Bring a ‘SMILE’ on someone’s face this New year!!

As someone rightly said “there is no biggest joy than giving joy to others”, let’s start our New year by bringing SMILE on someone’s face and let them feel special!!

Some of the ways which I feel we can do to get that SMILE;

1. Appreciate your dear one’s and Thank them for all they have contributed in your life and feel it from your heart (I will fall short of my words expressing my feelings to all…)

2. Just come out of your comfort level and do live a simple life atleast for a day and you will realize how lucky you are and you will surely do something for people are deprived of basic things…..

3. I know we all are very busy in our lives…..but do spare out some time with family/friends and see the effect, you will fell livelier and enjoy life differently.

4. Always help people in need in any form….believe me in some way or other you will get goodness back in some form.

5. Donate your old clothes regularly…there are many people who can’t survive in this extreme winters…..donate books, help a needy child got to school, etc.

6. When people ask us for some donations why do we think so much even to shell off 100 bucks and we feel the same is very less when we are at CCD……?? So true right, this happens….

So….simply cut off your unnecessary expenses and donate generously, even a penny will help a needy accomplish his dreams/needs.

7. Never the less, don’t forget to SMILE…to get a beautiful SMILE on someone’s face.... :)

There are tons of ways, we could get a SMILE….these are few I felt like sharing. I am going to do my bit throughout……

Let it be clothes/books donations…thanks to my office and the NGO.

Let me share something….i am a volunteer at Great Foundation NGO and we teach Maths/English to the municipal school kids on Saturday mornings. I don’t feel like getting up so early that on a Saturday that too after a very tiring week, but it is the kid’s smiling faces, appreciations that give me the driving force…. :)

I can’t get this joy anywhere. I know I can’t please all the students…but when atleast a child thanks me for what I have taught them and they tell me “mam you teach really well and you will come next week rgt?” nothing can beat this…..i feel more motivated.

So, always Thank and appreciate people for what they have done and keep spreading the SMILE :)

Do you use Incongnito Mode?

Most of the crowd today can’t survive without browsing. It’s become a day to day affair for us. But how safe is you data when it comes to data security? Especially, when you are doing some online banking transactions or checking personal mails on some stranger’s PC.

If you are not aware, Google Chrome/Firefox has provided a new feature called “Incognito Window” for such private browsing. If you don’t want your browsing history to be traced or any cookie to be preserved, then you should use this feature to save your data.

Instructions to access them:

1. Open Google Chrome.

2. Click on this icon at the end of the address bar.

3. Select “New Incognito Window” from the options.

So simple rgt?? So, whenever you are browsing on stranger’s PC and don’t want to leave any traces or cookies then go incognito…J

Incognito mode is a read-only mode which is a secure mode and does not preserve any data on the disk, except the files downloaded.

PS- Have a safe browsing !!

Learn to face problems bravely

A story, I wanted to share;
There was a mango tree in a forest and kids used to take away the mango which were easily pluckable. After some days, the tree had no mangoes left at the extremes and hence no more kids now took the risk of climbing high up to get them.
One day, a kid passed by the tree and wanted to have the mangoes. He was hungry and did not think much & climbed the tree. He did not realize the risk involved, until he slipped off the branch and was hanging on the tree. He was very scared and started crying for help.

Then, there was a sadhu (priest) passing by at the same time. He saw this kid crying for help. He started laughing at the kid loudly for few minutes. The kid asked him to stop laughing and help him get down safely. The sadhu then started throwing stones on him, which made the kid more furious. The kid started moving his leg and tried gripping the adjacent branch which was stronger.
As the sadhu observed this, he left the place and the kid alone. The kid got so angry; He wanted to get down quickly and catch hold of the sadhu in order to know the reason behind his abrupt conduct.
The kid got down safely and got hold of the sadhu. Arrogantly, the kid questioned him, “Who the hell are you to laugh and throw stones on me? If you can’t help me, you have no rights to trouble me in such a situation.” Smiling back to the kid, the sadhu replied calmly, “There were 2 reasons for laughing at you; One, you were so greedy of having the mangoes, you did’nt even realize the risk involved in climbing the tree. There is no harm in taking risk, but you should be confident enough to get yourself out, if your encounter some problem instead of crying, that was my 2nd reason for laughing. “

The kid then realized his mistake and asked the sadhu the reason of throwing stones on him. The sadhu replied, “It is not possible for anyone to climb the tree to save you since, the branch you were hanging was weak and it would have not tolerated any more weight. Only you could save your life!”
“You would try moving only if you were made to move; hence I started throwing the stones on you. I saw that you were trying to catch hold of another stronger branch in order to get down. I left the place that moment, since I knew you would get down safely now.”

Moral of the story: Never risk your life to fulfill your greedy needs. What is the point of losing your life for things which you can’t enjoy?
Even if you take risks, be confident enough to face any further good/bad consequences. Don’t regret the decision taken, once you are in trouble.
Only we can get out of any problem. We have the capability, it only needs to be recognized and used appropriately. Remember, we would not get people like the “sadhu” to guide us always, we only need the guiding light which is always enlightening within us, just need to recognize it.

Creators are now, Slaves of Technology

What made me think of this??
I was in a mall; a 60+aged uncle orally calculated the amount of his bill and pointed out some billing mistake to the cashier. That reminded me of my father who would calculate quickly (he is not an engineer) and our aged group people rely on calculator to calculate simple figures.

I thought over it, what is that these aged group people so smarter than our generation. The basic difference was “technology”. Technology has reached its peak now. In those days, all calculation was done manually, human brain was thoroughly processed and that is the reason, they can suggest quick and simple solutions than we can.

We rely on reminders to remind us of important meetings, birthdays of very close friends…… , social networks to remember our friends, details ,etc…….it’s so sad that we rely so much on computers, mobiles instead of our “brains” which will never get lost and betray us, but still we love such materialistic things more than natural gifts…..:-(

We don’t even remember places names, directions to reach them; we trust online maps for every direction …..and many such examples to quote.

Humans have the most unbeatable tool “Brain” which is not been used by us to the fullest. These days, we have become machines/technology dependent species. Agreed, it is these human brains which are the creators of technology, but we have become slaves of them.

Our day starts and ends with technology, Alarms to wake up and music or any entertainment media to go back to bed. By relying on these machines, we stop training our minds, stop doing physical activities which in turn affects our health. By doing so, I believe we don’t have the ability to solve life’s problem unaided. Though these machines give us answers, we seem to be smarter, but in reality we are dumber. I bet if anything could give us best solutions than our “Brain”.

A Smartphone in hand does make a person smarter, he has the entire book of knowledge in his hands, but when that same machine becomes useless, he too becomes useless, handicapped. A simple example, a person parked his car in a huge parking lot, after some hours, when he returns to the place, he gets frustrated when he does not find his car, he wishes if he could find his car on Google search engine tool, this is the extent to which we have now got addicted to technology.

Though we are the creators of these machines, I believe it is we, who are pushing our selves more into darker side and complicating our lives……

This does not mean stop being technical, but we should not get addicted to it, learn to use ‘Brain’ intellectually and make ourselves Brain dependent rather than Technology dependent.

An Angel in my life

God cannot be with you always, so he made angels for everyone in life.
He made such beautiful, lovely Angel for us ….
She has played different roles in my life; I owe my life to her.
She bought me in this world and gave me a lovely life.
She is my first teacher who showed me good and bad in life.
She is my best criticizer, never praised me on face, but has the pride in her heart.
She believes in simplicity and always lived a simple life.
She says, if u cant do good to others, but never think bad for/about others,
She never pushed her feelings on to me, but her advices always help me take right decisions,
She became a friend as I and my sis grew, and now we are very good friends.
She knew all our wishes, feelings, but never expressed her wishes.
She is an angel in our life who forwards our wishes to god…

Thank you god for gifting us ‘Ma’.

Pune was like almost like a foreign place to her when she first came here after marriage.
Being a south Indian, she was unknown of hindi and marathi…She never complained about it, instead fought with the situation. She showed true love, by sacrificing her wishes, lived for her family. According to her, your work, family is god, just devote yourself to it, it like worshiping god. She says, dedicate your time, soul to the work you do, you would find god in that only, and that is true worship of god.

She has faced ups and downs strongly and believes that the more you are in pain, the more value you get in life, like ornaments are made after melting gold. A true artist doesn’t complain of shortage of resources, he will show his skill with the limited tools, only if he has the talent and the will to do it. My mom has got the best out of the few things she has got, whether that is cooking or any creative stuff she has done. She has taught us to look at people who are less fortunate than you and you would get the encouragement to fight any situation.


It is little easier to get praised from closed friends, relatives, but difficult to get praised from strangers. I feel very proud when, my friends, my dad’s and my sis’s friends praise her. One of the recent incidents to be mentioned, usually children encourage their parents to dare to do something dangerous ,like climbing dangerous peaks, but in kodaikanal, it was my mom who bravely did it and encouraged me, it was one of the most memorable moment for me. She got uncountable compliments in the trip for being so young, so brave, courageous, proud of you mom. The guide tells me “Your mom’s very brave and strong, Take care of her and keep her always happy.” When you see and hear such things, you get encouraged naturally and I feel lucky for that. She must have grown by age, but by heart she still very brave, strong and very young.

Mom, thank you for everything in life, I won’t be able to pay for that for sure.
We all really love you from our bottom of our hearts!
May you be as lively as you are forever, very young and beautiful!
May you live a healthy, happy life forever!

I dedicate this blog post to my sweet, loving mom on the Mother’s Day!
Love you Ma!!

Life: Treasure it for we get it only once

It is well said “Life is like an ice-cream, enjoy it before it melts.”
Many worry about their ice-cream, melting and don’t enjoy it, instead keep cribbing about being unlucky, and wish if I could get other person’s ice-cream. The grass seems to be always greener on the other end. We are never thankful for having an opportunity to enjoy it.
Why can’t we concentrate on our life and make it better than concentrating on others life and wish for more. We have started living others life….
Things which could be done by a simpler way, we opt to complicate it by blindly following others life. And blame them for things going wrong in our lives.
Some of the learning I would like to share:
• Life needs to be treasured, enjoy every moment as if it is the last moment of our life.
• Smile and appreciate good things around you.
• Never belittle others.
• Choose simpler ways of doing things.
• Spend time improving urself, than you will have no time to criticize.
Please add if you have something to add to it.

Rhyming words

I was going through my school magazines, its fun reading stuffs which we wrote those days and came across a poem written by me.
When I was in school, I was very much fascinated by these rhyming words, probably because the English poems rhymed….and felt inspiring.
I tried writing poems with rhyming words….
Have a look at the poem published in my school magazine:
Success
Success comes to those, who try for it,
It doesn’t come to those who pray for it.
Success comes to those, who go with the time,
It comes to those who try hard to shine,
Success doesn’t come to those who are lazy,
It doesn’t come to those who are money crazy.
It only comes to those who have a heart of winning spirit.

This inspires me to write some rhyming poems now…..but stuffs you write in your earlier age is not criticized much, as it would be criticized now…..