thought of sharing some of his thoughts in my blog.

Apart from writing, he is interested in pencil drawings and his ability in making portrait drawing always fascinates me, he is also learning Keyboard & shows interest in English songs, Hindi songs (thanks to his mother) and occassionally some Tamil songs.

He's a learner and we wish him that the learnings will give him an edge in his life.

All the best Dhruv, I am publishing your writing in my blog without your permission and would keep his writings in my blog till he lifts off with his own web or blog (Hope you do not mind, Young Writer!!!).

Note: Here's his writing, no changes were made and hope you will like it and would seek your advise and blessings.

"WHAT I NOW THINK OF THE STORY THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE” - 22-JUNE-2020

The fable Hare and the Tortoise is a story we all have heard. It is basically about a Hare who is confident of winning in a race with the Tortoise and thus midway falls asleep. But, the Tortoise keeps going on and even wins the race, to the dismay of the Hare. The Tortoise represents a person who takes their time through life so that they don’t miss anything. The Hare represents how people who rush through life can miss the true beauty of it.

The world is grappling with the nuisance of Covid-19, which has sieged it by storm affecting lives physically, socially, economically and emotionally. This has urged scientists and researchers alike to find a vaccine and a cure for this deadly virus. One of the best stories made is the Hare and the Tortoise. But humankind, to survive, needs both. Let me explain in simpler terms. Humankind needs the agility and speed of the Hare to develop the vaccine but should not fall asleep i.e. should give it its required attention. But we also need to be like the Tortoise who is slow but precise and always accurate. We need to make a vaccine with precision and need to take one step at a time which humankind is following through clinical trials but should not be too slow too. In uncomplicated words, without further ado, let me end this by saying that a time will come soon when people will be roaming around, seats full in a cinema, highways charged with traffic and shops once again crowded as people celebrate when the last Covid-19 (I think it should be renamed as Covid-20) patient recovers and is back to health. People will still carry the scar of Covid-19. But we should learn a thing or two from Mother Nature. It is unpredictable. If we move too fast, we will destroy ourselves. If we move too slow, the pandemic will destroy us. To win (develop a vaccine or cure), we have no smart option except to move at a medium pace (our Indian ancestors giving a hint how to solve this problem through the game of chess), same as our competitor (in this case Covid-19) ……

Amanushyam!!! Do you believe in Spirits and my experience!!!

2023-01-03T11:29:00.000-08:00

Good day everyone.

Many of us do believe in Spirits (not the spirit what you thought!!!). It's not the bodily thing!!! Be it the western side of the world or the eastern side, there are many stories and experiences!!! There are huge super hit horror films that literally made us to pull out our legs and look across for support. Are spirits are for real, we are always fascinated to know about the unknown after life. This Universe is a mystery, we are trying to find out the answers scientifically. But be it science or any other field there's always an assumption that is made with conscience. So we tend to look into spiritual way of thinking. We Human's are gifted to move over and we constantly are in search of beyond the reach. We want to know about the evolution and God's particle. We want to know the mystery behind the formation of the known and unknown Universes!!! We are also gifted with technology now and we want to communicate with other parts of Universe.

We can easily find an Atheist, but finding someone who doesn't fear ghost or does not believe it is rarely rare. Hope everyone has a story associated in their personal life. One of my story is still a mystery to me. Let me share...

Every story happens in either dark or odd times in a day. Mine happened to be on a full moon day and this experience was during my second year of my engineering at Thanjavur, Tamilnadu. I shared the house with a medical house surgeon in a rented accommodation. Our's side portion of the main house, where our house owner & their family stays.

Our portion had a room and a kitchen, front door and rear door. A small corridor is common where there's a common door (that is locked in the night) for main house and side portion. Rear side of house where there's a garden, well, separate toilet & bathroom for us. And a compound wall with a main door. This is the first house in that road and except for adjacent house there were sparsely houses here and there, might be 2 or 3 more.

After having dinner with friends, as usual I cycled to my place. Routine work and went to sleep. My room partner was on night shift and house owner family was in the main portion. I used to sleep in a mat in ground floor (which normally people slept during those days).

I fell asleep and I don't know what happened but felt suffocating & not able to breath. I opened my eyes and figured out some silhouette squeezing my neck sitting on my chest. I'm loosing my breath and still trying to figure out what is happening to me!!! My struggle is hopeless as the silhouette is gaining its grip and I'm loosing out. My mouth open, no sound coming out, trying to shout to get the attention of house owner in the main portion. Everything in vain and with all might I am trying to tell God's name and gaining my inner strength, I pushed that silhouette.

That silhouette just got stunned and I got up, it just passed through the closed front door. I panicked, but not in my senses, I opened the front door of our side portion that leads to a small common corridor. But the silhouette, just moved back into the house and I am madly running behind it. It then passed through the rear closed door to the garden side and literally I am behind it, unlocking the heavy metal of the wooden door.

The silhouette was standing outside, it just moved here and there & I wanna catch that which is now playing with me, teasing me. If someone watched me, they will just wonder what happened to this guy who's frantically running here and there in the garden that too in night. And just it happened, the silhouette climbed the well and went into it. No senses, I just climbed the parapet wall of the well and ready to jump into it. What next happened is God's grace, I saw the reflection of the full moon and stopped with confusion what I am into.

This pause has not pleased the silhouette and it came out of the well and entered into the house. I jumped off the parapet wall of the well and ran into the house. Now silhouette was standing in the corridor that has grilled window and grilled wooden door.

The key to this door and outside door will be kept in a nail near the door. I grabbed the key and opened the corridor door & main door. Now I am outside the house next to main road. I am not in my senses and although in night time, there will be absolutely no vehicle in that road. The silhouette was making me to follow it and I was running towards the road and believe me or not somebody was shouting & heard horn yonking, which made me to stop my freaking running chasing invisible silhouette. The shouting and horn was from the lorry driver, it was nick of the time I was saved from getting knocked & crushed by the lorry. Silhouette just vanished above the lorry.

I was standing in the main road with my trousers & vest and bare footed. I now realised, what happened and walked towards the house. Still not able to believe what I went through, I closed the outside main door, corridor door, switched on the light in the room, then closed our side portion door and the rear door. Still trembling and not believing my luck & blessings. My belief in God and blessings & wishes has certainly kept me alive.

So, what do you think?!!! Do you believe in spirit (now you think straight, spirit is Amanush...). I believe in Uncertain that is Mightier than All.

Let's live happily and wind off the negative energy from us.

உயிரெழத்தில் இறை துதி. மனதில் பதிந்தது.

2022-09-02T08:56:00.001-07:00

Vanakkam. This post is for people who knows Tamil and have interest in Tamil lyrics as well as admiration of God being an omnipower present anywhere!!!

I am not remembering from where I read this song but during my college days, i think. And do not know who has written too. I tried to Google it and search the internet, but not found it. Anyone can post in comments section, if they are aware of it.

It's simple and written in 12 sentence and each sentence starts in vowels (12) of Tamil language. I thought, it's good to log it in this blog so that the unknown author (to me as of now writing this blog, 02-Sep-2022) will be remembered for the classic Tamil verses.

I am rewriting the verses, I read somewhere but attached in my neuron. God bless all with all the goodness!!!

அகரமெனும் ஒலிதனிலே அனைத்தொலியும் அமைந்தாற் போல்!!!

ஆக்கலுக்கும் காத்தலுக்கும் அழித்தலுக்கும் நீ முதல்வன்!!!

இவ்வுலகும் மேலுலகும் எத்தனையோ பல்லுலகும்!!!

ஈசனென போற்றுகின்ற இறைவனுக்கே எம் வணக்கம்!!!

உலகமெனும் தோட்டத்திலே உலவவிட்ட எம் தாயே!!!

ஊக்கமொடு கல்வி நலம் உதவிட செய் தந்தையே!!!

எண்ணுடனே எழுத்துணர்வும் எனக்களிக்கும் நற்குருவே!!!

ஏலாதன ஒழிப்பனச் செய் ஏற்பனச்செய் சான்றோனே!!!

ஐயனனென உமைப் போற்றி அடிப்பணிந்தேன் வாழியவே!!!

ஒன்றெனும் பொருள் நீயே உவமையின் பரம் நீயே!!!

ஓதுதற்கு எளியவன் நீ உலகத்து உயிர்ப் பிணிக்கு!!!

ஔடதமாய் அமைந்தவன் நீ அய்யா நின் பதம் போற்றி!!!

Hope you enjoy the beauty of Tamil language and depthnesss in simple expression towards God, Mother, Father, Teacher, Scholar.

Whoever the person penned those lyrics, salute from my heart.

I will try to translate in English if possible.

God bless all with all the goodness!!!

Online is the new discipline!!!

2020-06-26T10:44:00.000-07:00

Online is the next thing to health now!!! Be it companies, institutions, governance!!! The big feat is the online classes and virtual meetings!!!

All virtual applications MS teams, Skype, Lifesize, Zoom, Google... have come out big to respond to this situation. World would have shrunk virtually to individuals wall's. Reaching out would have been ever thought like this. Online is the new mantra. Backbone office are meant for software companies only and other industries never ever thought of 'Work from Home (WFH)'. Now almost all the industries have adopted it. The demand of virtual meetings have soared heights.

This has mandated Online is the new discipline!!! Everywhere online meetings have become a necessary, particularly educational institutions. To narrow it, schools have adapted quickly. Children would have spent their times either on a fruitful manner or passing through the times.

Schools have sprung up from the blackboard to digital board. Few schools that had digital platform for educational curriculum was fast. Online classes was new for us, it had it's own challenges, not only to the schools, it is a great challenge to parents.

Schools has to organize the formalities, rules, regulations, infrastructure and way forward. Now coming to the parents, the list was and is, as a minimum:

# Internet

# Laptop(s) for more than one child. And another beauty is when the parents are working from home and has to give their laptop for their kids.

# Timings (For parents, who need to get to work) and when working from home.

# Background restrictions moving around for parents, particularly mother's.

# Sound Control between online classes and office meetings.

# Other amenities such as desks, rooms, connections...

Now coming to the point, Online is the new discipline. Children has to organize themselves for a new system, which they were mostly using it for entertainment purposes. Yes, turning the laptop and/or TV's for educational purposes. Few challenges for them:

~ Time - joining the classes in time.

~ Etiquette - maintaining the decorum that the online classes requires. Many kids would become restless and innovative in between the online classes.

~ Parallel talking, Avoid

~ Concentration

~ Time management, to complete the works within the time frame.

~ Watchful eyes of Parents.

~ Distractions, Siblings or from others.

Plenty to add, if I take an interview with students who have online classes.

Main thing when we talk about Discipline is that the classes are online. It's difficult for the teachers to look into all the students at all the times online. Self discipline is the new online mantra, students need to perform good when there's no one is there to watch them.

The success of a person depends when no one is there watching the right or wrong. Good has to come from within even when no one is around. It's the attitude that matters, education is to build up this attitude. It's not meagre degree that will help one. It's the attitude which makes a person keep going on.

Same way, many work from home. How fairly they are working? It's self discipline. Task is assigned and output should be delivered within the boundaries. What's our responsibility? It depends on each individual...

Freedom is costlier. It does not come for free. If you want to know anyone, give them the freedom and we will come to know about them. So, comes the rules and regulations to ensure that freedom is respected by all.

We have got a chance to deliver our goals from where we are. Let us fulfill the tasks and responsibilities with conscience as there's no one is there to watch how we are fairing. Online helps us in developing our self discipline. It's online is the new discipline!!!

Social Distancing!!!

2020-04-03T07:23:00.001-07:00

Social Distancing... Self-isolation... Essential outing... A plenty of it emerging... This is all about Vital Information and Resources Under Siege (VIRUS), which is keeping all of us not running in despair, but to be in isolation, helping for the betterment of everyone of us and hoping for the best to overcome the Siege, the World is into...

None of us were prepared for this... A global pandemic was declared... In an era of 5G, where communication is boundless. We all are restricted to our own walls... Reaching out was far more easy with the technology giving us the speed of travel, however we cannot move... We have become immobile... A Limbo...

We Humans are basically social animals, we were constantly looking for exploring the new. It happened in the past and continues... What we thought as distraction, is helping a many. Yes, now we are more into the world of gadgets. Glued to the mobile, laptop, television... The world is what we see in these... A quality of our life was spent with gadgets and no time for family and friends... Now it's back to square one. Keep social distancing from the society and at the same time with the gadgets, because when we come out of this siege, we would be under siege by the gadgets...

Take this time, to learn more about yourself. This is the time to learn to be Hungry, Aloof and Awake. Hungry to learn to know about the Good in you, Aloof from the material world and Awake your innerself. This is an opportunity for us to overcome the weakness in us. What we thought is essential has become a meagre illusion!!!

We are able to

- stay inbound.

- have home made food, that is delicious.

- wait for the institutions to come back.

- deeply involved in family.

- look nooks and corners of home.

- care for others.

- learn new skills.

- focus clearly.

And many more things to add...

Not all the things, we wanted would come in ease. We need to wait, struggle to achieve. Because, the need of the time is to be alive. Stay healthy and stay at your place. A sort of meditation it is... Social Distancing has become a Security Deposit for our soul to remain in the body. Nonetheless to say, self-discipline what we have been taught comes pretty handy. This self discipline helps all, it makes life pretty simple... No need for others to watch, we watch ourselves for the betterment of all.

The power of people lies in their thoughts emanating the goodness. The goodness should reach out. Believe. Have faith. This phase would pass... Nature is blooming back. Let us put our efforts and let us be responsible.

Nothing matters now. The essential is more visible. What happens after we come out of this seige? This is the time, we need to be cautious. The lessons learnt is much costly, whether we are going to be self disciplined?!!! Let's throw away the negativities and be helpful, resourceful and most importantly self-disciplined with right attitude.

Let us be thankful to all, who are tirelessly working for the betterment of us. Each and everyone doing their best so we remain safe. We have to be grateful and salute the heroes, leaders, medical professionals, protection forces, hygiene personnel, essential industrial force, administrations, governance and not the least, we Engineer's too. Let us move forward by being responsible and maintaining the Social Distancing to keep the world a better place to live!!!

God, Oh my goodness!!!

2018-09-16T12:44:00.000-07:00

My previous blog was about 100 year bill, the goodness and the need of the time, "To be human".

It's true as years passes by, the need of humanity also grew stronger!!! Technology makes us to feel that we are great, we forgot to be grateful and deviated from the goodness!!!

So what is goodness?!!!

God, the omnipresent!!! God who gives us peace and who guides us in every aspects of our lives!!! What I wonder is in the name of God, we deviate from the principles of goodness.

What is life made in reality? I would say, It's the balance of good and bad!!! It's the balance of what we sow and we reap!!! And when we give the goodness, we reap it in multiples. This goodness is the God we search eternally, who resides in each and every one of us.

Life is simple act of doing good to yourself, ourselves and all. But, what we do is an injustice to the Godly system, the goodness!!!

What we have inside us has become hatred, selfishness, ego, anger, lust, and plenty of inappropriate qualities that makes the God in us unbalanced.

The creatures of God, the whole of the universe and other universes is beyond imagination. All the process God made is more than perfection. God is the origin and the end!!! God is self created, the secret beyond the black hole!!! A big bang is not just a scientific process, it's Godly matter!!! Only God can create such a lovely miracle, in which we are living!!! God has blessed us with the goodness!!! It has multiplied a lot, though the graduation was not seen by plenty of living beings!!!

Science is constantly behind the Godly matter. We most probably get all the answers through science. Why it is taking so long to know what is God?!!! Why science is not able to make us understand God? Because God is not superficial!!! God is beyond the physical reach.

There is always a solution to every problem. Sometimes 'No solution' may be a solution to a problem!!! So science may not and will not succeed in getting oneself to God!!! So if there are no proven methods, then what will make us to understand and realize God!!!

God is within us!!! It's the goodness of what we are!!! There is no need to leave the necessities to link yourself with God!!! Because goodness exists in you. It's origin of God, which makes you to feel brim with happiness, that makes your soul to brim with energy, that makes you to come up with confidence, that gives you clarity to life and plenty of appropriate qualities in you!!!

The more we have goodness in ourselves, the more Godly we are!!! Let us orient ourselves in our goodness within us. We need to attach ourselves to the goodness within us and nourish it. Once we become part of goodness, we will be part of God, the creator who made us!!!

Let me praise all "May God bless you and the family with all the goodness". Because, Goodness attracts love, love attracts kindness, kindness attracts happiness, happiness attracts peace, peace enlightens knowledge, knowledge gets you to understand. The process of goodness is infinite as like God!!!

Let us practice and follow the goodness within us!!!
And that's God, oh my goodness!!!

Take care.
With lots of love,
Sathish Kumar. P

My email to friends on New Year 2010...

2018-09-14T06:16:00.003-07:00

Dear All,

A good time to all.

I was browsing my email and came across an email to my friends on new year 2010. Still the email is valid for all of us. It reminds me of the 100 years bill. A have sent a personal message (email) to all, be it family and friends, instead of sending a new year card. I feel a kind of connection with my messages. Seems I have to renew this messaging as long as Blogger facility is available.

The new year 2010 email message was as below:

Dear All,

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year 2010!

May God shower His blessings upon you and your family!

Looking around the path I have crossed makes me happy, frown, sad, excited and many more can be added to the list. Every moment has passed and turned into experiences and I believe the same could be for all of you too. Wish we could have learnt more from what life has taught us. Around the world there are clashes out of creed, language, colour, money, race and many more we can add. At the same time we can relish on good things happened around the world.

What life is leading us to? We are entering in another decade! What lies ahead? A blank…

Uncertain is future, there lies everything. What leads us? Firstly it is the faith, then hope, and then comes rest whatever you want to add. We all live on faith hoping whatever our deeds are, will succeed. We are shaken by the outcome of our deeds – Success or Failure. Nevertheless of the result keep moving ahead. Remember there is only one life with 100 years bill. How long this bill will succeed? People think about the successes they have achieved, but remember we have not come to taste the success always, because the 100 year bill will fail one day. What makes you success really is “To be a human”. The need of the next decade is more humanity in each and every one of us. We need more patience to achieve this humanity.

Let us join our hands and welcome 2010 to bring love in others life. If people around you are happy ultimately you will become happy. Do more to our fellow humans in this decade and decades to come.

Have a nice year ahead!

With Lots of Love,

Sathish Kumar. P

From the above new year message, still the message stands good is:

The essence is that life is uncertain, however we proceed to move further, in hope and belief. We have learnt and will be learning each and every second. Success and failure are two sides of a coin, the toss is not in our hands. But the path we choose, be it success or failure determines what we are and where we are leading?!!!

Till date, there is only one thing required from all of us, "To be a human" with the qualities of love, kindness and more I can tell it is goodness. The essence of goodness dictates the whole of our life and lives of others. A small touch of goodness will matter a lot for many. We will never know, what impact we can give to others. We may feel that we are not important, as a normal person leading a life, where day to day activities are hard. But still, we never know, what we are to others. We send an invisible ray of goodness to others, knowingly and unknowingly.

Be sure to cultivate the goodness in you, which I will be coming up in my next blog "God, oh my Goodness!!!".

See you soon with all the goodness.

Take care.

With lots of love,

Sathish Kumar. P

Motivation and Determination (Be yourself)!!!

2017-03-04T06:26:00.001-08:00

In last blog, I wrote about how Our friend learnt the art of keeping an account. There's one more thing I observed in him. How to change the lesser into finer!!!

He kept the tab of the expenses. At the same time, he lived the life he wanted to be!!!

He changed the lesser situation into a finer situation. He oversaw the negativity. That's how he made himself.

He hasn't bothered about the dressing sense. But by wearing the odd ones in finer manner with a smiling face made his way. He used to wear red pant and contrast light green & white shirt. He randomly picked the pair which suited him. He made the way by a big salutation with hands high and a 'Vanakkam'.

He wanted a canvas bag, but saw an opportunity to deliver a stylish Jolna cotton cloth bag. He put it across the shoulder and moved with confidence. He made it a trend. He even got an opportunity to deliver Jolna bags in the next semester holidays.

He hasn't bothered to shave, but trimmed his beard. He was not worried about what their lecturer would think about him. He was cool, well mannered with their teachers and fellow students. So it never bothered anyone. His pleasant smiling face made his way.

It's not the material things that matters but how we utilise it matters the most!!! The lesser into finer, never bother about the worthiness of the material. The worthiness comes by the way we give it to it. We add our value to the material!!!

The value we give to materials and fellow living beings differentiates what we are. In today's world, we are touched with the obsession that material things brings. Let us value others by their behaviour and not what they have.

I learnt from him how to change the lesser into finer. He made me to respect all irrespective of
what they are,
who they are,
how they are...
He made me to understand that looks doesn't matter but how one should value oneself. He changed the inabilities into abilities.

Let's us make a change by changing the lesser into finer.

Motivation and Determination (Keeping an account!!!)

2017-02-21T10:20:00.001-08:00

Keeping an account...

It's all in us, how we behave and believe in it when life moves on. How we get affected by the unexpected twist and turns in life? We may roll down or move with life but with an internal impact in our behaviour...

Not everyone is perfectly good. Let us see some good things we can grasp even in negative personalities.

I knew a character whose actions were turned out to be somehow positive instead otherwise...

I requested him that I will take some references to quote motivation and determination. He half heartedly nodded.

One such incident is how he cultivated the habit of making tab of the expenses.

Our friend has to solely depend on the money he has to get from his relatives as he lost his father at the start of his teenage. His uncles, aunties, grandparents are kind enough to support him. His mother stood behind his growth.

But this has not made him to start writing the expenses. When he has to join the Engineering college, he had some wish list as he will be staying away from home of his own.

The wish list was straightforward that he needs a canvas shoulder bag, black shoe, Khaki uniforms, Shaving sets including shaving cream. Looking into the wish list, it's a normal requirement of a person to stay away in hostel or at some boarding. But he is dependent for the financial part. His world told that "still he has to join the college, but see the wish list". It was a blow to him, he was filled with tears.

He was not depressed as he knew his situation. But inside him something came out positive, he was determined to keep tab of the expenses. He cultivated this habit of writing his expenses and took a summary on which area his expenses were. His category was Travel, Food, Education, Entertainment, Medicines, Miscellaneous.

Every month he saw where he is spending, where he has to limit and what to expect.

He knew what was his monthly requirement, he analysed yearly expenses and more importantly he understood the income, debit, balance sheets of life. It made him to realise one thing is to respect the money - Not to tell lies to get the money. To forecast what would be his daily requirement, weekly requirement, monthly and yearly requirement. He knew the categories of his expenses. It made him to look into the aspects of savings too. Though he could have saved the money instead he valued the humans.

Money is what people look into while he learnt things associated with it. Today he is not a wealthy person, but he is contended with what he is getting and what he is letting.

He learnt one important thing in life, "Money is temporary like this life itself. It's we created this commodity for the sake of guarantee as things are temporary".

He respects money very much and respects people without looking into their assets as he learnt everything is temporary.

He is very happy that he learnt to keep tab of the expenses which gives him some sort of satisfaction rather than direction...

Wishing that everyone will keep tab of the expenses which gives a perspective on the way we move our life in terms of monetary terms. But the important lesson from keeping the account is to value the life in terms of how we live not how we spend it. Be it the life time or the value behind the life.

Hope you would agree that once this habit is cultivated, it will be a rewarding one.

Happy accounting!!! All the best!!!

என்னவென்று எழுத? என்னை ஈன்றோரே!!!

2016-12-26T12:05:00.001-08:00

என்னவென்று எழுத?
என்னை உலகத்தில் அறிமுகம் செய்த என் கடவுளுக்கு!!!

கருவறையில் கழித்திட்ட நாட்கள்,
அவள் என்னை தாலாட்டி சீராட்டி வளர்த்த நாட்களுக்கு ஒப்பானவையே!!!

தாயே,
கருவறையில் உன்னை உதைத்து இன்பமுற செய்து,
தவழ்ந்து தடுமாறி எழுந்து நடமாடி உன்னை உவகை பூக்க!!!

தாயும் தந்தையும் என் ஆசானே,
உலகை காட்டி என்னை ஊக்கமளித்து,
என்னவென்று சொல்ல என்னை ஈன்றோரே !!!

கவிதையில் வரைக்க கூட,
என் மொழிக்குள் அடங்காமல் வார்த்தை தடுமாற,
என்னவென்று சொல்ல என்னை ஈன்றோரே!!!

வாழ்க்கை என்னும் பாதையில் திசைதெரியாது தத்தளித்த பொழுது
என்னுடைய நட்பாய் என்னை வழிப்படுத்தியதை எழுதுவதா?
என்னவென்று சொல்ல என்னை ஈன்றோரே!!!

வேறு ஏதாவது எழுத சொன்னால் கூட கவிப்பேரகை படைத்திருப்பேனோ?
எம்மை ஈன்ற உம்மை எழுத எனக்கு என்ன அருகதை?
என்னவென்று சொல்ல என்னை ஈன்றோரே!!!

பரிதவித்து பேதளித்த நாட்களில், என்னுள் கரைந்து,
என்னை உயிர்வித்த உங்களை,
இந்த கவிதையில் வரைமுறைக்க வார்த்தைகள் எழவில்லை.
என்னவென்று சொல்ல என்னை ஈன்றோரே!!!

வானத்தில் வட்டமிட,
ஆசைகள் திமிற உங்களை உதாசீனப்படுத்திய நாட்கள்,
நான் தகப்பனாய் இன்று உங்களை...
என்னவென்று சொல்ல என்னை ஈன்றோரே!!!

என்றும், எப்பொழுதும் என்னுடைய நினைவாய் இருக்கும் உங்களை...
திரைக்கடலோடியும் திரவியம் தேடு என்று வந்ததை எழுதவா?
என்னவென்று சொல்ல என்னை ஈன்றோரே!!!

கல்வியும், செல்வமும் எனக்களித்து , வாழ்க்கையும் கொடுத்து
என்னை உலகில் வலமிட செய்த நீங்களோ வாழ்க்கையின் அந்தியில் எங்கோ?
என்னவென்று எழுத என்னை ஈன்றோரே?
வார்த்தை எழவில்லை, விடைபெறுகின்றேன்!!!

Please find a tune for my song...

2016-09-28T11:49:00.001-07:00

Hi everyone, it's been a long time that I written in the blog.

The reason to come to the blog is a singing competition...

When I was told to get some song for the singing competition, I thought I could write one. But I ended up something like the one below for which I am not able to get a good tune. (Don't chuckle, even lyrics doesn't matter for a hit song 😀).

Ok, this is the one. Anyone can attempt to get a tune for it, you may sing and compose for me if you wish... All free for you to attempt. All the best!!!

Here's it is finally.