Tsunami sings !!

This post is about a mischievous little guy ... Johnny . For those who have not met  this little tsunami...He is ... was and will be found everywhere around  ..climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. He is an Angel , always with dirt on his face ...And however hard I try to wash and relieve him of all obvious confections , he tends to be sticky, always !! 

He is a beauty , always with a cut on his finger. He is the core of wisdom .. poor me !! ...always fighting to get the bubble gum stuck on his hair. He can transform into anything... from plumber to mason ...found always with a hammer or a spanner in his pocket .He is always around ...helping me ..pulling out my anthuriums .. overwhelmed by this sudden non-stop desire to go digging for hidden treasure .Such a lovely doll who would easily turn two people into complete idiots. He is a magical creature ...The lazy blogger "Little Rumble " who takes pleasure in bragging about his blog which he never ever updated since the day he started  blogging !! 

And like Alan Beck says....I can easily lock him out of my kitchen, but never out of my heart. ...He is a fun-loving, naughty, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But even when I come back home with a heavy heart, he can mend it magically with his smile and his big bear hug ! That's my Johnny..The adorable singer who could sing even before he could talk !!

And guys..Here is a song he sang from Rihanna..which I uploaded on youtube a year back ..Hope you guys enjoy it !!

First impression is in the eyes of the beholder !!

Something that has always fascinated me is the quote "  "First impression is the best" coz I keep wondering as to which part of that "debut performance" really counts !! If it is just "looks" that are judged first, I am unsure as to how the blind judge us ? Could be with our sounds and intonations ? If so , what impression would you make to the deaf ? Just curious !!

 If ..according to physics "light travels faster than sound" , then our first impressions should be linked to sight and not speech ? Well.. that's what I ve felt .And maybe that is why we feel some people are bright until we hear them speak !! 

 I also believe that, people who are unable to do speak their mind ,could possibly have nothing in their mind to begin with. Well, I've felt the same with people who do not listen. I am sure no one will be able to speak when he doesn’t listen what he hears.
Judging people from first impressions is quite simple. Like for instance, imagine you have just met a person and someone asks you , what you think of that person .Well..he can force a story out of you, and I am sure you’d succeed in telling a beautiful one, despite it being entirely out of guesswork. So from all this, let me conclude ....

 Though, in one way, it is not wrong to pass judgment from first impressions.... it still is wrong in another way...cos it doesn't really work that way. In fact, you really cant do it !! Cos what we see, is only our imagination. And so let me conclude that "First impression- is in the eyes of the beholder". Hope you guys agree!!

Technology is not the solution to problems caused by technology !!

Dear Friends !!!   In an era when information and technology is at the max, its high time we think about the  problems which we are going to face in the coming era. Most of the problems are caused by "technology" ..... and in order to solve this , we turn to technology again !! Though what I talk may seem funny, let me make this point clear...  

"Technology is not the solution to problems caused by technology " 

And the funniest thing here is , .....the smaller a thing is, the more powerful it turns out to be... like for instance,  the smaller a pest , the faster it overcomes all techological attempts to eradicate it  ?? Now what you are going to see is something small but extremely powerful to become the root cause for " 666 " or is this what is the "666" mentioned in the Bible ?? 

I thought about this a lot many times before posting ....and finally thought it was worth it. In fact I received this forward from one of my friends in the US. Hope this would help everyone !!

Here goes..... 

This is the latest news in the world !!  !  

   

It is the size of a grain of rice …

A new development which eliminates the necessity of using currency or credit cards .It is already being used by the wealthy as a tool to help prevent kidnapping.You will use it for it’s advantages and to help prevent fraud and identity theft... Flee from it !!! Find out why !!  

 

Transponder is a system of storage for reading information in microchips. Reading occurs in waves like a remote control. The “bio-chip” measures 7mm of length and .075mm wide, as large as a grain of rice. It contains a transponder and a rechargeable Lithium battery. The battery is recharged by a thermocouple circuit that produces an electrical current with the fluctuation of body temperature. 

 

MOTOROLA is the company producing the microchip for MONDEX SMARTCARD. They developed several implants for humans using the “Bio-chip.” More than 250 corporations and 20 countries are involved in the distribution of MONDEX to the world and many nations are “privileged” to use this system, among them: Great Britian, Canada, U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Philipines, Singapore, Thailand, India, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras,El Salvador & Brazil.There are other SMARTCARD systems being used through MONDEX, especially since MasterCard bought 51% share of the company.

But ask yourself...what does this have to do with me...?

They spent more than $1.5 Million Dollars in research just to discover the best place to insert the “bio-chip” into the human body. They only found two satisfactory and efficient places - THE HEAD, underneath the scalp and the backside of the hand, specifically…

THE RIGHT HAND!

 

(v.16) He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, (v.17) and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.    Revelation 13:16, 17

Not much of a coincidence ?

REMEMBER THIS COMPANY NAME AND LOGO!  

One billion “bio-chips” are being produced by MONDEX a year. It’s been in production for at least a year. They discovered that if the chip would be in a card, they will encounter serious problems. The chip could be cut and information would be changed or falsified. The value could be manipulated, stolen or lost. After you receive the card, it will expire within one to two years. In the end, real money will be insecure in the general market. There is only one solution for this problem, embraced by MOTOROLA… implanting the “bio-chip” in the right hand or the head, where it cannot be removed. If it is removed by surgery, the small capsule will burst and the individual would be contaminated by the Lithium and the chemical in the microbacteria, and the Global Positioning System (GPS) will detect if it was removed, and will alert the authorities. Notice MONDEX means “Money on your hand.”

 MON = MONetary

DEX = DEXter = Right-hand side

will you take this serious

Imagine your parents, friends and siblings, everyone you know…

having to be “marked.” Now that you’ve been informed, but still doubt this information, do the following. Go to www.google.com. Search for the word “VERICHIP” and read some of the links. Do the same with the words “MONDEX SMARTCARD.” We can no longer claim ignorance. We are now informed, and accountable.

Real Men wear Pink in October !!

Excuse me Guys!! It is November now...and I know I should have posted this long time back. Any way, you know there is no stopping me when I have something in my mind .. Well, Thats me!! Take me for being pretty 'difficult' ...but still,  understand that nobody is 'difficult' but rather 'different' ???  Ha Ha...

Well, now ..Its going to be a little serious ... For those of you who are not aware of the cancer campaigns and stuff associated with it.....Hope you ve heard about cancer ribbons and that each month is dedicated to a particular type of cancer... like for instance, a gold ribbon stands for childhood cancer and the month of September would be dedicated to childhood cancer awareness campaigns every year....

The same goes for every month...

  

visit www.cancerindia.in for more details on cancer ribbons

The color Pink is supposed to be girlish and feminine.....And I suppose men dont wear pink ???  Think about a man wearing a PINK JEANS OR A DARK PINK SHIRT...you'd call him a freak or a junkie even.....

But PINK…. in the World of Cancer , has great importance cos it stands for Breast Cancer and the month of October is dedicated to this issue...

Cancer campaigners and volunteers all over the world wear pink when they turn up for campaigns or volunteer activities regardless of whether they are men or women......





Now, this is not the main issue here….Last month I got a mail from one of my friends in New York who is an active voluntary social worker but one who works in the administrative section in one of the biggest companies there.

He had gone through very difficult times when his mother whom he loved very much had suffered from breast cancer which was diagnosed in the worst stage and the lady had sadly refused to go in for treatment and finally had the most painful death possible….

 So this guy made it a point to wear a pink ribbon on his suit everyday during October...and also pink shirts and pink handkerchiefs whenever he could ....Not to mention the sly looks and snide remarks of his colleagues who would tease him for his improper dressing !! ....

But everytime someone teased him, he would make it a point to explain to them why he wore it. He says he took real pains to explain ...and most of the time it would be quite embarrassing….but he still did it , cos he felt that his actions would speak more than just words ....

And... as he was using himself as a tool for this awareness program, he felt so happy doing it  ...Well,  I would say that this was the best awareness campaign possible…

Now to give the chills to my male readers ...

I suppose you know that the number of men having breast cancer is on the rise. An estimated 10 percent of the world breast cancer population is men, which is supposed to increase again according to recent statistics....





Now I suppose you guys would agree to my statement that Real Men do wear Pink in October ? Or shall we say ....we need to change the color of the October Ribbon to pink and blue cos it is not just women who suffer but men too …… Anyway , we do have such a ribbon now !!

For more reference on cancer ribbons do feel free to visit my website on cancer : 
www.cancerindia.in

Crazy Rambling !!

Coming out of the airport entrance, my driver happened to pullover suddenly towards the right without turning on the indicator lights, when I shouted that one of my papers flew out. I could hear angry shouts coming from a beautiful white Opal Corsa,  ...!!! To my ill luck, a traffic police man suddenly loomed up in front of me from God-knows-where !! My driver was trying his best to pacify the old guy , explaining to him that one of my valuables had fallen out of the car and he had no other way than do this !! The white sedan which came behind had pulled up behind us and a young lady got out wearing a blue jeans and a white kurta .To my surprise I could see the smiling young lady running towards me with open arms ready for a bear hug... ....and in a matter of minutes, I was talking to one of my very best friends from college.We had'nt met for many years now.....and somehow, we had not kept in touch over the mail even. And surprisingly...both of us chattered on like we had never been away.....

This really makes me wonder why we feel comfortable with certain people even when we meet them very rarely or have'nt met for years together...Sometimes this happens even with people whom we meet for the very first time,  to whom we feel like talking as if we had known each other all our lives...whereas we would find it difficult to open ourselves to certain others whom we would have been with us for such a long time .

Just like this, rare incidents happen at times...like love at first sight...finding a friend who understands you in such a way that she would complete your sentences for you...Well ...How do we define such incidents ?
I suppose most of us come across someone whom we seem to have known forever...it could happen between companions with perfect tuning....or even those who've been friends for long...

You may not even actively maintain the friendship ..or make regular calls or send mails...not even forwards ...
But when you meet them after that long gap...you can start from wherever you had left off. It makes you feel like you had been connected at the soul level , all along...

But there are also extremes where certain relationships are short lived and teach you a lesson . And once the lesson is learnt, it ends. It explains why you get affected by a person who fleetingly appears only to disappear in the same manner.

But some people remain for a lifetime in spite of odds.We feel like they are our real friends whom we cannot live without.



There are certain others who pop up suddenly during a difficult time and then disappear again only to reappear in some other difficulty....maybe even after years. They may lend a shoulder for you to cry on , give advice and when you have crossed the difficulty they completely disappear ...

Thinking about all these people, I get reminded of what I had read long time back, about soul mates...Does this mean that these people whose soul get connected to us could be defined as soul mates...these people who perfectly understand you...Or could be that even 'you' may be a soul mate to some other friend !!

Why do we feel this way, only with certain people ? Is it because of similar frequency of thoughts ? Or is this what we often say  "birds of a feather flock together" ? I dont think so....

Is it something connected to reincarnation like the hindu vedas speak ? Well.....I suppose soulmates come in some form or the other....going on from one birth to another ?? A brother could have been a father ...and a mother could have been a sister or a child...a husband could have been a brother...a wife could have been a mother ...

Well, just look at all your relations...those that really matter to you...What I mean is...try to actually SEE them ....Well, do you really get what I mean to say ? Well I suppose that is why ....a husband sometimes tries to play the role of a father ? A girl plays the role of a mother to a friend... a wife behaves like a child...one of the children get attached to you so very much than all the others...??

Just analyse the kind of relationship you share with the people who really mean a lot to you... If you happen to understand this... you may understand what I mean.... Maybe you will recognise your soulmates!

Sounds Crazyyyy ? I suppose this will at least help you to know each one of them better.... and maybe understand everyones actions better ..also you might know how important each one of them is ...in your life..... !!!

Why I call myself a bad blogger !

I have had such a long week and the last thing I want to do is… be serious right now !! 

So…I thought I could make fun of myself… for just being a bad blogger...

But you would imagine....when there are lots of crap going around in this world, why on earth should I write about me and my bad blogging ? Sometimes even I feel I am getting sick of the juvenile lay-out of my blog…

 

And most of the times I do get lazy…After having sat for hours downloading stuff on microRNAs and knockout genes which make my brains shout  back at me...I would nt even feel like raising my little finger ..Forget about blogging …ooh...

But you know… Sometimes I really do get wonderful ideas which I feel like blogging on…some of them are very clever and keep me musing on it. I would feel I am exceptional to get such great ideas !! But when the time comes for me to blog, whatever I decided to post, would look like crap!!!

Then I sit and think over the issue …

Well...To be honest, I sometimes feel that blogs are a kind of shameless self promotion.. And I suppose I too am doing that shamelessly..right ? Ha ha !!

Well..here i want you to understand that I loathe being a white noise amongst lots of other white noises. But still … I don’t want to opt out of it  . I have many points to refute this whereas many reasons to have a blog!! I suppose I am becoming a parasite ? Let me think again???  Okay, not really !!! 

Any way…Now that I have started writing this….Here comes my next big problem…I need a catchy name for this post.

Do you see the point?  This whole thing is just like me being in school again ..not that I am trying to be the best or am trying to come out with juicy blogs to please everyone..

But still…Let me be frank…I sometimes feel like I am trying to carve a niche for myself on the web …now that I have started relating to a few of my butterfly followers , out there , who are always ready to bear with all the holy stuff I write …and many others who could be silently suffering … Its big deal anyway!!

Don’t you think it is ? 

But then i know blogging also involves emotional involvement like any other human interaction.  We feel good when people respond to us and sometimes feel like losers when they dont.

But anyhow.. we need to connect with all those people who love us.  And if you think about it that way, you would certainly feel happy to take that extra time for them. 

Couldn’t hurt, right ????


 

JennyPadua,Nagercoil,TamilNadu,India,JeniPadua
JennyPadua,Nagercoil,TamilNadu,India,JeniPadua

The more people I meet...The more I respect Dogs!!

One of my favorite hobbies is observing people. When I attend parties, the funniest thing I notice is how people behave. The animated gossip of women...the obnoxious backbites...the crazy arguments men have …and how violent they get about it…But the more people I come across in life…the more I seem to respect dogs…because…they seem to deserve more respect than human beings in many ways…

Dogs are forms of unconditional love. They live for their master and are extremely loyal and truthful about it. unlike us humans, forgive and forget bad stuff. They don’t complain and silently bear with us. They'll never forsake their friends. They love you so much that they would follow you to the worlds end .

Dogs are never ashamed to own up their friends however filthy they look. They don’t argue on trivial nonsense or behave like obnoxious know-it-alls. They never give ludicrous excuses and absurd rationalizations for being rude...They don’t make sarcastic remarks and don’t take advantage of friendship .

Dogs miss you so much when you are not there. And dogs never laugh at you when you go wrong. They don’t expect you to wait on them. They are not egoistic. They dont look down upon your intelligence. Dogs don’t kill people emotionally…..

Dogs don’t mind if you take the lead. Dogs understand your instincts . Dogs don’t want to know your history or how rich you are. Dogs are not ashamed to admit when they are lost. Dogs don’t complain.

Dogs are real good friends ....and they'll never want to say... this was'nt friendship...nor was it love , I was just infatuated.. They know only to love, love, and love more…If only a dog could talk…

Dedicated to Duke, my lovely German Shepherd..... And Rocky the wonderful Alsatian who loved us  all unconditionally.....…

JennyPadua,Nagercoil,TamilNadu,India,JeniPadua

Gunshot from Heaven..

 


When the early morning phone call woke me up, I was groping in the dark trying to find my mobile phone. The pink device had slipped out of my hands while I slumbered into deep sleep… Ronan Keating's   song “You say it best when you say nothing at all “ came floating from my mobile phone ...It was my favourite song and I had set it as my ring tone... but now it sounded eerie along with the light which flickered from the device !!


The frantic sound of my friend could be heard on the other end….Jess is very sick !! Could you talk to her now ? She wants to speak to you ! I fumbled in the dark , trying to get to Jess as soon as I could..Jess was in the hospital. They had found cancer.  It was in the worst stage.  I could hear sobs at the other end. She was one of my real good friends..


I tried best to console her but pretty much failed as miserably as I could. Even as I tried to be encouraging, I could find myself whimpering. The words that came out of my rambling mouth were not the least adequate. I knew that this could never be made alright.


Well.. It was the worst thing to happen to a 29 year old..
The least I could do was to ask her to call me anytime, if she needed to vent and get it all out .  I was not sure how much that could have helped Jess, but I heard myself telling her.... I’ll be there for you, in case you need me....


The whole situation was pathetic….unfair.  And there was nothing anyone could do....


I really do wonder why all this happens to people. And it gets too difficult when it is someone whom you really love.  Jess was a very sweet person who had every right to enjoy life like all of us... She was a wife who was the world to her partner …a mother without whom her 8 year old girl could never survive...This should be the very best years of a woman’s life. And she was going to lose everything.....


And finally, the gun shots came in …out of nowhere....Without warning… Hitting harder than anything that had ever hit before....


Jess passed away … it was all too bad …..So unreal..…


We dont understand how much someone means to us until we lose them. I don’t even know if I had really expressed enough to tell Jess how much I cared for her..How much she meant to me…


I keep wondering ... why we dont care to express how much we feel for our family, friends... everyone whom we care  …who they are in our life... I dont know if we really tell them we do love them all so very much...  Tell them we appreciate all that they do for us and how much they mean to us ...Thank them enough for everything that they are in our life....I suppose it is alright even if we are annoying them about it,


But really... We have no idea when the gun shots would come from heaven !!
 




JennyPadua,Nagercoil,TamilNadu,India,JeniPadua

My friend gave birth to me !!

Growing up in a highly orthodox setup, I was disciplined to keep distance with everyone and also to keep up my dignity. I was trained well to be haughty and arrogant and it was a sin if I had a chat with the maid. Well. Let me tell you...I was Daddy’s darling, Mamma’s pet and the Family Icon...!

 

When I was in my ninth grade, special care was taken to delicately tuck me into a car at 9 am with the driver and one of my uncles sitting in front... With me peeping out the window to look at a world which always sped away from me at 60 km / hr.

I loved boogie dancing and was too good at it... But Lo!! My grandpa did not. …But I loved my grandpa...And he was more important to me than dancing…So I danced behind the tightly closed doors of my room.

My teachers were good friends of my family . And so…I accidently came up first in all the competitions I went for…That was injustice to my really talented friends…I loved my friends ….So I said Goodbye to competitions…My friends were more important to me than me winning competitions.

I loved singing...but my granny felt  it was nt apt for children from good families to shout like buffaloes at home....So I restricted my singing to the Soprano classes I had once a week …I loved granny so much and she was more important to me than singing…

I loved sports and was pretty good at it too …but my family didn’t want those rowdies cheering at their little darling..…I let go of sports cos I loved my family….My family was more important to me than sports.

I liked to go to the beach. Little boys and girls played in the beach sand while I sat on the big  cloth spread out for me so that my lovely satin dress would not get spoiled. I would have given everything I had…..just to play in the sand…just to make a sand castle…. Just to squish the sand once with my bare foot.  But of course … I was assured that those children playing on the beach were not as lucky as me!!!

Finally…I loved loneliness … and no one seemed to take it away from me!! I was happy I had lots of freedom in my room …and no one to break the silence…..

I sailed on this way for a long time ....when I had the honor and privilege of meeting one precious person who became a beacon of light for me and I started seeking his help every step of the way.

Caterpillar that I was , afraid of light even...always in my cocoon ...this person worked wonders through his advices....He taught me to think !! To fight for existence !! I think I need to say a few words about this wayfarer...


This loner never knew to smile ..He never was kind to unfaithfullness and pretense....was not all that loving to ignorance .....He was kind of a fighting bull.....fighting against injustice, fighting against  what ever he felt was wrong, losing his temper at the slightest note of distaste.....His strong personality and individuality inspired me....to be like him....I never had fought with anyone and he knew he had to shake me out of my cocoon and wouldnt have minded bursting it open to get me out of it !

And finally one day I burst my cocoon to pieces and came out , a wonderful butterfly...I knew I could fly high without anyone to help me ..I knew  I could travel far cos I found the hidden strength within me...

I have been doing lots since then... all on my own... I let go of my prejudices..my fears...my superstitions...I emerged into a completely different person whom everyone could look up to... In fact he gave birth to me ...The  real new me who did not live "only" for others but also for me !!

Everyone was surprised at the change in me...The shy person who could not  once drive around alone in my car had come out as an independent Iron butterfly  who could address masses and drove around for miles on social issues not fearing my ties !!! In fact I love my freedom so much now and people respect me for my individuality....... I feel I am born again !

And I dedicate this to my friend who gave birth to me... Who helped me find the real me !

JennyPadua,Nagercoil,TamilNadu,India,JeniPadua

Returns come the other way !!

Until recently, like many others I too used to think I never did expect anything in return for what I did.
Well...I used to tell myself I was perfect. I felt proud I had the natural goodness in me which made me love and serve everyone unconditionally . But recently  I started feeling  that I was totally wrong.






I was only thinking  of all the monetary help I had done for others for which I hadn’t expected returns.
And never once did I  think about how much I was expecting returns from everyone " emotionally".

I suppose I was doing good ...because I wanted God to bless me...So had'nt I expected something in return for my deeds ?

I kept showering love on others and did things to make them happy . But was'nt it because i wanted them to love me in return? Again , I had expected returns ?

Well... When I start thinking this way I feel quite uneasy.  ...But most of us do this ...dont we ? And maybe, we all have trouble only because we expect returns to come from the same person. Well.. I suppose it usually doesn’t work that way? 

Sometimes it even comes in the form of the "happiness" we get when we make someone happy?? I ve felt this kind of unusual happiness  many times when I give gifts to people ...

well...again this is another one big confusion I have...i still dont know if it is alright  to give gifts to people ? And I still dont know if  they really feel happy getting those gifts ? oopss ...I am going off my track right now .. I suppose i'll write about this later !!

Well....They say ... 
What you withhold will be withheld from you.

If you expect love ... give love.
If you expect people to understand you... Try to understand them …
If you expect people to appreciate you ... show your appreciation for them.
If you want help, lend a helping hand....blah blah blah !!!

But I am sure it is not that simple???

We are not throwing a boomerang everytime we do something good for others ...to expect it to return back to us just like that ? I suppose returns dont come back from the same direction  ...

Could be that they come the other way !!! HA HA ...

JennyPadua,Nagercoil,TamilNadu,India,JeniPadua