Deepavali / Diwali 2012

It's gonna be our thala deepavali teeheee.... but not by years ! Brickfields is a wrong planning by a group of  wrong people ! From where did such crowd turned up ? Okay , as usual we had our very last minute shopping , glad that we bought good stuffs and watching the fireworks was a lot fun ! Murukku muchings and pleasant evening spent visiting Ramalingeswara temple. Deepavali this year was the best compared to last 4 years back in US. Ended up playing firecrackers with the neighbour kids :)

Birthday :)

Papparich @ Bangsar..................very disapponting but being with Bee is all about Birthdays !!! Your Halloween wife Loves you !

Vijayadasami Oonjal Ubhayam 2012

Mom's effort to make the pooja was appreciated by many. So proud of  you Amma, I wish I can be half  of  your strength, I can say I'm accomplished then.



Beautiful ambal decorated.



The fun thing to have all the girls doing Kummi for ambaal.

Certainly the happiest occassion for us as we get to meet a lot of  friends after a long time.

A date to remember lifetime............

Bee's back in KL, as usual the midnight flight is very tiring. It was almost 2.30 am by the time I picked up Bee from Sentral and we had to rush to the embassy row again by 9 am ! Certainly a date to remember to lifetime , beautiful morning seeing our Ganesha and then by 10.30 am we had our flight booked......oh must I say the Austin Chase coffee @ The Intermark was the stress relieving tonic !

JEALOUSY

Just had to share this !

Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. ~Jennifer James

Naya Abhinaya Workshop

It's such a blessing to meet the famous Pandhanallur guru Smt.Indira Rajan in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. An amazing experience, dance is like an ocean, the more we learn , we feel so little as there's a lot to be explored. Truly an eye opening night at the Global Indian School, Brickfields.

We had lots of  fun with one to one talk and there's really so much for me to learn. I have no idea how I can accomplish this but definitely will try!

Debate of the Year!

My bum's glued to the tv, just like any other person , the world is watching debate of the year. Yes, it's Obama - Romney talk time! I fell off  laughing and I seriously think that  Romney's fans are paid!

I'm concerned the direction that America has been taking in the last 4 years.What kind of America do you want? Romney does not have a clue about middle class or poor Americans. So, how can he make a change? We've seen an engineer who lost his job,foreclosed his home and currently working as a cook in a restaurant. Romney should stop joking, you've not seen the painful winter scene of a beautiful 5 year old child in front of Macy's door - selling chocolates for a $1 from Walmart to feed her family!

We need a change. Yes, I do understand the shout out on the immigrants in the US, just like the brain drain happened in the past and it's still happening. Wake up America, the economy is at an alarming rate.

I totally agree with Barbara Boxer's status update in FB -  Mitt Romney wants to go back to the future, offering America the same old disastrous trickle-down path that we cannot afford to take again !



Now, this is what I call a leader !

There has been a serious brain drain from Malaysia. Major pull factors have included better career opportunities abroad and compensation while major push factors included corruption, social inequality, and educational opportunities, and the government's Bumiputera affirmative action policies. As of 2011, Bernama has reported that there are a million talented Malaysians working overseas.Recently the brain drain has increased in pace: 305,000 Malaysians migrated overseas between March 2008 and August 2009 compared to 140,000 in 2007. Non-Bumiputeras particularly Malaysian Indian and Malaysian Chinese were over-represented in these statistics. Popular destinations included Singapore, Australia, the USA and the UK.  This has caused Malaysia's economic growth rate to fall to an average of 4.6% per annum in the 2000s compared to 7.2% in the 1990s.

A huge country like the United States require real talents. You need to have a better system to keep the right people. How Romney is going to justify the increased crime rates of illegal immigrants and assylum seekers in the country ? Do you think you make a fairer system but slashing out talented and skilled people out of America ? Raise your standards in immigration, set a qualification test to see the standard of your tax payers. It's totally unfair to neck out people out who've been paying higher taxes and made direct contribution to the SSN.

America should abolish their H1 visa rules , stop the lottery system. Fake H1's and fake experience people should be sent out. Dont throw your jobs offshore to pay less salary, stop cutting cost on education, without education where is the future going ???HMO's are killing people by rejecting the sick ones. Oh............I've been there , paid $2000 for a wisdom tooth extraction, imagine the middle class or poor Americans. Speak out for them, speak out for genuine immigrants and rights of women. Unless things are done, all the debate points will only remain as mere words.Talents play important roles in helping a country develop. The economy of a country that has a large number of world-class scientists and technicians can be more innovative than the others that don't.The more serious thing to happen is the brain waste! I've seen many IT guys from India who got their work permit end up working in the UK's postal departments!!! Not having a proper check and balance and a loop in the immigration system is not the fault of people. Today the UK wanted to neck out immigrants is ridiculous thing to do! Why did they allow the railway workers to settle down in the UK circa 1970's itself ?? You should have send them back then. Why do the government UKBA grants every fraud person to step in as a student through bogus colleges ? See..... people committed crime because you gave them the space to do so!

Fortunately, my vote will go in the 47% of  Barack Obama. Dear President, we want a better place and better life to live. We need a better America.  Go Obama !!!
 

Positive thoughts when I'm not well !

Stomach flu isn't fun. Can't really remember what really went wrong in my food intake last night but for sure I'm not going to sit and let my mind go blank! Something to think of, I'm already feeling better mentally! :)

Power of Yoga.

When I think of  the word "Yoga" , I could only visualize my MIND and BODY. Yoga is an ancient Indian art of well being derived from Yoga Sutra ( Patanjali ). Yoga is a form of mind, body and spiritual discipline. Many people tend to think that yoga is a form of meditation, yes, in my opinion I believe my body and mind need to meditate to combat daily stress and keep me focused.

The joy of yoga is undescribable. One should experience the positive side and feel the flow of oxygen in our blood streams. I just love the simple yoga stretches which helps to strengthen the entire body. After all , we certainly want to rejuvenate our body doing wanted and unwanted chores in our daily life meeting all sorts of people!

I had the chance of  re-starting my yoga routine after a couple of years of break in the US. I know I'm not good in managing my time back in US but I'm still going to try out how to manage my time and being well. I guess I'm lucky to talk to my yoga guru and I came to know about the yoga theraphy for cancer patients and survivors. The yoga theraphy also helps to stimulate the anti-cancer immune functions.

You can pass on the secrets of yoga theraphy to your loved ones and anyone who are called the warriors of life.

1. Alternative nostril breathing. Sit in a comfortable position. Close your eyes and be aware of  breath flowing through your nostrils. Place your right index and middle finger at the eyebrow centre. Close your right nostril with your thumb and inhale through your left nostril. Close your left nostril with your ring finger , release your thumb now and exhale through your right nostril Vice versa, repeat this upto 4 times on each side. Not only that this helps to prevent sinus congestions but this pranayama definitely helps to balance your mind and soothe anxiety.

2. Ardha chakrasana.This is called the half moon pose. This is done standing straight with feets slightly apart. Bend the body behind making it a perfect C - curve.

3. Pada Hastasana. Standing and bending forward knees.

4. Shashankasana. Shashank in itself is made up of two words, ‘shash’ meaning ‘hare’ and ‘ank’ meaning ‘lap’. The Shashankasana Pose is said to benefit the practitioner by helping in calming the nerves and providing a feeling of tranquility.

5. Ushtrasana. The camel pose - kneeling position where hands are taken on heels. One of the best asana for asthma patients.

6. Vajrasana. Sitting position with knees bent and palms on thighs , mainly the pranayama position.

Precaution

The people having stiff joints and whose movements have become difficult, should practice this Asana with a lot of care. Such persons should practice this Asana after getting the joints free and relaxed. If you have any doubts, consult your gp for clarity especially if you have low or high blood pressure, heart problems and asthma.

Ganesh Chathurthi Sep 19th, 2012

I got up so early , last night I slept off  when the clock  ticked off 3 am. I was exhausted after the shopping @ Little India. Speak about the crowd, I truly miss my childhood place , the people and the decent environment. Cissy helped me to carry the stuffs and by 10 pm we've reached home. Somehow I had the energy to clean up the altar and sort things out.

My second Ganesha

Today morning was quite challenging as cooking naivedhyams took all my time. By 10.35 am I started Ganesha and completed my 2nd Mangala Gauri vratham. I was just tired by noon.

The day's gonna be super hectic later as mom , boy , Sheg mams and myself  went to Masjid India :) Within half and hour boy dropped us off home and rushed for an interview By the time I came home, my first Ganesha wasn't in the right shape :(  No, I'm going to make another one. The white Ganesha , everyone at home just loved him as he looked more of  Bala Ganapathi.

Our head priest Ganesh on chariot, he missed Bee as he wanted Bee to sit on this chariot, Bee you've missed your golden chance! Hope we fulfill this another time soon.

My astonishingly beautiful Pillaiyar.

The evening scenario was - yes, he was offered job in Astro and then Neelacca came, I successfully gave the planned tamboolams and everyone including mom went to Ganesha temple.The final one, okay I am going to temple ( 9 ish then )....... I gave  Sarada's mom! Temple was so crowded and I received a cute yellow garland. Karpaga Pillayar looked astonishingly beautiful, grand. I cant stop admiring his beauty. Since the chariot left at 7.30 pm, I walked all by myself to meet mom at MGS school junction. To my surprise I met my schoolmate Kumoo family, Moorthy aunty and the whole bunch of known faces. We were too tired then. By 11.30 we came home and gosh...........I could feel my bones. End of the day, I'm happy that my vratham completed successfully....the joy of seeing Ganesha in KL, that's like after 5 years....the last chathurthi in 2006 , the day I stepped out of home recovering the viral fever, only to see Ganesha:)


The day is over, here I am writing up reminiscing good old memories of growing pains in Kuala Lumpur , the bitter sweet memories and the glorious days. I first danced at Pillaiyar temple when I was 5 ! We still have the right of first kids of  the temple! Bee just passed on a good news from Phoenix, Az.....:)) Well, lot more good things I'm awaiting for, the recent one is the farewell party of a green monster and yes, I will be bidding her a safe good bye! Thank you Pillaiyar, you've printed a bag of memories this year. Bless us for successful years ahead. Happy Birthday Ganapathi!!!