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!!!
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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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