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.
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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!!!
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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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My Favorite City

 Coimbatore is my all time favorite city and I loved to be Coimbatorian. With its major

production in cotton, Coimbatore is known as Manchester of south India and poor man’s Ooty.  

It is the second largest city in Tamil Nadu, and also one of the leading and growing cities in

educational, commercial and in textile industry. We have 3 medical colleges, 7 universities,

many Engineering colleges, Arts colleges in and around Coimbatore that supports all the

educational constraint to become the educational heart of south India. Indeed, here are plans for

the establishment of the world class university in the city. It is also one of the leading exporters

in automobile components that meet 30% need of the entire India. It is more diverse city than

any other city in Tamil Nadu in cultural. Though, it is more diverse city and cosmopolitan, here

people of Coimbatore are sociable and what not, Coimbatorians are known for their simplicity

and hospitality.

Coimbatore is 530 KMs from Chennai, and is connected by national highway from Salem

leading to Kanyakumari. We can easily connect with the neighboring cities due to the four lane

road facility.  In Coimbatore city, you can also find well laid roads and lanes. Coimbatore has an

International Airport and is connected to all major metropolitan cities in India, and Gulf. Indian

Airlines, Jet Airways, Air Sahara, silk air and Air Deccan operate frequent flights in

Coimbatore. All the major telecom service connects the entire district of Coimbatore. With the

increasing demand for the treatment, medical facility and equipment, Coimbatore set an example

for the entire state with the world class infrastructure hospitals with well equipped instruments

and high quality doctors.

We have mountain ranges on all sides, with Niligiri Mountain in the north and pollachi

valpari hills in the east. The eastern side of the city includes majority of the urban area and the

western side has the Nilgiris, Anaimalai and Munnar ranges and to the west of the city we have

Palghat Gap, a mountain pass which connects Kerala to Tamil Nadu. Moreover, the city has

Noyyal river, Pilloor river and Athikadavu river which almost serves the water requirement of

the entire city when the rainfall is not sufficient for the need of the city. Besides these rivers we

have sweetest ever Siruvani waterfalls in the Western Ghats and multiple streams that drain the

waste water in the city. Coimbatore is blessed with beautiful, pleasant, salubrious climate

throughout the year due to mountain ranges and the cool breeze blowing through the Palghat.

And for kids we have several amusement parks in and around the city namely, Black

Thunder water theme park, Kovai Kondattam amusement park and Maharaja Theme Park and

recently for the relaxation of the people at the weekend Coimbatore is equipped with two biggest

malls in the city

Last but not least Coimbatore has numerous Hindu temples with the famous Maruthamalai hills

with the height of 500 mts in the western ghats of the Coimbatore region.

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Foxtail Millet kesari/Thinai Kesari

Foxtail Millet kesari/Thinai Kesari

Millets contain higher amounts of fiber and minerals than wheat and rice. Moreover, it also contains good quality protein with a high content of essential amino acids. It has low glycemic index and hence it produce lower blood sugar levels than wheat or rice. The presence of magnesium in millet can help to reduce the effects of heart attacks. With all the benefits of millets in mind, I am going to share my sweet recipe using millets with the all new sugar free natura.

I used foxtail millet (also known as thinai, Kavalai, Korai and Kamban Korai in Tamil ) instead of ravai. Kesari is a south Indian dish, which is known as kesari bhath by Kannadigas,  is traditionally  prepared using rava.

Ingredients Required

• Thinai  rice (or)Foxtail millet- 1/2 cup
• Water - 2 cups 
• sugar free natura (low calorie sugar substitute)- 1/2  cup
• Ghee - 2 tablespoons
• Cashew nuts - 1 tablespoon
• Raisins - 1 tablespoon
• powdered Green cardamom 
• kesari powder (orange) & salt - a pinch

Method
1) Dry roast the thinai  rice with ghee in a kadai  and cool down to room temperature.
2) Once cooled, take the thinai rice in a mixture and grind it to a medium coarse powder ( like ravai).
3) Now heat a tablespoon of ghee and roast cashews, raisins till they become golden brown.
4) Take water in a kadai and allow it to boil. Add thinai to the boiling water.
5) Slowly stir thinai in simmer flame till it is well cooked without forming lumps.
6) Add a pinch of keasri powder and salt.
7) Finally add powdered cardamom and sugar free  natura to the mixture.  Stir for few more minutes.
8) Add rasin and cashew at the end and stir it so that it gets mixed well. Allow it to cool.
Delicious kesari is ready.

Here is the recipe

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Anniversary celebration.

Every year I used to celebrate my parents anniversary by greeting them through phone. Its was my parents 60^th anniversary and I wanted to celebrate that anniversary in a special way. While I was talking to my colleague she said that she celebrated her parent’s anniversary by visiting Tirupathi temple and shared her memorable experience. From then on, I planned to celebrate my parent’s 60^th wedding anniversary in a different way. But they have already visited Tirupathi.

My dad once told me that he want to visit an orphanage and want to donate something either in the form of money or food. Suddenly, I felt I should fulfill his wish and got an idea to take them to Mentally challenged school which is near to my house.

I donated dinner in the name of my parents for the children staying in Mentally challenged school on the day of their wedding. My plan is to take them to that place on that special day. On the day of their wedding anniversary as usual I greeted through their phone and informed them that we will be going to that school that evening. My dad was very much happy on hearing this and both my mom and dad was ready by 5.00 PM

Sharp by 5.00, after my office, I went to my parents’ home. I took them to the mentally challenged school. Once we stepped into the school, we observed there were nearly 70 children’s at different age group. When we saw them, we felt our heart was heavy. My dad felt emotional by seeing the children struggling to speak. Some kids could not even respond to our care.

At 7.30 at night the dinner arrived and everybody was assembled in the dining room. The prayer section started five minutes early to the dinner. After prayer we severed dinner to each and every child. When my parents served in every child’s plate, they said ‘thank you’ from the bottom of the heart.

Those words were much pleasing. Every child enjoyed the dinner to the at most happiness. At last after dinner every body gathered in a place and greeted by parents in a sweet lubbay voice that could not be expressed. They said, “Happy Anniversary to you. May god bless you. Long live both of you”

Later, we spoke to the management about the day to day activity of the school. After a while, the childrens went to their room to sleep.

We just donated in the form of food, but in return we got a memorable happiness and joy that money could not give us.

While returning to home, my dad and mom said that they never celebrated their anniversary. They said this was the real happiness. They said, they had a good time while talking to the kid and being together. After that my parents decided to celebrate the anniversary every year with those kids.

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LG nexus 5X-The Champ

LG nexus 5X-The Champ

LG and Google have come up with the new revised version of LG nexus 5.There is much lot difference between the refreshed version of the new LG Nexus 5X.The new LG nexus 5 X comes with reversible USB Type-C charger with which the speed of the charging is amazing. This is the one among the features, they have the difference between the old one and new one. What more one can expect from the refreshed one?. Below are the features of LG nexus 5X.

1.  Design : The advanced features of LG Nexus 5X make me feel smarter and simpler experience than ever before. The design of the Nexus 5X has been one of the most important aspects that has strike the market today. It comes with the capacitive multi-touch and hence the sensitivity will be great. The weight of the phone is just 130g which will exactly fit into your pocket with easy carrying.

2. Display: Yeah, performance becomes secondary when display really matters for smart phone. LG 

Nexus 5X has full HD with 1920 x 1080 resolution, and so no doubt that the LG Nexus comes with a greater resolution display. Above all who does not love to take photos, where photos are said to be the future memories. It has dual camera in which it has 12.5 mega pixel rear camera and 5 megapixel front cameras which make you feel that it worth for the money.

3. Storage Capacity:  The other notable feature of LG Nexus 5X is that it comes with, 32 GB internal space memory, I never worry about taking back-ups of my mobile. When talking about the speed, with its 2 GB RAM it is unimaginably fast compared to the other smart phone today.

Apart from the mentioned features it has some more additional such as video recording, voice recording and so on. Yeah you have all this features in the entire smart phone today, but the difference lies in the processing speed of it.

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My Dream

 For more than years I have the plan of doing self business ie, to start a small own cloth shop in my native place, but due to lack of trading knowledge, insufficient time and improper guidance it remained as dream. Now I am a full time mom to my one year son, whom I am engaged with and it is difficult for me to think of business. Recently I met my friend who is very much interested in fashioning and does lot of purchases in online. she told me about the new app- Baggout, and during our conversation I came to a conclusion that, I can use this app for my business. Here are the few salient features of Baggout which she shared to me, thought of sharing it with you.

• Bagggout is a platform which will definitely reduce lot of time for the buyers in searching for the product. Since I cannot spend much of my time in online this will help me for my business.
• This app helps to discover latest trends and the style of dressing according to our body type.

• It has multi stream products of leading online retailers such as Amazon, Snapdeal, Flipkart, limeroad, Jabong and many more where in one can shop their product in one app. The third screen shot shows Jabong offer. 

• With these features one may doubt about the speed of the app. It does not hang and the speed is really amazing when compared to other app.
• For those who cannot afford daily time in searching for their favorite dresses, it gives you the best solution in the way as daily recommendations.
• Finally it makes shopping much easier, simpler, interesting, fun and what else,  it occupies less space in the mobile ie, many app in one complete app.

With the amazing new experience of the app, I am fully impressed with its performance and now I am fully used up with the app. No doubt my dream of starting an own shop is not a big step to take in. Now I can do online shopping and can place orders with the best brands within a short span of time with one app in my hand.

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My Birthday Gift

My Birthday Gift

Today I wake up little earlier in the morning than the usual time and started preparing breakfast. I have to get my elder son ready to school and my husband was getting ready to college. My husband is a professor in a private institution. Throughout the day my younger son(turning one year old next month) keeps me busy. 

By the time I completed breakfast, I heard a whine of my younger son. I took him from bed and started packing lunch and snacks for my son. 

“Happy birthday mom” My elder son wished me with a card in his hand. With full of surprise I thanked and kissed him for such a sweet surprise.
“You remember my birthday?” I asked him.
“Yes mom. I selected this card for you, while returning from school yesterday”
“So nice of you” I said and started feeding the breakfast.
 “Bye, Bye mom” he rushed to catch his van, when we heard his school van horn sound.

  Now its my husband turn to wish me. He came to dinning and I was eagerly waiting for him to greet, but he did not. As usual he must have completely forgot my birthday.

Every year, be it a anniversary or a birthday we visit a temple that is near by my house. With thoughts fluttering in my mind, I planned to go for temple in the evening.

After having his breakfast, I asked him to be little earlier in the evening thinking that he will ask for the reason. But he said he would try to come earlier and left saying bye to me. I was totally upset and disappointed.  After a while I heard my mobile ringing and I thought it might be my husband. My husband is known to surprise in different ways.

I took my mobile, but again disappointment clouded my emotions. It was my mom at the other end to greet me. I talked to my mom and dad for a while and resumed to expect a call from my husband. Till evening I was eagerly waiting for my husband’s call, but it turned out to be a disappointment day for me.

In the evening he came earlier as I requested in the morning. I asked him to get ready for temple but he said he is waiting for a person. After an hour, a salesman entered my house with a machine. It was a treadmill and he started giving instruction of Do’s and Dont's with the machine to us. My husband made him the payment and the salesman left the house.

After a while my husband said, "Happy birthday my dear, this is my birthday gift to you. I want to surprise you, so I didn’t wish in the morning.”
I said, "Thank you so much. I thought you have forgotten my birthday. But why tread mill?”

“How can I forget your birthday? Recent times you could not find time for your health. I felt you are ignoring your health while you take care of our son. I want you to be fit and healthy and this will help you a lot. You can do exercise, when you find time. Above all, you don't have to get embarrassed for running outside our apartment. You can stay fit, by staying at home. This will burn out all the extra fat and will control your blood rate and heart-rete. Since heart is the main part of the body, main fitness lies in the protection of heart. From tomorrow, you have to use this treadmill for walking. I will help you in all the ways”.

Really this gift is a different and valuable one for me.

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Education Today

Education Today

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Today admission to the engineering course is easy, due to the elimination of entrance exam and more private institutions in our state and parents can easily graduate their children as a professional degree holder. Moreover today we can see at least two engineering graduates in a family. But 15 yrs back, when I am doing my graduate it was not so easy to enter into engineering college. We have to write entrance exam, and based upon the marks scored in the exam the admission to the engineering college would be confirmed. On the other hand if the mark scored is low we have to join only through payment quota.
Due to financial criteria, it was difficult in those days for the middle class family to graduate their children through payment quota

Yeah, during my higher secondary examination result the mark was not bad and I scored 81% in the public examination. But the biggest hurdle is the entrance exam where everybody has to face it. I went to special coaching class for the entrance exam for one month and after one month preparation I wrote the exam. I too had the dream of joining in professional course, but on the day of entrance exam result, the mark scored was not sufficient for me to get admission in the engineering college.

My dad mad mom found it difficult to get admission in the payment quota, so they decided to seek admission in science courses. At first I am not convinced with their decision, but my mom said me that there is nothing superior in courses. It is all about learning; and she advised me to have graduation in science course and to do the best in it. Finally I got admission for the Physics course in the arts and Science College. My life changed there and completed my under and post graduate in physics stream. Today I am assistant professor in engineering college and completed my doctorate in physics. Now teaching engineering students every year gives me satisfaction and this profession is a passion for me.

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Now Everyone Can Fly

Now Everyone Can Fly

Some of the preferred destinations for the first time travelers to Asian countries will be Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Dubai, because it is easy to access. One of my most favorite and my long time dream is to visit Malaysia. In the last few years Malaysia has become more popular for tourists. It is a perfect country which attracts lots of tourists and a great destination for couples and families with children. I have heard that accommodation in Malaysia is very affordable when compared to neighboring countries. My husband’s friend often invites us to Malaysia who is there with his family. He used to share his enjoyable moments and photos with us often.

Last year during the winter holidays, we were planning to go Malaysia. But, since we were a family of four people, we dropped that plan considering the flight expenses and hotel accommodation charges. For a upper-middle class family like us, International trip requires a proper planning and big budget. My son who is very much interested in swimming and diving insist us to take him to an International tour. He always wanted to try scuba driving. I did discuss his interest with my husband about an International tour many times, but due to time and money constraints it was postponed all these years.

This year we decided to visit Malaysia during my son’s exam holidays. When I was talking about International tour idea to my sister, she suggested me to visit 27coupons.com and check for the offers that would be available for hotel and flight tickets. She insisted that there were lots of discounts and
coupons for international flights and hotels.

At first I don’t have much idea about 27coupons.com, but when I visited 27coupons.com, I came to know that it’s a platform that provides the information about the discount coupons of other portals. When searched for Yatra and Make my trip, there were lots of surprises in the form of discounts and coupons for both domestic and international flight charges.

Through 27coupons, I found a discount coupon that offers 10000 cashback on International flights bookings. I went to makemytrip.com and booked the flight for 4 to Malaysia. The moment I booked the flight I got cashback of Rs10,000 as offer. I was surprised to receive the cashback and I immediately informed this to my husband.

We never expect that we will receive the cash back and we were happy that this amount will be used for other expenses during our trip to Malaysia. Now we are counting our days for our dreams to come true and my son is very much eager to visit there. We have informed to my husband’s friend that this time we are visiting to Malaysia. He has made arrangement for us to make our trip the most unforgettable and memorable one. I really thank the 27 coupons.com for letting us know the discount coupons that is available in different portals.
Its really encouraging for all family members like us in the form of giving discounts and coupons. With these offers, people will be happy since everyone can now fly to their dream countries within their budget itself. As summer holiday draws near for all kids the discount will really add flavor to those who are planning for this holiday.

   Above all my dad turns 60 this year, this time I want to surprise him with a memorable gift. As a birthday gift I have booked domestic flight for my mom and dad to Agra. My dad has often said to me that his long time dream is to visit Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders in the world. This birthday will definitely be the unforgettable one to him. Believe it or not I came to know about a offer from 27coupons.com and booked the flight through Makemytrip and I received cashback of Rs 2000 for domestic flights. 

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