The most beautiful gift in the world

My dad’s journey and his role toward his vision of making me the head of department of a university was agitated with hard work, sweat, strong-willed determination and persistence. He trained me to remember and follow only one slogan as soon as I wake up. "Be Determine to be productive today".  No doubt, his experience had shaped me better.

I look back on those early years and remember his sacrifice that made me to excel in my career today. At the start of my career I was supposed to give a presentation to a group of 1000 people on the topic “thin-film”. It was an excellent opportunity that anyone would receive at the initial stage of the career. I was very nervous to face a crowd of thousands, hence my dad accompanied me. On seeing my nervousness, my dad understood what’s running in my mind.
He said, “You may not have all the answers or cover all of the planned material. You may not receive positive and complete attention from all the audience. But if you are passionate about what you are presenting and saying, the audience will remember that passion for a long time before they remember the words you are conveying.”

Those words went deep into my mind and I portrayed my presentation with sheer passion. He stayed with me throughout my presentation and cheered like a true devotee. If I reminisce those days as a young teenager, lot of emotions bubbles up to the surface of my throat and leaves me speechless.

If I am being successful today, I will admit that it’s because of my dad’s love for me that got me here.

This achievement, however pleasing, does not come without the struggle of my dad. I am so glad that my dad has prepared me for it. I am so grateful to my dad. I am married now and staying with my husband and kids. I visit my father’s home once in every month. The space he occupied in my heart, push me further to new boundaries and new possibilities. I hear his voice inside my heart that advises me during the tough times.
What could I favor him in return? I know, none of our dads will love expensive gifts or money. Their happiness is their kids. On this father’s day, I have one expensive gift that would make our dad to cloud with happiness.

Hug Your Dad and say how much he means to you. I am sure, that’s the most beautiful and expensive gift in the world.

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Dance the best medicine

My grandmother was not completely cured, when the hospital doctors informed that she can be discharged today. She was still very sick and weak. The hospital staff arranged the ambulance to transport my mother back to home. I was extremely disappointed and was developing negative feelings on the medical science, since medicine and doctors could not cure my grandmother.  If it cannot cure a person, then what is the use of hospitals and medicines?
On the other hand, I did forget that my grandmother is becoming old. Birth and death are natural and one has to admit that. The doctor said that my grandmother can survive only for a month. I took her to the balcony and offered the coffee. She is a die-hard fan of coffee. She enjoyed every sip of it and gave the cup back to me with a smile on her wrinkled face.
A thought crossed my mind. Instead of cribbing about her health, I decided to fulfill all her wish in this one month. I do not have any magical power to change her fate, but I had the power to keep her happy till.
“Mom (I address her by that way), do you have any unfulfilled wish?" I asked my grandmother with an unease tone.
As serious as she could be, she said, "Are you planning to fulfil my death bed wish"
Tears rolled down to my cheeks.  She smiled and looked at me. I did not have courage to look at her back, hence I left the place.

In the Evening, while watching TV, there came Allu Arjun song. My grandmother, who was sleeping on the bed, took effort to come to living room and watched the song. She also added that she likes Allu Arjun a lot and his dance is effortless and full of energy. I sensed a content in her face after watching his songs.

The next day morning, I saw in newspaper that Allu Arjun and Anushka Manchanda are coming to a mall for ABCD2 promotion. I know my grandmother likes Allu Arjun dance, hence I took her to the promotions.
As soon as I shared my plan of taking her to the promotion of ABDC2, where Allu Arjun is coming for the promo, I could sense an excitement in her eyes. She eagerly got ready for the promo. We reached the mall early and to our surprise both Allu Arjun and Anushka Manchanda were on time. The entire crowd cheered them and welcomed with roar. On observing the crowd, my mother also got excited and roared along with the crowd. The day was spent with full fun masti. Dance, singing made the environment brighter and brighter. My grandmother thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it. Even after reaching home, my grandmother was excited to the core.

The next day, I had a checkup for my grandmother and took her to the hospital. The doctor was so surprised that her BP level and health was normal. When I shared the incident that we went for promo and she did slight dance over there and was cheerful throughout the function, the doctor advised to continue to do that in possible ways to keep her lively and healthy.

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Dance and Song brings positive Change

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Every Single mother on the earth could relate to the below incident I am writing about.
“Sanju, it’s already 7. Wake up. You will miss the school van,”
“Mom.. 5 minutes..”
“Sanju its 7.10. If you don’t wake up in now, I will seriously complain to your class teacher”
No reply from my son and he refuses to wake up. I get angry, then the day starts with scolding’s and tension. This is the usual routine of my daily morning (or any working women) during a working day.
Being an elders, we love to snooze our clock and sleep for some more time. They are kids don’t they love to snooze and sleep for some more time.
Today it started in the same way. My son declined to get ready to the school. After battle and struggle he got up, but he was not ready to bath by himself. I was also in tension to get ready to office. His school van had already arrived and it was waiting in front of my house. All of a sudden while packing his dairy I found that there was a home work that was not completed. I got angry for not informing that he had a home work to do.
My son was still stubborn to get ready.  I informed the driver to leave and planned to drop him in the school. I was already upset as I need to put permission for my work.
I scolded my son for not waking up and getting ready. Without listening to my words, he started playing with the new electronic car that his dad newly gifted him. I could not control my anger and gave him a pound. He started crying and I made him to get ready and dropped in school.
Till that time, my anger was at the peak. As soon as I dropped my son, I felt bad for the morning mess and beating my son. Even in my office, I could not concentrate on my work completely. Evening I thought of asking sorry and explaining him not to repeat those things in a lovely tone.
But a big surprise was waiting for me. As soon as my son came back from my school, he removed his shoes and kept in the shoe rack properly. He kept his bag in the study table and took the tiffin box and dropped in the sink. He kept dancing, took towel by himself and went for bath. After bathing, he started doing homework. He also promised, he will get up early and get ready by himself tomorrow.
I could not believe and asked for the reason for his positive change. He said, Allu Arjun and Anushka Manchanda has come to his school and gave a performance. I could feel from my son voice that they had a good time with singing and dancing. My son was so energetic and he said, they will come to the school for the next one week, and that’s the reason he was interested to go to the school tomorrow. That’s is when I realized a dance and songs could do wonders.

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25 simple home tips to look always Younger.

25 simple home tips to look always Younger.

Even to act in Serials they look for heroines with glow and beautiful skin. People with dark skin, but highly talent are not able to shine in the media. Starting from the age of 10 to 70, every woman wants them to look younger and beautiful. If we search a beauty parlor, we need to spend thousands and thousands which is not possible for everyone. So, I am sharing 25 home made tips from my experience.

 

1. Green Tea - Drinking green tea, results in younger skin.
2. Turmeric and Lemon – A mixture of turmeric and lemon purifies the skin. (if you feel your skin is yellow due to turmeric powder, you could try using "VICCO Turmeric Cream".
3. Honey and Lemon – Applying this juice on the face increase the glow of the skin.
4. For Oily Skin – Turmeric powder, Orange and Sandal wood. Preserve the orange peel and dry it under the sun. Make the orange peel to a powder and mix it with sandal wood and turmeric powder to removes the excess oil in the skin.
5. To remove Stretch Mark – A mixture of Turmeric Powder, Yogurt, Besan Powder and Lemon Juice
6. To get rid of Dark Circles – Turmeric Powder and Sugarcane Juice remove the dark circles under the eyes.
7. To protect the skin from Ultra violet rays - Use olive oil every day before taking bath.  Apply olive oil in circular movements and take a sun bath. The sun bath has to be taken before 7.00 AM. Continuous usage of olive oil results in tan removal as well.
8. For Dry Skin – Mix one Spoon of honey and with cold milk and apply on the face.  Avoid applying to the lips, since the taste will lure to drink this mix rather than applying to the face.
9. Cucumber and Yogurt – Smash Cucumber into a thick paste and mix with yogurt. Apply this paste in the face and wipe with a tissue paper. This paste will be very effective for all types of skins.
10. To get Refreshing Skin – Apply cucumber juice, mint leave and milk
11. Tomato and Cucumber – This paste removes the dirt on the neck that is caused by wearing chains. 
12. Cucumber and Curd – A paste of Cucumber and Curd treats the tanned skin.
13. To address Peeling of Skin – Aloevera gel is good for skin. This gel can be mixed with Vitamin E Oil (Vitamin E oil will be available in shops) and when applied, peeling and tanning of skins can be reduced.
14. To get Clear Skin – Mix Alovera and Lemon to get clear skin
15. Potato and Lemon – Take the juice of Potato and mix with lemon juice. This combination is good for the healing of tan caused due to the pollution and UV rays
16. Rice water – Wash your face once with the rice water. It will remove the pores on the skin.
17. Oat Meal – This tips is little tedious as that of cooking. But this face pack is very   Oat meal 3 tea spoons, one white egg, honey and curd.
18. Almond Powder and Yogurt – It removes the dirt that is caused to the excess
19. Almond Powder, Cream milk, Lemon Juice and Oat Meals – Another face pack for radiant skin.
20. Peas, Yogurt, Rose water, Lemon, Papaya – Mix into a paste and use it as a face pack.
21. To get Fairer Skin – Cucumber, Sandal Wood paste, Lemon Juice, Tomato paste will do wonder.
22. To get Fair skin (Dry Skin) – Mix powdered milk, honey and lemon along with essential oil and apply to get a fairer skin.
23. Tomato Juice – Apply the tomato juice on the face to get shining skin
24. To get rid of ACNE – Remove the skin of the tomato and smash it to get a thick paste. Apply it on the acne and leave it for half an hour.
25. During winter, the skin gets dry soon. Apply raw honey on the face and wash it. It’s the best moisturizing cream.

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