Another source of energy?

I read in an article about pedal powered generators, one can use it to generate electicity. Just a wild thought If we can make a path of 10KM or so, where people can walk jog etc and can generate electricity through that? Is it possible? Then one can do it in every apartment and individual houses too if that works...

Is it doable?, I heard we can do it in treadmills and cycle in gym. That can be used for home use in a smaller way. Always drops makes the ocean...Electricity generation from a speed breaker was done too.

May be someone is already half way through it, soon it might happen. We have to find and start using other sources of energy too, so there is a chance :)

Suicidal thoughts....

I just couldn't digest people committing suicide by hanging themselves or cutting their hands, or jumping from cliffs especially from a nice view point...how can they do it when there are plenty of simple options? I don't want to elaborate it anyway.

Why one want to commit suicide?

- 10th, 12th fail?
- love failure?
- not able to succeed in life or move forward?
- depressed and feeling lonely?

there might be plenty of valid reasons, I do respect that. But is it the only way to escape from that particular problem. When one can read, write, walk, talk it means they are able to see, they have hands, legs. There are lot of unfortunate people who don't have those, can't we help them and forget about our misfortune?

- Visually challenged people need people to read, record and write for them
- Physically challenged people need help
- Autistic children and their family need love and support
- Old people need someone to do their day to day routine,

Many people/animals/ environment around us need support in many ways.

and the list is endless.

May be it is easy to say than be in that situation. But it is doable, just give it a thought?
Somewhere I read, "committing suicide is just moving your problem from you to the loved ones around you. And that is the only reason I am alive today"...It is true, is it not?...The one who did it, will be gone, but the people around them will suffer forever.....

..But if you still want to do it, don't waste your organs, you can donate and make someone else see, live and achieve things. It is cruel to write like this but people who have all organs intact are the ones who commit suicide, It is rare to hear a physically, mentally challenged person committing suicide?

5 things to do for the society - an hour weekly?

1. Plant and water trees, plants at home and near our home for the area atleast one. My neighbour planted around 300 trees and he water them regularly. Atleast I could see in my road he has planted on both sides plants and he water them. The mountain near our home people regularly on saturday and sunday water the plants. When they can take out sometime why cant a housewife or everyone of us? UNLESS SOMEONE LIKE YOU CARES A WHOLE AWFUL LOT, NOTHING IS GOING TO GET BETTER.  We might end up creating artificial towns and cities :( as shown in the movies. Ok that is little too much ;)

2. Reduce and Recycle. Separating dry and wet at home/source level before disposing it.

3. We went to the public library in Chengalpattu children's section, it has decent collection of books but awful arrangement. Cant blame them, British council library in Pune is no less then I guess its of no use to think about a public library. Whole collection of Enid blyton, children encyclopedia, Harry potter collection, Tulika books are kept here and there not in order. One has to go through everything to select book. Why cant we volunteer our children and involve ourself in organizing a library? is it not feasible if there is one closeby? It took less than half hour to organize one shelf.

4. Never throwing garbage on the road ever.

5. Note to self: Stop writing about all these and start doing something about it :p

Feminist view of Kannagi statue

I was listening to "take it easy policy" song...In the song there is a line, we have Kannagi statue but not Seetha's (Kannagi silai than ingundu seethaiku kallal silaiyethu?) True Kannagi burnt Madurai for her husband. Seetha proved herself pure by going in to the fire. In a Malechaunistic society obviously they will order and make a statue of Kannagi only :p. She burnt Madhurai along with innocent kids and good human beings???
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Another story Shiva's, Shiva will cut Ganesha's head in anger! What kind of god will kill a little boy out of sheer anger and just to prove his power? if there is any other inner meaning i really would like to know. In most of the stories bad guys get to see the god easily. Kamsa, Hiranya Kasibu....all Rakshashas they get killed by the god, whether killed or blessed they get to see the God easily. Good people has to do thapas for years like Pagiratha? Why?

Indra's story if i start I will go nuts..he is the one who made mistake and punishment is to Agalikai? and many more story can be read in Vinayagar puranam we just started and put a full stop immediately after few pages.
Swami vivekananda seems to be reasonable but Is bramacharya or all those things taught to  him can only be followed by Vivekananda cant it be followed by women, again women is degraded in the story here and there, I guess it was written by a guy. Whether in Mahabharata/Ramayana any story women's condition is pathetic, what they did is not even close to the punishment they got and in India woman have curfew, girl children are still raped in buses. Pathetic. I dont even know whether to continue saying sare jagan se aacha...Really?

Success vs failure

Yesterday my friend posted a quote in FB about success and failure, it goes something like this, "To attain success one has to go through failure, many people didnt realize that and once they fail in something they shut themself off and develop fear to try something new or avoid taking risks". True failure is the stepping stone to success.

Immediate thought that crossed my mind is "If one has to treat success and failure in the same way, what is the point of keep on running behind and taking risks" I guess that is a nice way to escape from things and convince oneself from doing nothing, to become a lazy person. We Indians read too much of these Bhagavat gita (I know only few quotes here and there) and other things and get contented with what we have so new inventions and technologies are happening somewhere else where they constantly want to improve everything?

Especially another thing to feel proud to be an indian woman is here a married woman has the luxury to sit at home and enjoy life doing nothing except taking care of the family. But for a guy become contented, is it possible to survive in this fast world? Atleast we do need the basic necessities to be fulfilled.

RT Phase I

I feel success is very subjective, for some it is having a collection of jewelleries, for some it is accumulating and flaunting their wealth, for some it is looking young, for some it is being healthy and fit, for some it is having peaceful life, for some it is swimming and crossing 100/200 miles without giving up and so on. Success or goal what one feels might not sound interesting to another, that is what make each human being unique and beautiful. Is it not?

But I can be contented and say what is the point of running behing something nonstop
as I am not the sole breadwinner of my family ;) :P. Men in India poor souls I guess they cant think that way, have to work, earn and may be can get early retirement and enjoy! till then it is run run as fast as you can is it not?

Proud to be born as a woman!

I used to envy guys standing in a corner and talking for hours!
I used to envy men who used to backpack and tour around the world alone!
I used to envy their freedom in many ways!
I used to envy their friendship!
I used to envy how they not get in to silly fights!

But nowadays everytime I see a tiny little baby,
I felt so proud for being a woman!

Arithu arithu manudarai pirathal arithu!
Athilum kun kurudu indri pirathal arithu!
Athanilum mangaiyarai pirapatharke mathavam seithida vendumama! So True!


Be ........lated Happy womens day hee hee to all the great women out there!


Random thought phase1:

Though it is embarrasing to write about it, recently in our apartment we faced this problem, people threw it in the toilet I guess wrapped it in plastic covers!!!. So gobbling that embarresment I am writing about it.

How to dispose sanitary napkins outside:
1. Always carry a plastic cover as you carry a sanitary napkin.

2. If you are outside  when you dispose it, if you dont have plastic cover, wrap it in any newspaper, wastepaper then throw it in the trash.

How to dispose it at home:

1. Place the sanitary pad into its plastic wrapper if you have saved it. Otherwise, wrap it several times with toilet paper.

2. Put the sanitary pad into the trash. It's helpful to have a small wastebasket in your bathroom for this purpose. 

 

We all know it, but still when I use public toilets I could see the pads lying there just like that, and thats even more horrible than using our (indian) public toilets. And in our apartment we faced plumbing problem with 2 weeks blockages and flooding. When we asked the reason,  person who did the cleaning was shy enough and said he found plastic bags and sanitary napkin in the toilet pipe, and society people made a notice to inform the owners and tenants. I should say most and all of the people in my apartment are educated. So if it is the case in a place like this no wonder our public toilets are horrible. So when we convey awareness about sanitary napkins in schools I guess we should add this point too, how to dispose it without disgusting other women. Still it needs lots of guts to throw it like that! bravo to them :P

 

Random thought Phase II

Is it possible to demand our government atleast to keep the toilets in tourist attractions clean? Is it possible to hand it to private companies and if they didnt do their job well sue them off? I am absolutely upset, another thing I envy about men, they dont need toilets but for women it is horrible to go out and find the toilets in non usable conditions with no water. ugh One simple example: Pune Sinhagad fort toilet

Laughing therapy

Recent cinthol ad, the conversation between Journalist daughter in law and doctor mother in law in a positive

Rags

way robbed my heart, we need more ads this way than the usual irritating making fun of the relationships. Nowadays even the serials are better thanks to my parents and inlaws, I hate to see them but no way I could escape coz I could hear it from anywhere. But really some of the serials are really good especially the dubbed ones, as the costume is different than the usual its more fun to watch. Having said that, I learnt few hindi words because of the serial Tu tu main main, hillarious serial and coz of darling Raageshwari, the lively bubbly singer. Golden days :p

Does it happen in any of the house? "Newspaper I dont know what it has, why dont you finish your bath and

breakfast and can read it all day, its not going to go anywhere", the usual dialogue from mom whenever dad is immersed in the newspaper or on a weekend if the kid is watching TV first you both go, take bath have your breakfast/lunch depending on the time..in a high irritated voice. And the answer will be one can hear a mumbled "mmm"..it has thousands of meaning, why dont you leave me alone, its a weekend, I want to relax and not do the routine. But thats what makes the family fun.

We had a jokes day on Sunday and it turned out to be really fun. We remembered some forgotten jokes though it was a repetition, after a long time hearing it made us laugh a lot.

Samples:
Teacher to a student: Tell me do you know where is Everest?
Student:  I dont know.
Teacher: Stand up on the bench
Student: Will I be able to see then?

There was big accident in a railway station, around 20 people got killed in an accident and only one escaped and he was standing in a platform, so the police rushed to the spot and enquired what happened to the person.
He will say, it was because of the wrong announcement, they said the train will come on platform no 2, and everyone got frightened and jumped from platform no 2 to the railway track.
Police asked him then how come you were so clever and got escaped from this?
The guy said I came to commit suicide so I decided to stay on the platform but the train came on the railway track??????
 
Doctor was demonstrating how hazardous alcohol is to one's body
Doctor: Do you even know what alcohol does to your body. Let me demonstrate. He took an empty cup and in one he put a worm and poured alcohol in to it, worm died of alcolhol and told them did you see what happened?

One of the patient: Yes alcohol kills worms in the body.
Doctor: ??????

Blonde got a economy ticket to london and she went and seated in first class, didnt budge to move from there when the flight attentent told her its not her seat. So the flight attendent after persuading her a long time gave up and went to the pilot and told him. He said ok I will take care. He went straight to the blonde and told her something, she said thank you and went and sat on the economy class happily.
Flight attendent was confused he asked the pilot what did you say, in no time you were able to make her leave and get seated in economy class.
Pilot said, I told her the first class wont go to london, only economy class will reach london on time. ;)

Have a great day!