My Son’s Favorite Drink

My Son’s Favorite Drink

First day to school is important in everyone’s life because it gives excitement and nervousness not only to the kid, but also to the parents. We often don’t remember our first day to school but when we ask our parents they still will have the memory in their heart. My son turns 4 this June and till now he was only in daily care only for about 3 to 4 hours. My son is very naughty. No surprise in this fact, today’s generations are so faster than us. He needs somebody to supervise him all over the day and at times I feel that my energy is not sufficient for me to take care of him. As every mother’s wish is to be with their kid all through the day and same is my feeling too. I decided to be with him till he goes to school and so I took long leave from my teaching profession.
We planned him to shift for kinder garden and searched a school for him nearby my house, so as to reduce the travelling time and to avoid tiredness. At last we got admission in school which is very near to our residence. But from this year he has to be in school from morning 9 A.M till evening 3.30 P.M. This puts me in great anxiety because form the day he was born he was under my care and control. I have never leaved him the whole day under somebody’s control. The very first day, I and my husband were in busy in getting him ready to school. I and my husband were with full of eagerness than my son. One thing which makes us worry is that he must love the school and he should not shed tears while in the morning to school. Everything is fine and we left him under his teacher and returned back home.
I could not wait till 3 P.M and we were there in school at 2 PM to pick him. When he returned from his class he was very happy and from his face I could feel that he loved the school very much. But one thing I noticed with him is that he was very tired and almost in exhausted state. Since that was the first day I consoled myself that I would be alright in the following day. But everyday he returns from school he feels sleepy and I felt that he is not active. We observed him for almost 20 days and then we decided to take him to pediatrician. He examined him thoroughly and finally he reported that suffers from insufficient nutrition and energy. He also added that my son has not attained correct weight which is needed for his age and height. This bothered me lot because all these days I was in assumption that he has attained correct growth and development which is needed for his age.

Later, our family doctor advised to give him some Health and Nutrition drink and suggested us Horlicks Growth plus for my child. Its about 15 days that we are giving him Horlicks Growth plus chocolate flavor both in the morning and evening as substituent to milk. I could feel the difference in him. He plays in the evening with his friends and is more active till night after school. Above all, he does his homework all by himself.

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Datsun redi-GO - Gift from my hubby

My husband was applying for a house loan and was requesting my driving license for address proof.

My four-wheeler driving license is useful only for address proofs and nothing more than that. I eventually poured out my frustration.

 He looked at me, gave his car key and replied, “I am not stopping you from driving my car. Anytime, you can take and plan for a long drive.”

“Are you kidding? Your car is gigantic and scary. I get nervous to drive it”

“It’s must be approximately 4585 mm in length only. It’s no big deal. You can drive”

“You always reply the same. I am asking you a car since long. Almost 5 years, you never even thought about it” I replied in anger and went to prepare breakfast for my kids.

This is the usual conversation with my husband and It always ends in not-so-good-ending. But that day was so special. My husband sent the below text along with a link in what’s app.

“Fun. Freedom. Confidence. The ultimate Urban Cross - Datsun redi-GO - the capability of a crossover with the convenience of a hatchback.” 

I clicked on the link and it navigated to new vehicle  Redi-Go. Though I know very well that my hubby was researching this car for me, I asked for whom the car was. His reply was ultimate.

“Well, it’s for my new girlfriend. Since girlfriend is new, a new car model for her”

Though I know he was just teasing me, when he replies like that I get so possessive. I stopped texting him back.

That Evening he came home with few set of print outs. We browsed the picture of the car in google and he explained about the features of the car. When it comes to car or product, I am not good in judging or researching. But as he explained the performance and as I saw the interior and exterior design, I felt I should go for this car. It actually comes with 2 variant. DATSUN Go and DATSUN Go+. We downloaded the brochure from the website and he explained me its feature.

Fun. Freedom. Confidence.
Pic source - Datsun Website

With this car you can have full freedom, you can go wherever you want with confidence. You have a shift indicator, hence when you are on wrong shift, it gives you a warning or alert. I know you always forget to put petrol on right time, this car comes with fuel indicator. This will let you know the distance to empty the fuel. You always complain that, AC comes only to front seats. This car comes with integrated center AC and ensures that AC is distributed evenly around all the passengers in the rear seats as well. I vote for this car because it comes with an air bag.

 Pic Source - DATSUN 

For him my safety is first. I thought and smiled.

“What about the mileage and price” This is the only question that I know to ask, when it comes to a car or 2 wheeler.

“It gives around 25 km per litre and price is ₹3,25,726.” He continued, “You can book this car online through snap deal and if we book now we get a free vacation of 3 day and 2 night from package Club Mahindra.

“Oh Really, then I can plan a trip Munnar trip with our new car”

“Yes you can” He replied and we booked a request for a test drive.

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Summer Trip to Chill Chill Coorg

                 
It's a known fact that schools will have summer vacation in the month of April and May. Chennai receives the worst and maximum temperature during these 2 months and people usually plan a trip to some hill station to enjoy the chill weather and to escape from the unbearable hot weather. I am staying in Chennai with my two kids: the younger one is 18 months old and the elder son is 9-year-old. In order to avoid my elder son from the electronic gadget, I made him busy with abacus and chess classes. But my son was constantly pestering me to take him outside. I felt that I too need some relaxation, since I was always running behind my 1 ½ year old son.  Finally we decided to plan a trip to Coorg during the last week of May.

The only reason for preferring hill place was to enjoy the chill climate. I have heard many times about Coorg and its weather from my friends and relatives. I thought it was a nice place to spend the vacation with my family. My husband asked me to prepare a perfect plan and make the complete arrangements for the trip.

Then on I started to analyze the places in Coorg and the best place to stay. I realized that distance from Chennai to Coorg is almost 600 km and it will take around 10 hours of journey by car. It would be really a long and difficult journey and the long journey might affect my younger son. He has never traveled such a long distance. Even for my husband driving 10 hours might be difficult. Then I stumbled across the Domestic Airlines that runs between Chennai and Coorg. Though it was a perfect idea to travel by flight and reduce the travelling time, I ignored the idea of travelling in flight. It was resulting in added expenses and it was not fitting our budget. Then I came across the attractive offers that Yatra provided. I booked round trip in Spicejet Airlines for 4 people through yatra and got 2500 rupees as cash back. With the cash back, I booked a decent accommodation.

The plan was to travel in flight from Chennai to Mysore and after reaching Mysore we will hire a taxi to Coorg since it was just 120 km from Mysore. Here is my blue print for my travel

Day 1:

First day we planned to visit some falls. The primary reason my elder son loves to enjoy in water. He loves waterfall and will enjoy it to the core. While browsing the best place to visit in Coorg, I came across 2 waterfalls - Irrupu and Abbey falls. But our plan was to visit only one falls. Both of the reviews seemed to be equally good. Iruppu Falls was almost 60 km from Madikeri  hence we decided to visit Abbey Falls, since it was just 6 kms from the hotel we stayed.

Day 2:
The second day was planned for exploration. We planned to visit elephant camp and National park. Taking the child to National park is always a good idea. They enjoy watching all the animals. So, I did not forget to include National park visit and wild life safari.

Day 3:
Third day is for myself. For me, a trip is not complete without visiting a holy place. Hence, I planned for temples and near by places in Madikeri.

When I show this blue print to my husband he was praising a lot. Almost everything is ready and we are now eagerly waiting for the day to come.

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My Toddler's Favourite Music

“Lullaby” is everyone’s favorite and much loved songs which we use hear in our childhood from our mother or grandmother. Our mother when she was a child would have experienced the sweetness of the lullaby from her mother and this was continued from generation to generation. Now a day the greatest problem is that most new mother’s does not know to sing lullaby and it becomes a challenge for them to keep their kid to sleep or to feel comfortable whenever necessary. I remember my mother saying that my grandmother used to sing lullaby every night, when I was a child. Listening to her voice and sweet rhythm, I used to sleep peacefully. Luckily are the kids who hear those songs.
Unfortunately, I missed to learn that from my grandmother. Even after searching in YouTube, I was not feeling so content with the results I got. While looking for an alternative, I got one super idea that I would like to share.
Here is the new idea for all the lovely mothers which they use to play the song from the mobile as lullaby. The kid used to listen to the song and will turn to sleep very often and it become habit in almost all the kid’s house.
This is about my experience with my kid and how my son becomes favorite to one particular song. I use to sing with my own tune with my own voice to make my son sleep all the time. One day when he was just 6 months while watching television he started crying for no reason. I made him cool by singing song but suddenly “dandanakka song” from the film Romeo Juliet is played in music channel in television. All of a sudden he stopped crying and began to listen the song. From then on his favorite song is “dandanakka” and whatever mood he is, his much loved song is dandanakka.
One day we went to attend a family function, with new faces and new surroundings due to huge crowd he started crying.  We almost made the entire attempt to make him comfortable but he remains restless. Immediately I took out from the place and I played him the song.  All of a sudden he stopped crying and he enjoyed the song. From then on it become our trick to play the song whenever he is restless.    
Though today’s generation miss those lullaby, to some extend it can be replaced with the music or songs that a movie has. Sometimes, my toddler who is just one year old, who speaks with lubbaly voice, request us with sound to play the song in the mobile.
But sometimes, it reflects in other way too. Last week, we all were tired and punched the bed around 10 PM in night. My toddler was energetic and was not ready to sleep. We thought of attempting our usual trick to make him sleep by playing the song. But on the reverse side effect, instead of sleeping, he started dancing.
This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

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Beep Song

Beep Song

Recently one song that put entire Tamilnadu into two different controversies and sensation is so-called Beep Song. This song is lyrics was written by Simbu and composed by Anirudh. These songs contain words that need to be censored and this also degrades women in the society. Initially this song was uploaded in YouTube and slowly started receiving negative comments. It started spreading like a virus among the people and everybody started opposing by criticizing Simbu for this song. When the media people approached Simbu and asked for his comments on this song, he said that the song was stolen from his mobile and unofficially uploaded in YouTube by some other people without his knowledge. But people were not ready to believe his statements and day by day the aggressiveness towards him started increasing. Some people even filled a case against him in the court. Knowing this he began to avoid media. But again rumors started spreading saying that he absconded to some foreign country. Immediately, his mother and father approached media and gave an explanation stating that Simbu did not abscond anywhere and he is in Tamil Nadu only.
Her mother went a step further and stated the media that this incident has put them under lot of pressure. They were restless from the day of this incident. She in fact pleaded sorry.
Coming back to the issue, there were few people who supported him and there were few set of people who aggressively condemned Simbhu. His haters said this is a general practice that Simbhu is doing every now and then and he is a kind of Psycho. They also added that, he does this to get fame and publicity. Few said, he has to be hanged to death. On listening to all these statements, his mother was freaked out and cried out to media. She questioned media, “What wrong did my son do to hang and kill him? This song was not published by my son. He was playful and was enjoying with his friends. If the song has hurt any woman, I am sorry for that. Please leave us alone”
But even after her sincere apology, his haters were passing heavy and bad remarks on him and his family.
 Whereas his supporters said, this song was not used in any movie or album. This song was stolen from his mobile and he cannot be completely blamed for his act. When compared to few movies and few people who project women in a wrong way, this song or incident is nothing.
Even high profiled stars use the words in the movie and this would be replaced by beep music. Recently, there were another movie, which completely criticized women and no one has opposed that movie. It was running successfully in Theaters. But just for one word, why people are wasting the time and filling the case? Is this important to the society. For a day, the beep song was a trending hash tag in Face book? Does this song really need this big attention? People should think about it!!!
This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

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Colgate 360 gold toothbrush

How to turn good mornings in to gold mornings

I am working as an assistant professor in private institutions and my passion is teaching. The moment I enter into the institution the students used to greet me by saying” Good Morning  Mam” every day in the morning. I just nod my head and will continue my work. This behavior created a different opinion about me among the students. The students used to think that I am a not a jovial person since I will not smile at anybody.  But the reason behind this is that I always have the feeling that I don’t follow the correct way of brushing the teeth which result is the tooth decay, gum formation and so on.
Recently I heard from my friend about the #Colgate360GoldMornings and suggested me to use Colgate 360 gold toothbrush. Since I am not much aware of the toothbrush I asked her for the more detail. She said it comes with gold color with ultra slim tip bristles. This latest Colgate 360 gold toothbrush will help the clean in between the teeth than the normal bristles. Moreover it not only protects the teeth but also the mouth from the germs, bacteria and gum formation.

With all this in mind I plan to use the latest arrival of Colgate 360 Charcoal Gold toothbrush and I asked my husband the buy it for me. To my surprise the tooth brush has not only bristles but also tongue cleaner with it. Also this can be used up and down, front and back, side to side in between the teeth.

Now every day I used to brush with the innovative Colgate 360 gold tooth brush, and the instant I started using the toothbrush I could feel the difference with me. It created confidence within me. Now I used to smile at everybody around me with enthusiasm and  whenever student greet me in the morning I rely them with “Good Morning” with a smile in my face. Now to all my students I am also the most cheerful and jovial person in the college. Believe it or not, this latest arrival of Colgate 360 gold tooth brush completely changed the opinion about me among the students. I can now say everyday and every morning is a gold day and gold morning for me.

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