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ASUS EeeBook X205TA - I am loving it

Two weeks before, my laptop was behaving crazy and was displaying all multi-colors. When I took it for repair, it was out of warranty and hence I paid Rs.1000 for service and Rs.5000 for LCD replacement. My battery back-up is also not good these days. It hardly stays for 5 minutes. It has been 2 years I purchased this laptop and it’s time to buy a new one. I researched a lot for these past 2 weeks and found that ASUS EeeBook X205TA is very good and would adopt my lifestyle.

Why ASUS?
As the ASUS company tag line says “Inspiring Innovation. Persistent Perfection”, all the ASUS products like mobile phones, desktops and laptops has innovation in it. The Chinese company are the best in manufacturing the motherboards. Since motherboard is the heart of a computer, it’s much essential to check the quality of the mother board. ASUS being a Chinese company would be best in manufacturing the mother board. And also, ASUS is the world's fifth-largest vendor after HP, Lenovo, Dell and Acer.

Windows 8.1 Operating System with Microsoft Office 365:


ASUS EeeBook X205TA offers the full version of Microsoft Office 365 with one year subscription. It almost covers all the essential things like Word, Excel, Powerpoint and outlook that every software techie would be looking for. Here is the amazing and interesting news - ASUS EeeBook X205TA offers with 1 TB of online cloud storage. 

Asus WebStorage:
At times, I will not be able to carry my laptop, but would be in position to access the files. This Asus WebStorage helps me to sync all my files, so that I can easily access it from anywhere. It offers 2 years of  500 GB web storage absolutely free!!!

Portable and Weight Less:



I am an avid Trekker and love to explore more places. But I face lot of challenges when I go for a 3-4 day trekking. Technology has become so part of my life, that I can’t stay without Gadgets without a day. Though iPod and mobile are good to read at some extent, my eyes get strained while reading it in small screens. That's why I prefer a large screen to read and use. Already I would be carrying heavy luggage like 3 liter of water bottles, tent and back pack, so its a poor idea to carry laptop during travel.

Astonishingly the weight of ASUS EeeBook X205TA is less than 1 KG and only 17.5mm thickness. It’s easy to carry in shoulder bag. Even the power adapter is very compact, that I can carry it in my pocket.

Very Good Back-up:
When I go for trekking in dense forest, there is no option to charge the laptop. Hence, I always look for an excellent backup. The ASUS EeeBook X205TA comes with two cell battery and can provide up to 12 hours of battery life.
Wow!!! That’s more than enough to browse all my emails and files before I got for sleep. It comes with VGA Web Camera, which would help me to connect through skype wtih all my friends and family when I am out of city



Built-in Speakers:
The ASUS EeeBook X205TA has Built-in Speakers and hence it would be helpful in playing music during campfire.

QUAD- CORE processes: 

QUAD Core processor which means it has 4 processing cores in a single chip.In layman terms, it has  four separate processors, which would help a lot during multi-tasking.

Service Centers in over 80 cities:
The service centers are over 80 cities. So no issues, in case of any problems too

Three reasons to choose ASUS EeeBook X205TA. Its versatile, simple and powerful.

This post is written as a part of Go Sleek! contest ASUS EeeBook X205TA and ASUS All In One PC ET2040 organized by Indiblogger.in 

A Cute proposal on Valentine's day

A Cute proposal on Valentine's day February 14th 
12.00 A.M
“Hi Karthick, Good morning. I am damn crazy about you. Can we meet sometime tomorrow?.” I called him anonymously.
I know for his attitude, he never considers even if someone proposes him directly. Is he going to take the blank call seriously?
“Well, thank you, But I have lots of work tomorrow and can’t meet you. Take care bye” He replied.
Beep. Beep. Beep.!!!
The call got disconnected. I am confident that, he will accept my love before the end of Valentine ’s day, because I had planned so well. The next day morning as soon as he got up, I knew he would come straight to the wash-basin to wash his face and brush his teeth. So, I had written “LUV You :) ” with close-up paste on the mirror.
Img Source - ilovecoffeebookKarthick sister is my close friend and hence staying at his home was an easy task for me. As expected, Karthick ignored the writing on the mirrors concluding that one of his family members is playing pranks with him on Valentine’s day. His parents have gone out to the temple and only his sister and I were at home. I prepared a coffee with a heart art and offered him. He wished good morning, got engrossed into newspaper and started drinking the coffee without observing my coffee art.

PLAN 2 FAILED!!!
But I had another chance, I have written “LUV You :) ” at the bottom of the cup. Plan 3 too got failed, since he left a few of the coffee drops in the cup :(
I am sure Plan 4 will succeed. He got ready to office and walked towards his bike. He observed a greeting card and a gift box placed on his bike seat. He opened the gift box and saw 2 platinum rings. A person who is playing pranks will not be spending so much. He felt something was serious and called his sister to enquire about the parcel. We both acted, as if we are unaware of it.


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If Karthick gets doubt on me, I would consider myself lucky. But its human tendency to ignore the things which is near to us, and search something that don’t exist. Karthick did the same, he did not doubt me. He took out his mobile and scrutinized his call logs. I called him from a private number, how would he find the details of the call that he received at 12.00. With puzzled look, he kick started his bike and rushed to the office.

ZOOM OUT
Before 6 Years.
“Hey Deeps, our seniors are looking for one person who is very good at dancing and I suggested your name since you were one among the top 10 contestants in the "Dance Machi Dance" show,” Evelyn said.
I gave her a bright close-up smile and went to my college auditorium, where they were practicing. A group of 3 guys and 2 girls were doing warm-up exercises. All of a sudden I was little nervous because all of them were my super-seniors. I snail paced towards the stage and among the three, one guy's dance style glued my eyes. I was immersed in his movements and did not realise the steps. My legs fumbled, slipped and fell on the floor. That’s is when I caught my seniors' attention and they came towards me for help.
After the help, Karthick (yeah, the guy whom I admired a lot) came straight to the point, “We have inter-College Cultural Fest in 10 days. With this leg, will you be able to dance.”
I was shocked, yet loved his attitude. On hearing my yes, he requested other to start the practice and narrated his conditions to me, “Well, we would be practicing day and night. I need your complete dedication for these ten days. Day scholar or hostel?” He did not wait for my answer. But continued, “If day’s scholar, please get a permission from our chairman to stay in the hostel for these 10 days. Past 3 years, we bag the prize for dance competitions and this year I want the same to happen”. 
I shook my head and then he played a song and requested me to choreograph and dance for it immediately. When my mind struck that he was keeping an audition for me, I told him, “I have been the top 10 in Dance Machi Dance show”
“So what? You did not win the title right? Every dance has its own style, and I want to check whether you are able to perform this dance style” 
What an attitude!!! I cleared the audition, but without my mind's knowledge my heart started developing a crush on him. He was my pair in the dance and I was pampered a lot, since I was the only junior in their gang.It was for a fusion of 5 songs and one of the song was for “Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega” 

Karthick started liking after seeing my dance styles and dedication. He was in the final year and hence in 4 months, he would be completing the college. I thought of proposing on the last day but I felt I was too young to do. May be I must finish college. I told myself. After that Kartick left the city for his higher education and no contacts between us.

I willingly became friend with Karthick’s sister. Every month Karthick’s mom used to travel to Tiruvannamalai temple (which is 250 kms from Chennai) to circumnavigate. I followed her 2 months and for the 3rd visit, she invited me and thus I become one of the family members.

ZOOM IN
I know Karthick would be expecting a call from me(that anonymous call) and hence I called him once he reached office.
“Hi Karthick, it’s me again. Hope, you are ready to meet now?”
“Hmm, tell me where I should meet you”
“VGP Golden beach. Please come before the Sunset.”

5.00 P.M,
VGP Golden beach,

As soon as he reached the beach, a guys of 15 people started to perform flash mob. After 5 minutes, the song "Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega" played and I entered with the same dance slow and romantic movements which I danced with Karthick before many years in our college. The sun was about to set and the song was about to get over. I observed karthick going down with a bent knee and he took my hand and slid a ring on my finger and asked, “Will you marry me?”

Before I could recover from the shock, he continued, “I was in love with you, the moment I saw you for the first time in the college. And after that, it was all my plan. I willingly excluded one of my seniors from the dance so that I can include you in my dance group. Rest all you know.”
“So, you know that I am following you for past 6 years.” He smiled sheepishly and said, “And I enjoyed every bit of it”
“You” I took my hand to give him a punch and he pulled me closer. Romance Filled the air

This post is written as a part of Cupid Games 2015 Happy hours contest organized by Indiblogger. 

KURUKSHETRA | Krishna Udayasankar | Book Review

 KURUKSHETRA | Krishna Udayasankar | Book Review
About the Book:
War is upon the realm, but is Aryavarta prepared for what will follow?

The empire that was Aryavarta fades under the shadow of doom. As the bitter struggle to gain control of the divided kingdom ensues, Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa of the Firstborn and the Secret Keeper of the Firewrights can only watch as their own blood, their kin, savage and kill on the fields of Kurukshetra. Restraint and reason have deserted the rulers who once protected the land and they manipulate, scheme and kill with abandon - for victory is all that matters.

At the heart of the storm stands Govinda Shauri, driven by fickle allies and failed kings, to the very brink of darkness. He may well be the greatest danger Aryavarta has faced yet, for he is determined to change things forever. Reforging the forsaken realm in the fire of his apocalyptic wrath, he prepares to destroy everything he loves and make the ultimate sacrifice of them all for the sake of one last hope: that humanity will rise, that there will be revolution.

In the spectacular, entrancing final episode of The Aryavarta Chronicles , Krishna Udayasankar's recreation of the world of the Mahabharata establishes her as a storyteller of formidable power and imagination.

About the Author(Krishna Udayasankar)

Krishna Udayasankar is a graduate of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, and holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the Nanyang Business School, Singapore, where she presently works as a lecturer.

Govinda, Krishna's bestselling debut novel and the first in the Aryavarta Chronicles series of mytho-historical novels, received critical acclaim. She is also the author of Objects of Affection, a full-length collection of poetry (Math Paper Press, 2013) and is an editor of Body Boundaries: The Etiquette Anthology of Women's Writing (The Literary Centre, Forthcoming, 2013).

When she is not watching Rajinikanth movies first-day, first-show, complete with applause and whistles, or hanging out with her fictional characters, Krishna can be found with her family, which includes two book-loving Siberian Huskies, Boozo and Zana.
Few stories like Mahabharata, Ramayana are the one which people never get bored of. It re-ietereas the deapth of a reationship. which is right, whcih is wrong. Once in a life time, people should read the epic Mahabharata since it preaches philosophical and devotional values of life. There have been authors who try to pendown thier creativey by travlling through the history in which is less travelled or unsaid and here is such one. Yes, the author Krishna Udaysankar comes with her own version of the epic -  KURUKSHETRA. She claims that it is "The Epic As It Was Never Told"; Did she succedd in telling the epic in a new way? Read on

My Review:

KURUKSHETRA - the third and the last series of the The Aryavrata Chronicles Trilogy. The first two books in this trilogy are Govinda and Kaurava
It really took lot of willpower to get invovled initially wiht the story and the writer's style. The book revolves around the war. The good part about the book is all the characters shown in the movie are projected in a Gray styled. Meaning, None of the characters told in the story are either projected in a negative or positive way. Even, Shikhandin who has feminine qualities is considered as great warrior.
To be frank, I am highly disappointed with the book, since its the same Mahabharata told in the different way so called creativity

If you are a die-hearted fan of Mahabharata, I am sure you won’t love this book. Its just the edited version of Mahabharata,
If you are not familiar with Mahabharata, you will be wondering whether you landed in the world of Latin and Greek. and my kind advice don't ever think of reading the book, if you have not read the previous two books.


Cons:
1. Complexity of the language.
2. The epic names has been changed.


Title: The Aryavrata Chronicles, Book 3 - Kurukshetra
Author: Krishna Udayasankar
Publisher: Hachette India
ISBN: 978-93-5009-718-2
Number of Pages: 427
Price: 350 [INR]
Genre: Mythofiction

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How to Stop People Littering on Roads.

How to Stop People Littering on Roads. 
An uneducated rag picker or newspaper hawker kind of child, distributing pamphlet which has an advertisement of some free education classes with contact number. A guy says, “I am already educated.”The boy replies, “If you are then why are you behaving like uneducated?” 
The rest says it all. There is one thing in the world that makes me angry to the core. i.e Littering our Mother India. I hate people who spit and throw non-degradable plastics on the road. Whenever I see people littering, I could not control myself and convey them not to spit on road as much as politely I can. But do you know what kind of response I get from them?
“What’s your problem?” “Fu**  Off” “Was it your road?” “Mind your Business?” "Its my mouth, My paan, I will do anything" “unga appa pota road ah?” (Meaning – Was it constructed by your dad, to ask this?) 
Okay, some people keep quite. But give the following expressions. 

There is third category people too. Who don’t scold me in return; never show any off those faces too. But Push lot of saliva to the mouth and spit it with full force. 
Most of the walls, Subways, Public Toilets are littered by people who chew paan and betel leaves. Only dog piss, when it sees a wall or pole. Are you worse than the dogs which have only five senses? Spitting it on seeing the walls and poles? 
Three out of one bus are spoiled because of littering. They don’t care about the people on road. All they are concerned is to offer a free paan shower from inside the bus 

No one loves to say, avoid me. But I do.  Please avoid me. I never die so easily and if you throw me on soil, I can easily migrate dangerous chloride, heavy phthalates and contaminate the environment. - Plastics
Why don’t you consider me burying inside the soil rather than spiting on walls? I am a good bio degradable item.  - Paan



I am the Co-Founder of Bangalore-Hikers and never urge Smoking, chewing tobacco and alcohol consumption during the trekking. There is one more point, which I follow strictly. That is “No Littering”
Img Source - Bangalore Hikers
Nature has gifted us beautiful places. But we are simply spoiling it. 
Img Source - greatindian.timesofindia.com
If today, I am against the littering, it’s because of one person and one incident.Long back, I went to Jogi Matti Forest for a trek and when we halted to take rest, someone offered me a chocolate. I ate that chocolate and threw the chocolate wrapper in air. The Bangalore Hikers co-founder- Santhosh, gave a smile. He dint say anything. He just took the wrapper from the land and kept it inside his pant pocket. That was the most awkward moment I faced. If he told me not to throw, damn sure I must have told something in return. But after this incident, I never throw any plastic on road. When I pack the wrapper in my bag or keep it in my pant packet to throw in a dustbin later, I feel proud of myself. We collect all the plastic found during our hiking and throw it after reaching the city, or when we find a dustbin. The happiness you get that moment is unsaid. You feel, as if you achieved something good. So, how to stop others from spitting? 
I don't think so, on placing a board “Don’t spit Here" signs everywhere will help. Because you know what happens? People get curious to spit, whenever they see “Don’t spit Here board”, See what happens in the below picture. 


When I saw the above The Great Indian Litterbug image, I was never surprised. Because I know there are lot of people who is thoughtless and insensitive and take these as their new resolution pledge too. So, how to deal with them? here are few tips to reduce littering. 




When you find a person spitting on road, appreciate him.“Wow, that’s a good spit. I simply love the color of your paan. I love the force you gave. It’s simply awesome. I need a favor from you. I hate a person. Can you please spit on him. Please…Please.. I will give you 20 rupees.”
Throw some sand on the place he Spitted and gave him a smile, which would embarrass him and the next time he may think before he spits.  Install announcement systems all over the places and the traffic police can appreciate the spitting people in mike. "Hello Red shirt, standing with a yellow bag, scratching his head now. I appreciate you for spitting on the road. We are looking forward for more supports. We are in sort of paints, so I request you to eat more betel and paint the walls with your art. Keep Spitting. Keep littering!!!" 
The people around him can clap for him and award him the most litter award.



This post is written as a part of The Great Indian Litterbug contest organized by TimesofIndia in association with Indiblogger
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P.S: Though this post is to write about in favor of Littering (humorous take on The Great Indian Litterbug! ), I can’t contribute towards Littering. I love my mother India and I respect it as my mother. So, till my last breath, I will fight against littering and will work for a clean India. Will not make Littering a Humor :( 

The Archers Revenge by Destination Infinity

The Archers Revenge by Destination Infinity 
The story starts with Arya's Mission to kill the minister who was visiting the mountainous Temple town of Tirupati. When I scrutinized the Book title "Archers Revenge" and the sample chapters that was available on Amazon, my mind concluded that it must be a story of a guy Aryan who must be passionate to get a Olympic gold medal for Archery. The Minister must have played politics in his passion and hence he is trying to take revenge. (Tamil movies spoiled me a lot)

The first time when I received the book, I was double excited since it has only 136 pages. I was really taken back by the recent gift of A Passionate Gospel of True Love which has more than 500 pages. I started reading it immediately and finished the book in just 2 hours. It’s a very easy read and it keeps you glue to the story. The story just revolves around 3 characters. Arya, Divya and Guru. Since the story is about taking revenge, it’s understood that whatever plan they implement to kill the Minister would fail till the climax. But the way the author handled the story and failures are good. There were little fun elements between Arya and Divya which makes us to smile at few places.

The story starts with Chapter 0 (Prologue) and then Chapter 9,8...1 and then Chapter 1, 2 which was an excellent way to tell the past and present.
Like the Tirupathi hairpin bends there are lots of twists in between the story too and many motivating sentence as well.

Pros:
1. Very Easy Read
2. Language used is Lucid
3. Nice twist at the climax.

Logic Loop Holes:
1. Guru loses his Minister Post and become a normal person. But during his Anniversary visit to Tirupati he comes in the same Ambassador emitting a siren noise. I believe the siren noise is used only for the people in post.
3. Divya was projected such a way that she was given full freedom to choose her path. If that is the case, will her parents force her in Bride seeing ceremony?
4. If the CBI officers are able to track his moves through GPS location, even the police officers should have found his whereabouts long back.

Overall, It’s a very good story from Debut novel!!!

Rating - 3.25/5  (3 For the Story and Twist, 0.25 for a nice plot from debutant author)

A healthy child makes a happy home.

A healthy child makes a happy home.
Today I happened to clean my house and came across my personal Journal that I was maintaining from past 25 years. 
March 10th 1990. . .
Today there was a writing competition at my school Organized by Dabur India. The topic was "A healthy child makes a happy home" When I read the sentence, my mind flashed about my uncle Mr. Natarajan who was a multi-millionaire in 1970’s. He is known for his intelligence, Hardworking, good and kind-hearted nature. He had 2 sons - Pari Natarajan and Praveen Natarajan. As soon as he finished his son’s marriage, he divided his complete property into three and offered it to his 2 sons and took one share for him. He told his sons to lead thier own life and to start a business based on thier own interest.
With the money in hand, both Pari and Praveen started a new business. The eldest son Pari Natarajan started Alloy steels. Soon he was blessed with 2 female kids. His business grew and he succeeded like a hell. Mr.Pari recently gave an interview. What was his success factor? He said its because of his 2 beautiful daughters. "They are my inspiration. I go weird on seeing their positive energy and beautiful smile. Every morning, I play with them, go to swimming and the energy I get from kids is unexplained and it motivates the day."

Unfortunately, Praveen Natarajan too started Garments business. He succeeded rapidly than Pari uncle. He started to export the clothes and he started his business worldwide. Everything went smooth until. . .

One day he found his daughter fainted while playing. They took to the hospital and realized that she was having some problem with the heart. They took her to Bangalore. No use of treatments. They found the best hospitals in Singapore and stayed over there for her treatments. He joined his elder daughter in Ooty Convent School hostel, to concentrate on his Younger’s daughter treatments. Months passed. He lost his focus on his business. He was always stressed. He avoided family functions, since he was spending time for his daughter treatments. The business went on loss. I wonder whether god exists in the world. Because he took away the kids life. That point of time, I realized, how Healthy kids play a vital role in a family.

September  29th 1999:
I never liked my wife at the time of marriage. We had lots of conflicts in each and every decision. In-fact I thought of divorcing her. When our hardness was about to reach the peak, she was conceived. We thought its our fate to stay together. But after my son’s birthday, our love towards him made us closer and the intimacy between use us grew. I must say that if today me and wife are staying together it is because of my son's birth. No, its not with the compulsion. But we understood that we have similar interest for our son. Never knew, a happy kid would change a person's life.

August 19th 2013Today I came from office with a severe head ache and stress due to office work and pressure. My 5 year old kid came running towards me with lots of love and affection. In fraction of second, all my stress wiped off.  That love and affection and his positive energy made me to forget all my stress and head ache.

December 14th 2014
My M.D is very bold and strong. He got a call in-between an important meeting. He excused us and went outside the meeting room to attend the call. All we could hear was a screech sound of our MD.
We are rushed to see what happened to him. He cried and shouted. It took 15 minutes to make him normal. His hands was trembling. We called back the same number and came to understand that his Son's school van met with an accident and his son was hospitalized. Though he was literally very strong, this incident shook him to the core. He sat at the corner of the hospital without knowing what is happening in and around him.

A bright smile lightened his face, only when the doctor said his son is safe and out of danger zone. Kids are very important to one person life and Kids play a vital role in Family happiness.


January 3rd 2015:
My grandma was diagnosed with cancer and doctor said its impossible to cure her. Since it was the duty to take care of my mother, my dad brought her to my home and offered all the medical treatment possible. My son started mingling with her and she started listening to my son naughty stories, his day experience and so on.

Soon, my grandma started walking and felt so active. I won’t say that she was saved from cancer. But yes, she is surviving more than the expected day. It’s all because of the magic of the kids.

When I finished reading my Dairy I learned the value of healthy children.

In-fact, taking care of kids is another sensitive thing. They don’t know what is good and what is bad. They tend to get wet in rain and play in water. They don’t know the impact of getting cold and fever due to it. Everyday freaking traffic, pollution and climatic changes affect the kids a lot. Kids also don't have immunity power as that of adults and hence bacteria's and virus love to go and rule a kids body. I was surprised to see a kid with 100% attendance in school. Its rarely 5 to 10 kids in a school of 10,000.

They eat lots of chocolates and ice-creams and tend to spoil their teeth. They take out their bi-cycle and race with their fellow kids. They are kids and all they know is to face the world without any fear.



So, was it not our duty to protect the wealth of our family the kid? Make sure you include Dabur Chyawanprash atleast twice a day in their diet plan. It has herbs like Amla the best antioxidants and gives you 3X of immunity. It increases Natural Killer Cells that is very much needed for immune system






This post is written as a part of "A healthy child makes a happy home" contest organized by Indiblogger. 



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5 Tips to make your husband help in Laundry

Recently I read an article "Is Laundry only a woman's job?" on BlogAdda and was curious to know about the survey result. So, I modified few questions and opened up the survey to my friends. To my surprise I got completely contradictory results.  Please find below my survey results.





Then I found my mistake. I should have opened up the survey anonymously. People feel safe in an anonymous environment and they open up truthful answers. I opened the survey again requesting them to answer anonymously and to my shock I got most accurate data matching against the Ariel's survey conducted by AC Nielsen. Below are the statics.







From the above survey one thing I understood. Even Men feel proud to say they help their mom and wife in Laundry. In other words, they feel little embarrassed to say they don’t help the women at home.  But do they really help women at home?
My dad helps my mom in everything and washes his clothes himself. But not every women is lucky enough to get a good person like my dad.
There are family where they believe Laundry is a woman's job irrespective of "Working woman", "Not well", "Tired" labels. How to change this inequality?.

Below are the few ideas that struck my mind. Thank you dad, for helping me out in this ideas. Please note, the goal is to provide useful tips for women so as to reduce the laundry burden. Each Experiment is designed for the novice, with comprehensive details of required materials, results and so on...
Experiment 1
Eat-Out Experiment
Purpose
To make your husband help in Laundry.
Additional information
Its little expensive at the beginning, but its worth the result.
Required Items:

HusbandYou Kids (If Any)Restaurant Little bit of acting skills Step-By-Step Procedure.

As soon as he comes from office, tell him dinner is not ready because you did not find enough time.Husband will plan to take you out.Order as much as food you can and eat everything.Make sure bill cross 1000.Repeat for 5 days.Show the Expense report to your husbandHusband will shout at you for crossing the "Monthly Budget"Tell him that, you were busy washing his clothes and did not have time to cook the dinner. Figures & Illustrations

Note:
You should act in such a way that you are feeling helpless for increasing the monthly bill
Observation:
You husband will be scared to face the Monthly expense and hence he will opt to help you in laundry.

Result:
Your husband will be Washing the clothes and you can prepare the dinner.
Sometimes, you can swap the work as well.

Experiment 2
Rangoli - Dirty Holi Experiment
Purpose:
To make your husband help in Laundry.
Duration:
1 day
Additional information:
If you are angry with your husband, take out your husband’s favorite dress or lucky dress.
Required Items:

Husband Shirt You Holi water Gun. (Alternative – Water bottles – Put hole in cap)Colors – Pink and Deep Pink (No Alternative, since Guys hate pink and will work out more)PS. Keep children’s away. They may inform your husband. 
Step-By-Step Procedure.

Spray the pink color holi powder and leave it for an hour. As soon as your husband comes, scold him for spoiling his shirt. Your husband will be wondering, how did the shirt spoiled. In the meantime, offer him washing powder and lock inside the washroom with the shirt.

Figures & Illustrations

Observation:
Your husband will wash the shirt, since it is his favorite shirt.
Result:
This is just a base. Keep motivating him and transfer the Laundry job completely

Experiment 3Hide and Seek Experiment:Purpose:To make your husband help in Laundry. Duration:1 dayAdditional information:Rowdy Rathore movie to watch the tricks of a ThiefRequired Items:Stealing SkillsHiding Skills. YouYour HusbandStep-By-Step Procedure.Steal all the entertainment items from the home and hide it in a place, where your husband cant find. Example - TV Remote, Bike and Car keys, Laptop, His mobile phone... etcYour Husband will come home to watch TV. He will not find the remote.He will search bike/Car keys to go out. He will not find.He will search laptop to work, again he cant find.He will search for his mobile, to chat or play. He will not find. He may try to sleep. Before he goes to sleep, Offer him Coffee and Red-bull so that he will be so energetic. Make sure you lock the door. Otherwise, he may go out for a walk. Basically house arrest him. Figures & Illustrations


Note:Don’t hide the washing Machine by curiosity. Observation:Your husband will be damn bored and will beg you to offer some work. Give him Laundry job Result:Your husband will help you in Laundry. 
Experiment 4One-One Help Experiment:Purpose:To make your husband help in Laundry. Additional Information:Dont invite Male friends. It will result in adverse effect. 
Required Items:Your husband's Girl Friend.YouYour HusbandDinner PartyStep-By-Step Procedure.Invite your Husband office Colleague or his girl friend for a dinner party. Please note: The office colleague has to be your best buddy as well. Praise your husband that he helps in laundry in front of her.Your friend in turn,should praise your husband.Figures & Illustrations
Note:In turn, you should go to her home and do the same experiment, so that her husband helps in laundry. After all its Mutual understanding. Observation:To impress his girl friend, your husband will help out in LaundryResult:Your husband will help you in Laundry. 
Experiment 5:This or That Experiment:Purpose:To make your husband help in Laundry. Additional Information:It is very risky. Required Items:
Your husbandYouYour sonDuplicate mark sheet. Step-By-Step Procedure.Prepare a Duplicate mark sheet of your son/daughter with Zero marks in all subjects.Your husband will shout at you for not teaching the child.Tell him that you don't find time to teach your child, since you are busy with laundry job.Now, give him an option, Teach kid or Lanundry job.If he choose Laundry job, then fine the experiment ended smoothly.If he choose to teach kid, then offer him the toughest subject like Maths or General knowledge. He must be weak in at-least one subject. Find that and offer him the subject. Your hubby will feel, laundry job is easy and will jump to laundry job. Figures & Illustrations:


Note:Make sure he does not take the Progress report and go to school to meet Head master. You can see your hubby washing all the time, just to escape from kids question and teaching. Result:Your husband will help you in Laundry. 
“I am writing for #IsLaundryOnlyAWomansJob activity at BlogAdda.com in association with Ariel.”

I am a Pizza Face! An ADULT with ACNE!

I am a Pizza Face! An ADULT with ACNE!

ACNE VULGARIS - the name sounds UGLY! Isn't it?? So does the effects of acne on adolescents and sometimes on adults, both physically and psychologically!

Acne Vulgaris, commonly called as acne/pimples is not just Skin Deep, its much beyond that! I am a victim of it in my late 20s, thought of sharing my personal experiences on this blog.

The very fact of Acne in most cases starts with the puberty, that's when the adolescents try to build/shape up their personalities. It adds to the feelings of body image, self-esteem and other emotional issues. The raging hormones cause lot of anxiety about the physical appearances, attractions, etc. and the peer acceptance/status is important at that crucial stage.

Everyone wants to look perfect! Most of us have complained about every feature in our body, a crooked nose, an uneven smile, or dull eyes, a drooping shoulder or anything. We don't have tolerance for any imperfections in our body!

The victims, so like me, spend most of the time in front of the mirror or in the bathroom, trying to cover it up and it becomes so obvious in our day to day activities, the so-called affective display. The affective display in psychological terms, is the subject's externally displayed affect.

Acne just don't cause a dent in your face or body, but on your self-esteem, if not treated properly. By treatment, I just don't mean to say, clinical treatment, but a way out to build up self-esteem. It's not just cosmetic!

Here are the little things, that I have come across, while I was a victim of acne. This is more of a Mind-Skin connection.

1. Body Dysmorphic Disorder: 


A disfiguring acne could lead to the dissatisfaction with appearance, i.e. having a poor body image. You start believing in unreal imperfections and the preoccupation or even obsessed with the imperfections. The victim becomes self-consciousness, and lacks self-confidence and spends hours thinking about a real or perceived flaw causing embarrassment. It causes social dysfunction, including concerns about interactions with the opposite gender, appearances in public, interacting with strangers. It infuses negative thinking patterns, may even have thoughts of suicide or make a suicide attempt. My case was never that worse!!

2. Embarrassment:
Every other social meet/party/family function makes you feel low, with the acne all over your face and mind! Irritating myths about acne like poor hygiene or sex hormones causing acne embarrasses you to the core and you really feel like avoiding conversations or interactions with relatives or friends. I have experienced social anxiety and general avoidance of activities that bring attention to my condition. For God sake, acne has no concrete reason and a multifactorial issue.

3.Feelings of Unworthiness:
Resisting social pressure is difficult for teenagers, for anyone! How much ever the victims try to pose a strong image, a feeling of unworthiness prevails within them. Mood disturbances, breakout, lack of peer status, cause depression.  These behavioral problems take a toll on the career, relationships etc.

4. Emotional Stress:
Having your face scrutinized by others is the most stressful thing in the world. You just feel that you are on a display. Unlike other dermatologic diseases that can be covered by clothing, acne is mostly visible and causing enough trauma and stress. Emotional Stress and Acne is a causality dilemma, like a chicken and egg problem. Emotional Stress is an effect of Acne, wherein its also a cause for acne!


5. Advice:


You probably heard all sorts of advice about why you developed acne and how to deal with it.
“You eat too much of a junk!” “You don’t wash your face enough!” “Drink lots of water!”"Get a tan"... Huh..Enough is said.. You get to see, everyone on the road coming up with a diet plan for you, a beauty product for you...You would not believe that my cupboard was filled with turmeric powder to astringents, which were forcibly bought under compulsion or influence of friends.

And friends, now its my advice time. I have been through all the drama and trauma and now nothing could break me! Here is what I followed,

--> Get More Sleep
--> Drink More Water
--> Hang out with friends, Get some air
--> Go with light or no makeup at home
--> Watch your diet
--> Get on the dance floor or hit the gym to fight out stress
--> Fall in Love

Above all the most effective method for Pimple Free skin:

--> Use Garnier Neem Face Wash twice a day for a long term solution to all the skin problem and to get clear and Pure Skin. 

My Grandma always say Neem contains anti bacterial properties. Garnier Neem Face contains Neem Leaf Extract and Tea-Tree Oil which helps in oil control and remove the the Pimples marks as well. Its contains soap-free formula and hence it is gentle on skin. Once you use Garnier Neem Face Wash, acne say bye to your skin and you get addicted to it!!!

More than all, say out loud "Yes, I am an adult with acne and I know to deal with it". It really works! And go SELFIE!!

This post is written as a part of Garnier Pure Active Neem contest organized by Indiblogger.

Things that define me

Things that define me
In Schools, a student who is good at academics will be nominated as Class Leader.

But a student who is good at academic and possess a set of excellence in the extra curricular activities like Drama, Dance, music, sports will be nominated as School people leader. They always look confident and admired by others. This is a proof that a person who is multi-talented only excels.

Gone are the days where parents felt "MARKS" are the integral part of life. To survive in this world, a person has to be multi-talented. The increasing summer classes such as swimming, tennis, dance class, computer and increasing badminton, chess clubs, are the proof towards it. We are living in a world, where everything has become competitive.

A Cricket player can't be successful only if he is good at bating. He should be good at bowling too at-least to some extend. We are living in such a competitive world, and in order to survive we should know the basic of everything.

"Don't be dependent on others. Learn as much as skills you can to be independent and successful." 

That's the secret mantra to succeed in this era.

Yes, I always believe the important thing in a game is not winning, but at-least taking part. I am a software professional, but I don't wish to settle with that label/tag alone. That's why I step into every aspect of life.

I am a Blogger, Author, Trekker, Athlet, Dancer, Director/cinematographer, Basketball player, Badminton Player, chef.

Blogger:
I started blogging in 2009 and definitely my sister's son Sanju is the inspiration for writing an article and here is the first article.

Author:
Like most actress say “it’s was an accident” for me to become an author. I posted an article, “Life is to live” on my blog  to which received good response. Based on the same theme, I wrote a short story and published chapter wise every week on my blog. My Reader’s motivation made it convert to a novel. Now working on the second novel.



Trekker:
On a weekend, you can find me either in a rain-forest or on an expedition to outskirts. The passion towards Trekking made me to start a trekking club Bangalore Hikers a non-profit trekking organization.

Director/cinematographer:
I have created book Trailer for my novel Touch of Mist and "Dad my role Model" Video for Gillette's My Role Model contest organized by BlogAdda  and won the first prize. 




Chef:
Though very women has an inbound talent for cooking, I love to watch you-tube and explore Various cuisines. The real happiness lies in cooking for he person whom you love.

Dancer:
I enjoy a lot while dancing. Recently I have choreographed for a dance competition(ICATS) at my office. Also, I performed a dance in front of school kids for Fungama event organized by Empowering Social impact(ESI).

Marathon Runner:
I participate in all the Marathon that takes place in Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore and Salem. I not only participate, I encourage all my friends and family members to take part in Marathon and create awareness for the fitness. Few of my certificates.




The above things are very important to me and yes, if tomorrow, I come across any music. I will just grab and explore it.

Every individual has to be passionate about something to keep their life going.

Being multi-talented makes us more active. Research has also proved that chasing your passion will keep you live and boosts metabolism. It reduces your stress level and never let go down.

Chase Your Passion!!!You will love and enjoy the journey while chasing the dream. After all, Just Earning money and counting days is not life. It will change your life for sure.

I always wanted to taste all the flavors of my life. After all, towards the end of the life, we will be always proud for the path we traveled rather than the places we unexplored.

“This post is a part of #UseYourAnd activity at BlogAdda in association with Gillette Venus“.

THEME
Every woman has some things that she is passionate about, things that make her who she is. Tell us about the things that are important to you, the multitude of things that make you who you are, because you can’t be limited by one label.

Very inspiring blog award

14 January, 2015 is a fansatic day in my life. I got an appreaction from my onshore manager for a presentation and I was nominted for a very inspiring blog award by UK.

As a part of this Award rules, I need to state 7 things about myself and below are my answers:


I enjoy long walks in Nature and love to explore more places.I am the co-founder of  Bangalore Hikers - A non-profit volunteer trekking club. I have published a Novel Touch of Mist - a glitzy, hi-tech romantic love storySports makes me crazyI watch dance programs on TV and go weird on seeing it. I put my music on and go in my own world.If I like a person, I will do wonders to them. I had not discovered my passion yetNow, its time for me to Nominate 15 blogger for Very inspiring Blogger Award. Here are my nominations. 

Nachi DDestination InfinitySalman RavoofVaishnavie KrishnasamyBiswa PrakashNarasimha Sharma VeturiIndrani GhoseAkash GovindarajanVivek RastogiMalathy BadriSammya BrataANOOP YADAVRamaswamy V KrishnamurtiSripadi SravankumarSathya NarayananMy best wishes to the nominees..