Life

Dream says atleast try !.. to me
Challenge says bringing dream to reality is me
Accepting challenges and playing it sportively is me
Yeh ! in any sport you win some, you lose some and at times even no results
I guess thats living.....

Recession Demands Caution

Recession, Economy downturn etc... are a curse for anybody. Especially for fresh international graduates it is very very devastating, and currently I am in that situation. Surviving in the continuous stress of looking for a career and that too with a piling debt is a mammoth task. While trying to manage this task, imagine yourself being a victim of city crimes. Certainly, its like someone piercing a thorn on your wound. There is a mysterious relationship between recession and a city crime rate. I am just sharing my experiences.

For four years of my PhD work, I was never a victim, but once I started looking for a career without any income during this recession time, I became a victim in the city of Los Angeles. I lost my iphone, it was a gift to me by my brother for my PhD completion. The way I lost is very funny, it taught me not be helpful all the time. It happened in a bus stop during christams time, I was waiting for my bus with a laptop bag while listening to songs through my iphone. A black guy, looks like a high school passed out, approached me and requested me for using my phone to call his brother. I asked him to tell the number, he told some number, I dialed those number and gave it to him. He acted like as if he is going to talk and suddenly changed his look into staring and sped away running with my i-phone. I chased for a few steps and then suddenly remembered my Laptop bag, so I quit chasing and turned back to take care of my laptop bag. That's it my i-phone is lost ..I cant do anything..just cancelled my phone service and made a police complaint.. end of the story ..no feedback so for on that iphone. I lost a cherished gift !!

In my next incident, it was about my first love in the form of car. I was living in SFO in a gated community. Once my car was parked in the same place for many days . One bad day the apartment owner called us and told that somebody broke into my car and took the audio system. Initially I didn't worried that much, but once i saw the damage happened to my car I was shattered. It seems that car license plate from Louisiana coupled with parking at the same place for so many days might have been the invitation for that incident. Due to lack of money I didn't changed my license plate from Louisiana to California. Currently I am in the process of changing the license plate for the safety of my car.

Even in a steady economy internationals are more vulnerable to crime. What happened to me are petty things when compared to incidents happened to Indian PhD students in LSU, Baton rouge and things happening in Australia. So I believe and urge all internationals to be cautious all the time and these recession times demands more than caution.

Aham Brahmasmi...Peyar kaaranam

Naane Kadavul - Advaitam
Naanum Kadavul - Dvaitam
Nambiyadhu Kadavul-Illaiyendru
Nambavaippathu Kaivalyam-Nirvana
Nambuvathu Kaalattai-Maarikkonde irukkum

Nalin Kanth - Naan Kadavul

Nalin-thamarai, Kanth - kadavul (Hindi/Sanskritha porul)
Thamaraiyil veetrirukkum kadavul - Brahman, yenil
Aham Brahmasmi

Just a thought.....

காலத்தின் மார்ப்பு

Just tried something new in tamil, was in the mind and lingering for few days. Just penned it today

அலைகல் கரையை முத்தமிட்டால் அது இயர்கை
அலைகல் கரையை மூச்சிதி்னர கட்டிஅனைத்தால் அது செயர்க்கையா ?

தென்ரல் மலரை வருடுவது இயர்கை
தென்ரல் மலரை வாட்டுவது செயர்க்கையா ?

வானம் பொழிகிரது பூமி விலைகிரது அது இயர்கை
வானம் பொழிந்து பூமியின் பாகம் குரைந்தால் அது செயர்க்கையா ?

காலங்கல் தனித்து வந்தால் அது இயர்கை
காலங்கல் இனைந்து வந்தால் அது செயர்க்கையா ?

செயர்க்கை மனிதனின் செயல் என்ரால்
அச்செயல் மனிதனின் இயர்கை அன்ரோ !



In english letters but meant in tamil ..

Alaigal karaiyai muthhamittal athu iyarkai

Alaigal karaiyai mootchi thinara katti anaitthal athu seyarkkaya ?

Thendral malarai varuduvathu iyarkai

Thendral malarai vaattuvadhu seyarkkaya ?

Vaanam Pozhigarathu Bhoomi vialaigirathu athu iyarkai

Vaanam Pozhinthu Bhoomiyin paagam kurainthal athu seyarkkaya ?

Kaalangal thanithhu vanthal athu iyarkai

Kallangal inainthu vanthal athu seyarkkaya ?

Seyarkkai manithanin seyal endral

accheyal manithanin iyarkkai andro

BONE EATER

I started missing home food when I was doing my B.Tech in CIT (till now I am missing it). During those times, many of my hostel mates including me used to envy another friend (we call him as vadai) who also stays in our hostel. Just imagine when we were missing mothers home made food, this guy still has his mothers hand made lunch in Coimbatore, whereas his mom is in Chennai. Still wondering how it is possible. It's because his father serves as a pilot in Indian airlines, so whenever he flies to coimbatore, he brings a hot pack food for him. We always enjoy his mother food, especially non-vegetarian food, she cooks great. One of the reason for writing this blog is because of him. After a very very long time, I got in touch with him. I wanna a share one of his poem, to my surprise my name was there..

Cognition In A College Mess

Money is a strange glass that defines
every man’s vision is what went in

munching drumsticks with friends, at my
college mess. Ruby-ringed Mathew bit

the main meat off his drumstick, sided the rest,
pushed back and exalted “Wow! I am done”.

“Never waste food”, I retold what my father
ingrained in a bourgeois me, and showed

how much meat still resides at the corners,
how to relish those; to make the clean bone.

Nalin smiled at us, chewed, swallowed
the fragile bones and repeated my words.

Pradeep Dhavakumar

Following is the link

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cognition-in-a-college-mess/


If you guys have time, kindly go through his other poems also, they are finely penned......

Thats the way I eat non-veg, no leftovers of the traces of meat or bones. Is eating meat is good for human health or not is a great research topic, as several societies has different and contradicting views. To know the truth by myself, I experimented with myself by controlling my diet. In my family we have a rich meat diet, so right from my younger days I used to eat meat, I changed my diet to strictly to no meat and no egg diet over a period of time for several years.
1 year - No meat No egg, next
1 year - Included Meat, next
3 year - No meat No egg, next
1 year - Included meat, next
3 year - No meat No egg, next
1 year - Included meat, next
1 year - No meat but included egg, next
3 year - Started eating all kinds of meat

Nearly after more than a decade of experimenting, what I felt is, It doesn't matter as long as you eat food and satisfy your appetite. It seems that on extreme conditions of food availability, our brain develops some circuits to make certain food delicious or bland based upon the demands placed by our physiology for those nutrients which are available in that food. So if we are provided with only vegetable sources or we make strong decisions to be on strict vegetarian diet then we will explore many vegetarian options to satisfy all the physiological demands for the nutrients. And if you are on meat diet then the exploration of vegetarian options is limited as the meat satisfies most of the physiological nutrient demands. I believe this might be one of the reason for a limited vegetarian options in american foods. More meat, some bread, then limited common vegetables like lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, kidney beans, carrot and broccoli. For the past four months, my diet includes only american food (mostly fast food), no spices at all. So nowadays even when I go to Americanised Indian restaurant, though the tase of the food their never gets the indian feel, currently I feel it is delicious.
Apart from the above mentioned observance, which are similar to a discovery channel study. I also felt a little bit change in my psychological approach. Whenever iam in vegetarian diet, i was calm and composed and in other case I was little bit aggressive. I am not sure whether this is due to diet or my will power to focus and control myself to strict vergetarian diet all those times. Because people who meditate also has calm and composed approach due to their high focus and control among themselves. If you guys have some inputs, kindly let me know. I started it as simple blogging, but somehow diggressed into a form of research article...hmm what to do!!!!