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கவிதை by சிவக்குமார் சூலூர்

A Guest Post by சிவக்குமார் சூலூர்குழந்தை கவிதை:

பூக்கள் அழகென்று கவிதை எழுதினேன் ; இன்று அப்பூக்களே தோற்றது நீ பூத்த புன்னகையால்

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நீ உறங்கும் அழகினிலே நான் உறங்க மறந்தேன்

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கலப்படமில்லா உன் சிரிப்பினிலே நான் கரைந்து போனேன்

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உன்னை பற்றி கவிதை எழுத நானும் குழந்தையாகிறேன்

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தொட்டிலில் உறங்கும் எனது கவிதை நீ

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வீட்டினுள் வானவில் உன் சிரப்பினிலே

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தலைகுனிந்தேன் உன்னை முத்தமிட தலைநிமிர்ந்தேன் உன் தந்தையாக

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கவிதை எழுத மனமில்லை கவிதையாய் நீ இருக்க.

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Music The soul

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.

Music is not only an entertainment, it helps in coming out from stress and depression.  When people hear the word “Music” they feel excited, some dance to the tune, some relax their mind. But for Rekha music helped her in finding the soul mate. This story is about Rekha who found her soul mate through music.

“Hey come fast dear, Only 10 minutes to go.“ Rekha friend Avantika shouted on phone
“I am struck in traffic. It will take another 30 minutes” Rekha was about to cry.
Her train was about to leave in another 10 minutes.  Bangalore traffic is worse and it’s worsen when you have to go to a particular place at right time. She hurried the auto driver as much as she could. But as expected, she missed her train. Her friends suggested to take the next train which was scheduled in another 1 hour. She took the train ticket for the next train and came to the platform in which the train was expected to arrive. Travelling in general compartment is the worst thing that could happen in your life that too when your journey is long.

Since her earlier plan was to travel along with her friends, she did not to take books to read in the journey. But her day must be lucky today. She got a seat in the general compartment and that too next to a handsome guy. He was busy listening to songs and completely ignored her. Her heart wanted to initiate a conversation to him. But she stopped herself from doing so. After 3 stations, the train stopped and the guy wants to buy a water bottle. If he gets up from the seat, the seat will be grabbed by someone. So he had no other option, other than informing Rekha to look after the seat for him. Rekha did not expect this twist now. She got excited and decided to initiate the conversation once he is back.
After 5 minutes, he returned with water bottles and few snacks.
“Thanks” He replied with a cute smile.
“That’s okay” She smiled and turned back towards the window. Rekha expected him to initiate a conversation, but she felt it would sound desperate. In order to avoid him, she plugged the earphones into her ears to listen to the music.
After 5 minutes, she heard a male voice. She stopped the music player and turned to realize that the cute guy was offering her snacks. She said no but the conversation continued. They introduced themselves and they got well each other. It was a journey of 10 hours, hence they discussed everything and finally the topic came to music. He was mentioning about a song that Rekha was not aware of. To make her listen, he took his mobile and played the song in his mobile by plugging one ear phone in hers and another one in his ears. After listening to the smooth melody of the song, they both replayed again and again. After the Journey, they exchanged the numbers and they stayed as a friend for 3 years and one final day, Rekha expressed her interest to marry him to which he agreed. They happily married and lived happily.

#Colgate360GoldMornings

How to turn good mornings in to gold mornings
There is nothing as good as a fresh start. Early morning plays a vital role for the rest of the day. The day started with laziness and tiredness would definitely reflect in the rest of the day and will definitely make the day a dull day. Whereas morning which are usually started with fresh mood reflects a positive vibration throughout the day.

Just one week before, I had an interview scheduled and with fear in mind, I slept the previous night. The next day, i.e. the day I had interview, I woke up with fear and the day was spoiled completely. I had to miss my bus, catch an auto and messed up the interview.

No one wish or greet you saying, “Have a Bad Morning.” Did someone?
Everybody greet you with a smile followed by "Have a good day"

Today morning, the bright sun peeped through the window and made my room a little orange color with the reflection of the sun rays. Bright colors or the Gold colors make a person’s mood better and I felt rejuvenated. With a smile in a face, I sent a message to all my friends stating, "Have a Gold morning"
Everybody replied back saying Gold!? That’s wonderful Thank you and so on.
Making the morning a good one is more important and above all making a gold morning is even important. Well, what’s the difference between good and gold? Chocolate is good, Jogging is good, but GOLD!? its special. :) Gold is something more than good and after all who does not like the day to shine like gold.

Here are the 2 tips to change the good morning to gold morning.

Start your day with #Colgate360GoldMornings. Brush your teeth with Colgate 360 Charcoal gold Toothbrush and with Colgate tooth paste. It is actively designed in such a way that it cleans not only the teeth and tongue, but it also washes the germs, bacterial from the gums and cheeks. I personally felt the freshness after brushing with Colgate 360 Charcoal gold Toothbrush. Wish you friends "Gold Morning. Have a gold day" Instead of "Good Morning. Have a good day" Trust me, its makes wonders not only in your life, but also in your friends life. That replacement of one letter “O” to “L” makes lots of magic.

Book Review - The Bestseller She Wrote by Ravi Subramanian

The Bestseller She Wrote by Ravi SubramanianSeems like it’s a book review week for me. I have completed 3 novels this week. :)

The Bestseller She Wrote by Ravi Subramanian. The author who is known for his thriller novel tries out a completely different genre - romance genre. 
Its usual tendency to get settled with a specific genre when an author has given a massive hits in that genre. Ravi Subramanian is good at writing thriller stories based on banking domain. His novels are known for the way he deals suspense and bring the banking industry inside the novel. Not even a moment, a reader would feel bored or confused with the way he describes about the banking industry. That’s the plus of him. All of his earlier novels made sure the readers do not keep the book down.

This time, he tries out a complete different genre. "Love and Romance" Did he succeed in the journey? Did he really grip the reader and fulfill the expectation of his readers?

"The Bestseller She Wrote - “Love, Betrayal and Redemption” If this novel was written by some new author whom I never come across, I am damn sure that I would have not chosen this book for reading. Because the title is not that catchy. But the book cover is attractive.

The title is different, and on reading the blurb one could easily guess that the protagonist is going to write a novel with the help of Aditya - the lead character and her book is gonna hit the book store and hit the top selling list. Aditya is a successful author and a successful professional. He has a great family, lovable son, trust able friends and huge fans. His life is cool and lives a life one would long for. But the roads are not smooth till the end of the journey right? He meets Shreya at one of the talks at Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru. She is from a small town and wanted to prove that people from Small town background can achieve big too. Their relationship starts with a quarrel, ego hurt. But as the story goes on, Aditya was impressed with Shreya. Shreya on the other hand wish to write a best selling author. I loved the chemistry between Aditya and Sanjay. The climax is unexpected.The first half of the book is literally very boring with mediocre and usual scenes. There is nothing new in it. No twists and a plain story.

Ravi Subramanian has mentioned in one of his interview that it took 9 months(longer than any of his other novels) to complete this novel. For nine months effort, I am little disappointed with this story.

Who will enjoy reading this book?
All the bloggers and the writers aspiring to publish a novel will enjoy reading the book.

What is good in this book and why should one read the book?
Few dialog or the writing are impressive For the beautiful friendship between Aditya and Sanjay (I meant the first half of the novel)To get inspiration from Aditya’s character. It inspires to be ambitious in both the fields. Either being a successful professional banking career or the writing career. His role is impressive. Book Details
Paperback: 392 pages
Publisher: Westland (19 October 2015)
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Book Review - Voice Mates by Anamika Mishra

Book Review - Voice Mates by Anamika Mishra
Just completed the novel “Voice Mates” by Anamika Mishra and straight away writing the review. Because I am extremely impressed with the novel and could not restrict myself from writing a review about the novel. In one word, It’s an excellent read.

If you love the singing reality shows, this book is a wonderful read. Even if you don’t love singing or music, still you will love this novel. Because it has an excellent, cute love story.

These days Bloggers are highly talented. I personally feel, a novel written by bloggers have more creative and interesting stuffs then the novels written by the top selling authors. The Bloggers cum authors write only want is needed. They don’t write for the sake of extending a normal story to 300 pages or more. The novel Voice mates is an excellent example to it.

Voice mates is really an easy and must read book. It has just 200 pages with extremely simple English. Even a person with little knowledge on English can easily understand.

The novel starts with the protagonist Tulip enthusiastically waiting to know the winners of a top reality show “Voice mates season 4”. Her anticipation, despair and tension for the results makes us to feel her love toward the contest not as a viewer but a passionate person who wants to participate in the show and win the contest. Then comes her parents, who hates the reality shows and yells at Tulip when she overreacts for the contest results. Her parents wants her to be an academic topper. Her parents are often rude and hardly speaks to her. How she overcomes her parents and achieves her dreams is the plot.

One will love this novel for Sam, the hero of the story. He is matured, easy-going, confident and professional. A guy whom a girl would look for. His characterization is making us to fall in love with him and long for a soul-mate like him.

Since it’s a singing contest, there are lot of songs mentioned in the novel. To be frank, I never heard the songs mentioned in the novel. But, the songs chosen at each round and the lyrics of the songs are beautiful. It made me to google the song, download and listen to it. While listening, it made me to imagine Sam and Tulip singing on the stage. That’s the success of the author.

The conversation that happen when Tulip feels that Sam might have realized her feelings for him was absolutely fantastic. One will really love that conversation that happens at the backyard garden.

I have not read Anamika’s first novel “Too hard to Handle”. But definitely after reading this novel, I am eager to read her first novel. Usually, I don't read a novel second time, but this book is tempting to read second time.

Haaaah, I forgot, the book cover is awesome!? Isn't? Soul-mate, college mate, school mate, coffee mate, cab mate sounds good. And now, the Voice mate also sounds good and amazing.

Book Links Amazon Kindle Google Play

Book Review : Waves in the sky by Rakhi Jayashankar

There is nothing ecstatic as getting a chance to watch a premiere show of a movie or read a novel before it’s released. Last week I got a chance to read a novel before it was released.

A novel in my hand before it was launched to the world. Hooray…☻ ☻ 
The novel titled “Waves in the sky” by Rakhi Jayashankar.  She is a budding writer, blogger, critic whose petals sprouted and bend down in a dance of imaginations.
There would be always a freshness and unique factor in the novel of debut authors. Their stories would really take us for a surprise. And if the writer is a blogger, it’s an added advantage. It would be definitely a worth read.

A success of book depends on how well the author hooks the reader from the beginning and this book has done enough justice to it. Right from the Author's note, she has made sure that she shouldn't sound weary throughout the novel.

Due to loads of work during the weekdays, I decided to open the book during the weekend. But I stumbled across the prologue yesterday, then I could not keep the novel down. I tell you, there are lots of disadvantages when you read a novel like this. You forget your dinner, you forgot to go loo and you forget to sleep.  Sometimes, I feel a novel has to be bitter boring at least at few places. Only then, you tend to take a break or sleep. :P
Coming to the plot...
Spoilers a head...
The novel starts with an anguish mode, but as you read the second line the mind boils down to a morality that her anger has a meaning. As you complete the first paragraph you salute and admire the confidence of the character Swathy. An interesting prologue that motivates to read the novel further. Charu's character was portrayed well. Her compassion towards her friends, her emotions towards her busy bee parents was impressive. There is an interesting reason behind the names of the canaries, read to novel to explore it :) Each canary is unique and well portrayed. Avantika who carefully chooses her friends based on "not good looking criteria" so that the attention of the boys would be on her. Similarly the story travels through the different characters of six Canaries Charu, Ananya, Neha, Avantika, Raihana, Yami and finally the dots were connected well.

While reading the Author's note, "I started this book as a simple contemporary fiction. After writing the first two chapters, someone held my hands and made me write more and more "  I reminisced how "Touch of Mist" metamorphosed from an article to a novel. Because without my readers motivation an article about "No Suicide thoughts" must have not mutated into a short story. They didn't stop there. They held my hands and encouraged me to convert into a novel.

Uff. .. Back to Review, Below are the pros and cons of Waves in the sky from my perspective.

Pros:
The novel is of less than 200 pages and it’s an easy read.The novel is written in simple English with good usage of vocabulary. Cons:
Few places it’s little filmy. Like Neha bagging first prize in all the music competitions (Light Music, Carnatic music, Western Music, Group song, Patriotic Group song, and National Anthem). When the novel actually takes you back to the school days and as we are travelling with one of those characters, these incidents like beyond the bounds of possibility gives a bump.
But on the other note, this filmy scenes are absolutely fine and okay. After all, it is a work of fiction and few things needs to be exaggerated to make the story interesting.

Over all, it’s a good read with lots of twist and interesting scenes..

Bangalore #madeofgreat

Bangalore #madeofgreatThere could be enormous reason to fall in love with a person or with a place. Sometimes, there might be absolutely no reason to fall in love.  I always felt travel gives me lot of happiness and peace. A kind of immense satisfaction comes, when we travel or live in our favorite city. Favorite place depends on person and how emotionally we are connected to place.
For me, my favorite city is always the Garden City Bangalore. Within Just 30 minutes you could find Cubbon Park and Lalbagh Botanical Garden which is full of plants and trees that are spread around 100 acres of area. Not only that, even a small street would have a small park with a jogging track.
About Nice Toll (Source - News)Another reason, Bangalore has lots of weekend gateways. My friends and I stick to one point. We work hard in the weekdays and bid bye to city during the weekends. We travel outside the city skirts and connect to the nature. It rejuvenate and makes the following week very colorful and refreshing. I would proudly say that the work stress or pressure won’t affect us. Because, Monday and Tuesday mornings are filled with the energy received from the nature and Thursday and Fridays we wait for the weekend zealously and explore the nature.

I am lucky enough to have a set of friends who are nature lovers and well as travel lovers and riders. Who said Women cannot have fun and Women are not daring enough to take risk and enjoy the adventure? We are the best examples.
Roads are important and it plays a vital role in making a person’s trip smooth and memorable. The Nice road (as the name suggest it’s one of the nice road in Karnataka), that connects the Bangalore and Mysore is one of the best place to drive and connect.
For people like me who experience the freaking Bangalore traffic during the weekdays, this nice road comes as a soothing effect. After all, who doesn’t love to drive on a road that has no annoying colorful signals that stops you everywhere and escape the horrible speed hump which gives you bungee jumping effect?

#madeofgreat One would absolutely love the design of the road. Currently it’s a four lane but it was designed to expand to six lanes in the future. This road was also designed to connect the Pune Highway and Hosur highways.
Drive, Design and connect

Here are the top 3 reasons for Bangalore to be a #madeofgreat place to Drive, Design and connect:
One State. Many Worlds. “One State. Many Worlds” It’s rightly quoted by Karnataka Tourism. I am not sure about the other cities in Karnataka. But Bangalore is the best example for it. I could see people in almost all the states and you get a chance to connect and explore their culture and language.Garden City: The city is surrounded by Greenery. Tough these days it’s occupied with lots of IT hubs and giant buildings there are still few places with trees on either side of the road and plants at the middle of the road.Climate - I am basically from Tamil Nadu where the sun showers with lot of heat. For me, this climate is a heavenPicture Source - Tata Moter's Zica

Sugarfree Vanilla Cake

"Happy Birthday Appa" My dad wished my grandfather and touched his feet for his blessings. "Happy birthday Tatta (grandpa in Tamil)" my sister and I conveyed our wishes to me."Only wishes? No cake cutting" My grandpa asked curiously. He is still young at heart and it’s true that people turn into child after 70's. He was adamant in cutting a cake"Did you forget that you have diabetics? We are more concerned about your health. Cutting the cake would tempt you to taste the cake and it would spoil your health" my dad said in a firm voice but with love. On hearing my dad's statement, my grandpa face dwindled to disappointment. All of a sudden Sugar Free Natura's Ad flashed my mind. "Dad who said grandpa should not eat sweets and cut the cake?"I suggested the idea of preparing the cake by replacing the sugar with Sugar Free Natura. Everyone voted my idea and we prepared a delicious Vanilla cake within one hour. 
My grandpa face lit up with happiness. He cut the cake like a child and indulged happily. 
He said, this was the best birthday he ever had. Below is the recipe for Sugarfree Natura's Vanilla Cake. Ingredients for Sugarfree Natura's Vanilla Cake:Butter or Fermented cream or milk,Eggs Sugar Free Natura ( A Low calorie Sugar Substitute)Maida flourCocoa powderBaking soda and Baking PowdervanillaMilkTuity Fruity Yummy Yummy Mixture is ready :)


Getting Baked :) 



How to make Sugarfree Natura's Vanilla Cake:

Sugarfree Natura's Vanilla Cake..Turn on the oven and pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.Mix Maida flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and beat well to a thick pasteTake a bowl and batter the butter and egg. Now add vanilla powder and beat well. Add Natura's Sugarfree and mix well. Beat well for about 10 minutes. Sprinkle the colorful tuity fruity on the mixture. Keep the mixture in oven and bake it for about 30 minutes.Now delicious Sugarfree Natura's Vanilla Cake is ready :)

Pampers Premium care pants

I was watching Football match on TV at home and was suddenly interrupted my by wife with list of items to be purchased from the shop.
"You gotta be kidding", I laughed.
"No, I am Not" My wife said in a serious tone.
There was a silence in the air.
"You have to get this stuff today. No other option" She broke the silence
“It sounds crazy. It’s not gonna happen." I said firmly and tried to defend myself.
"Come, on. You are the father of the kid." My wife said and kicked me out of the house.
I again scanned the list of items that my wife wrote it on a piece of paper to be purchased.
"Item Number 3.  Diapers” My breath came out in shallow gasps as my eyes scanned the item again.
Oh man, how am I going to get this from the shop?  Won’t the hot lady in the shop find out that I have a kid? My thoughts were flattering in my mind and my phone vibrated. It was a call from my wife.
"It’s Pampers Diapers. For heaven sake, don’t change the brand.” She warned me again
“Yeah okieeeee.” I said and cut the call.
When it comes to kid, extra steps has to be taken while purchasing the items. The same brand has to be used from the start. Changing to other brands of Shampoo, soap, diapers would lead to rashes or cause allergic to kids.
When it comes to Diapers, I always rely on Pampers. Right from the baby birth we trust and use only the P&G products. All my relatives use this brand for their children for several years. Instead of trying new brands, I felt it was a wise decision to stick to tried and tested one. Ie Pampers.
I went to the shop and requested for a Pampers diaper.
“Pampers Premium care pants, or Pampers active baby pants or Pampers Baby dry pants" asked the guy in the shop.
I was confused altogether and was about to call my wife. The shopkeeper then stopped me and explained about the Pampers Premium care pants. Pampers brings you the softest ever Pampers Premium Care Pants. Its cotton-like softness is #SoftestForBabySkin and allows it to breathe, thus keeping baby’s skin soft and healthy, and your baby happy.
In order to keep the baby skin soft and to avoid the baby from rashes and irritation, Pampers have included 5 star skin care protection in Pampers Premium Care Diapers.

Pampers Premium care pants
Up-to 12 hour dryness - Dryness even when used for up to 12 hours. All around softness-  I t’s extremely gentle and helps to maintain the baby skin.  Wetness indicator – This is an excellent innovation from Pampers. An indicator, that indicates when to change the diaper for the baby.  All around Fit – Its available in different sizes. Small, medium, larger.etc. From new born to the age of four.  Lightweight and breathable materia l – Air flow is needed to keep the baby skin soft. And this new Pampers Premium care pants comes with breathable material. 
I thanked the shopkeeper for elaborating me broadly and purchased 2 packs of Pampers Premium care pants and returned home. I feel jealous of this generation who gets innovative products to keep them safe, protective and relaxed.

This post is a part of the Pampers #SoftestForBabySkin activity at BlogAdda. Thanks to my uncle for sharing this story.

How to get #SoftestForBabySkin naturally

How to get #SoftestForBabySkin naturallyI live in Bangalore, Karnataka with my friends due to work nature. I stay far away from my home. My sister family stays in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu and from last 5 months, I was absconding every weekend. I was not available in Bangalore during the weekend.. Reason?

 Few months before, a new tiny angel arrived to our family. OMG. It changed my world completely. Its making me crazy with its naughty smile.

I eagerly wait for the weekend and fly to Coimbatore every weekend to see my sister’s new born. Watching the Cute baby sleep and playing releases all the stress and tension. Not only me, everyone loves to watch a baby sleeping, shouting, and crying. Each and every little thing about a baby is cute.

TamilNadu is known for its humidity and hot weather, throughout all the three seasons. Especially during the month of May and June, one could experience scorching weather. Even an elder person would not be able to tolerate the roasting heat of the sun. How could a new-born manage the burning heat?

The baby skin would be so sensitive to heat than the elders. Our tiny baby was exposed to irritations, sun burn and dry patches. Sometimes, the baby would cry out loud due to the heat. Keeping the baby under air-conditioned room is not advisable. The cooling environment caused by air conditioner would cause the skin to lose moisture and again the skin would result in dryness.

How to meet #SoftestForBabySkin naturally. Below are the tips:
Change the diaper as soon as it wet.Babies doesn’t like when the Pampers are wet. Also wetness would cause itching. So, change the diaper as soon as its wet. Pampers brings you the softest ever Pampers Premium Care Pants. Its cotton-like softness is #SoftestForBabySkin and allows it to breathe, thus keeping baby’s skin soft and healthy, and your baby happy.
Massage with Olive Oil:Massage the baby skin with Virgin Olive oil. Massaging the baby with oil helps the skin to get enough moisturizer and protects the skin from dryness. Before bathing the baby, gently massage the baby with olive oil and leave it for 10 minutes.
Don’t expose the baby under the sun:Use only the proposed Products:Consult with the doctor on the products to be used. Use only the baby shampoo, soap and detergents.
Cotton Clothes:Always choose the cotton clothes and change them often. Wash the clothes with baby Laundry Detergent liquids. This baby detergents has no harmful and reactive chemicals and nand is suggested by the doctors. It's absolutely safe for little ones

Babies are the gifts to our family. It’s our duty to protect the loved ones with utmost care. Achieving Soft skin makes baby happy as well. Afterall, who does not love that soft skin

This post is a part of the Pampers #SoftestForBabySkin activity at BlogAdda