Forwards?! they actually take us backwards in our faith

Please pass this sms, prayer, picture, story... within the next hour to 8, 12, eight to the power of 12 people...or more?!
Let's see if Satan can stop this!
"Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven." Mt 10:32 so dont be ashamed to circulate Jesus among your friends... sort of threatening after effects if you dont do it!

Now most of us have received such emails and sms s and forwarded it many times

Saint Teresa of Child Jesus's Prayer..

Mother Teresa started this novena...

The Apparition of O.L.Fatima...
and many more...
Sometimes the content is too good to resist. So i forward it by editing the above said things. Because I beleive in God and all His goodness. He is not a God of Tit for Tat... if u dont acknowledge me i will do the same.... rubbish.

The others are if you forward this something good/miracle will happen today, you will get financial help, your loved one will come back to you, blah blah... come on everyday God is working a miracle in our life. Are our eyes open to see it and give thanks (now its a post on its own). The very fact that we wake up everyday (gift of life) is a miracle! And Our God is Jehovah Jireh, He supplies our needs. "Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" Mt 6:26 I dont need to forward this message inorder to get what i want!

This whole concept of forward and get something has a bad foundation. Its like do-it-yourself-kit/toy, where God (His grace) is left out of the equation. Christianity is not about doing something to merit his love or blessing or a place in heaven for eternity. Its a relationship based on decision to love God, His ways, His people and His creation. Forwards - do they really take u forward?

Ammachi...you will be fondly remembered

Grandmother. what does it bring to our minds? Lots of love, care and delicious food and of course home remedy for everything from dry coughs in the night to diabetes control ! Yes this post is in loving memory of my ammatchi, who passed away a year ago due to renal failure. She was 89.

As we celebrate her first year death anniversary, I am reminiscencing all the goodness she had bestowed on me. Of course after my wedding my ammachi was away and didnt really have good rapport for some reason. Even till day i feel as if she lives in one of my mama's place.

That apart, She is Maria Selvam, the last of the nine children in her family of whom many died, She used to speak very high of her brother who brought her up and educated her. She was a trained teacher and very good in tailoring and embroidery. She taught me some embroidery and crochet too. She worked as a teacher and earned Rs. 20 as her salary, all this pre-independence period! She also used to tell stories of War period when cereals and pulses became scarce and how rava idli came into existence.

Some of her remedies are hand crushed black pepper to be kept in the throat and drink hot water for dry coughs. Bengal gram when dried and powdered can be used for bathing its as good as using butter on your skin she says, she used to have bitter gourd soup without salt for diabetes control. She also taught me how to clean fish and make fish fry even when i was 12 yrs old and said it was good for the brain.

She was very prayerful and did the rosary everyday without fail. My mum and ammachi together instilled in me the praying habit, though i dont say novena after novena like them. She used to write letters (it was the only source of communication as every house hold did not have a landline) from Coimbatore especially on my birthdays and would also send some money. She encouraged me a lot, for my 10th birthday she wrote that she heard in news that the then President of India Mr. R. Venkataraman also celebrated his birthday the same day and wished that i may also do well like him. Most of all she was a strong person as she raised 6 children and got them married as my thatha died early. I learnt to be resilient like her.

I will always miss you ammachi, May you rest in the good Lord' everlasting peace.

Imitations Beware!!

Imitation means "That which is made or produced as a copy, that which is made to resemble something else". Ok i must confess it is featuring my lil baby, or shud i say she inspired this post.
1. She no longer wants to drink from her sipper but from a tumbler just like us.
2. She walks in from outside, removes her shoes and leaves them in the shoe rack following her dad.
3. wants to see herself in the mirror when dressed up just like her mom
4. does not want to sit in your lap instead wants to sit in her baby chair like we sit in our sofa
5. Wants to sing even though she knows no tune nor words when we sing along with the car radio

and the likes which are common in the households with toddlers, ask them they will tell stories... now again to the post, Children learn from imitating the elders at home and its perfectly normal infact part of their development. So beware all of us, whether be it parents or uncles or aunts or even neighbours , we have to be extra careful in all that we say and do for they are in the parrot mode of learning. They cant differentiate and say this is good and this bad. They dont even know what is good and bad. They are like a sponge absorbing everything they come in contact with.

Now the second beware of imitation(notice there are two exclamatory marks in the title) now all of us would have done imitation as part of our learning process but have we progressed or move to the next level? or are we even aware of it!? yeah its INNOVATION. Yes the art of doing something differently from the usual if not totally new or out of the box! If we did we would nt be bombarded with re make movies and re mixed classic songs or even scene lifting (from international movies) song lifting (hit songs from other languages) or even BGM lifting (latest Background score of YUDHAM SEI is from the movie The Village!) These include copying TRP increasing gameshows and reality shows from other channels!

Even though some are aware of this next level, for fear of venturing out in uncharted waters or being ridiculed or have the idea but do not have the required skill set or simply being lazy do not try it. On the contrast those who made it big where all innovators, so while we grow up emotionally from dependency to independency to interdependency, i hope we intectually grow from imitation to innovation and also make sure our children do the same!

The good news is its never too late to start, begin today even if its the dosa you make or the kolam you put, remember little drops of water make a mighty ocean :)

Im no longer Trinity....

Heyya folks its been two full years since i last wrote on this blog.... hopefully i will come with a bang this time! so the very first post will be with a change in my name. I will be hence forth called Divia in the bloggers space instead of my earlier name Trinty as i have named my little daughter the same. So now you would have guessed the reason for my sabatical. Yeah im still tied up with my baby but will find time to blog. Also presenting to you my babe Trinity Yazhini Clement. Will catch yall soon

Happy Valentines Day Sweetheart

This post is dedicated for my valentine.


* The baby smile you have

* The care you show when im ill

* The way you make up after a fight

* When you made time to be with me even though it was difficult with hectic schedules

* The times you cooked for me

* Your passion for singing

* Your gentle Kiss and bone breaking hug

* The freedom you give me

* The numerous night-outs and ice-creams

* All the time you left for office trips (when you come back, the love only grows)

* The 'n' no. of calls and sms' which say that you love me.....

All these and many more and in no particular order have made our togetherness wonderful and cherishable.


HAPPY VALENTINES DAY Sweetheart

TAGGED

1. If your Lover betrayed you, what would your reaction be?

I'd be badly upset

2.If you have one dream which could come true, it would be?

Finish my thesis before June and get a job as a lecturer

3.Which one do you prefer-ice-cream or chocolate?

Chocolate flavoured ice cream.

4.What would you do with a billion dollars?

I would nt do anything as long as it is not earned by me

5.Can you fall in love with your best friend?

By all means

6.Who is more blessed-loving someone or being loved by someone?

Loving someone… Its better to give than receive

7.How long would you wait for someone you love?

I will not wait for someone to love me.

8.If the person you like is secretly attached, what would you do?

Cant say

9.If you could root for one social cause, what would it be?

Freedom of expression, especially the opnions and controversies abt what and how a girl or woman should wear. The stupid logic behind he did this bcos they way she dresses up should be eradicated.

10.What takes you down fastest?

When my loved ones dont understand me

11.What according to you is blogger in denial?

I dont understand

12.What’s your fear?

Lizards my all time fear factor.

13.Your opinion of the persons who tagged you with this?

My beloved

14.Would you be single & rich or married & poor?

Whats the point in being rich and nobody with you to spend it for. So i'd like to change the equation and make it Married & Rich.

15.What is the first thing you do when you wake up?

nothing consistent. probably rush to the loo before he gets to it.

16.If you fall in love with two people simultaneously, whom would you pick?

How can you do that? It only is attraction and not love!

17.Would you give all in a relationship?

YES

18.What’s eating you now?

Tummy cramps and indigestion

19.Do you prefer being single or in a relationship?

Of course in a Relationship

20.What is your occupation?

@ home for now

21.What color are your socks right now?

I have only a pair of socks and its white. Im not wearing them rite now

22.What are you listening to right now?

some blaring horns from the road

23.What was the last thing you ate?

Curd rice and bindi fry

24.Can you drive stick shift?

Yup, not tried auto

25.Last person you spoke to on the phone?

My hubby enquiring if he had lunch

26.Do you like the person who sent this to you?

Of course

27.How old are you today?

27

28.What is your favorite sport to watch?

Figure skating

29.What are your favorite drinks?

Cooled pot water

30.Have you ever dyed your hair?

No

31.Favorite Food?

Nothing particular, but Idlis my all time favourite

32.What is the last movie you watched?

Mounam samatham

33.Favorite day of the year?

Christmas

34.How do you vent anger?

Depends on who Im angry with

35.What was your favorite toy as a child?

Dont remember

36.What is your favorite Season?

Summer bcoz of summer hols in school and college days.. now anything is fine

37.Do you want your friends to email you back?

I think thats why you write in the first place

38.When was the last time you cried?

Yday when i could not apply for canara bank po post

39.What is on the floor of your closet?

X-rays, scans and other medical reports and medical bills for claim!

40.Who is the friend you have the longest you are sending to?

41.What did you do last night?

Had Orange Ice Candy

42.Plain, Cheese or Spicy hamburger?

Spicy…tho i dont like ham-burger pronounce it like Pink Panther

43.Favorite dog breed?

Labradors and mongrels

44.Favorite day of the week?

Wednesday (wow its today)

45.How many states have you lived in?

Tamilnadu. Home sweet Home

46.Diamonds or Pearls?

Pearls

47.What is your wish for the new year?

That there may be peace everywhere and in all homes

48.New year resolution?

Have nt made one.

All who care to take this tag!

Poem with a difference

Ode on a Grecian Urn

- John Keats

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,

Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,

Sylvan historian, who canst thou express

A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:

What leaf-fring'd legend haunt about thy shape

Of deities or mortals, or of both,

In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?

What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?

What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?

What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard

Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;

Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,

Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:

Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave

Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;

Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss,

Though winning near the goal - yet, do not grieve;

She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,

For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed

Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu;

And, happy melodist, unwearied,

For ever piping songs for ever new;

More happy love! more happy, happy love!

For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd,

For ever panting, and for ever young;

All breathing human passion far above,

That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,

A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.

Who are these coming to the sacrifice?

To what green altar, O mysterious priest,

Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,

And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?

What little town by river or sea shore,

Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,

Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?

And, little town, thy streets for evermore

Will silent be; and not a soul to tell

Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.

O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede

Of marble men and maidens overwrought,

With forest branches and the trodden weed;

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought

As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!

When old age shall this generation waste,

Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe

Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

One of the peoms i fell in love with. The discussions of this poem is given here.

Special ?! birthday

What do birthdays bring to our minds... celebration?

How do i celebrate? a big question on my mind. 4th Dec was my birthday and invariably everyone who wished me on the phone asked the single question which challenged me...

So, whats special today?

How do i answer such a general question, what do i make out from this question, are they asking about the special food, special dress, special gift, special outing, or are they talking about the special day, what is this SPECIAL??? anyways enough of my ranting....

How do i tell these people that im always special to atleast a few people !!! my god firstly (as my blogs name suggest), my parents, my hubby, my sis and friends

And indeed it was special for me, knowing that im remembered and cared for by people near and far.

The Day i lost my mobile

The miserable day i lost my mobile.... sounds like a movie name eh? Anyways on Nov 19th My buddies at office and i went to watch 'Varanam Ayiram' in INOX. When the movie was getting over i took my mobile out of my bag to text my hubby to pick me up... and left it in my lap and when the movie got over when i got up i could feel my phone falling down and immediately started searching for it and to my disbelief i could not find it! wont you be able to find something you dropped by mistake in its place... no it was not there... and the one who flicked it even switched it off...



Now something about my phone i bought it after so much proding from my then fiance and now hubby, as he wanted to talk to me... till then i never wanted to have a phone! so it happened that in Aug 2006 i bought the nokia 1110, a very basic phone with polyphonic ringtones and white display, the supposed advantages! It has faced several hardships and survived all the torments in my hands. Bravo my dear phone! It has acheived around 5000 spoken hours or maybe more... has fallen down countless no. of times... thrown at the velocity of light when im angry with my hubby.. when he does not pick my call, or cuts the call abruptly.... so many times i have left it behind in eat outs and shops only to go back and find it untouched and the reason for it was none of the numbers in the keypad are visible and the display are all scratched... it looks totally washed out and exhausted!

But somebody who came to INOX!? was in desperate need a God forsaken phone like this one
minus the numbers and a lot of scratches!!!

I will miss you my phone...

BRUTALITY UNLEASHED in LAW COLLEGE!!!!

I dont need to brief you about this gory incident that happened two days ago. My blood froze when i saw how the third year students of the AMBEDKAR?! LAW COLLEGE were beaten to death... yes three are very serious and on life support!
The reason for the flair up is supposed to be the name of the college!?!... some pamphlet was printed for culturals with the college' name as Chennai Law college instead of Ambedkar Law college! We really dont know what these injured students said or did to the ones who attacked them... what ever they did, it doesnt warrant these senior students to become so cruel...
For a quick peek http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/78072/chennai-cops-fail-to-stop-students-clash-suspended.html I ve always heard that people who study in the Law College are pucca rowdies... that is one reason why my dad refused for me to study there. I am glad i didnt study there.

Now the discussion or my venting out starts here

* the police were on lookers.. the had given a dumb reason that till they receive a complaint they would not take action.... will the policemen standing there do nothing if the beaten were one of their children? I dont know why its becoming a trend these days.. this was the same case with Sr. Meena who was raped in the communal riot in Orissa.. they were on-lookers (its a post on its own)

* Some policemen were transfered and some suspended... how does it help... now all the opposition parties are blaming the police, as if they started the clash... My concern is that the story is taking a turn and the focus is moving from the Cold blooded Students to the on-looking policemen!

* Even if they had to wait for complaint to take action and order a lathi charge or tear gas.... they could have simply pulled the injured away from the "gundas students" he was lying outside the gate... this is called Presence of mind!!!

* Now the students - they are studying Law!? meaning they have to be the protectors of the Law and Justice... they should have taken it to court and dealt with the matter... no, they are not bothered about what they study.. because what they study and what they do are total opposites!!! Even people in the army shoot their enemies and thats about it, this was slowly bringing death in the most excruciating manner. My husband and I are undergoing treatment for disc slip and neck strain respectively, both are very painful and cant imagine how these injured will live the rest of their lives! They will never be normal again!

* Such students dont derserve education and that to in the field of Law... they should be Debarred from the College and University. It might help many deserving students.

* Now a big mob attacked, only 9 people were arrested, what happened to the rest? the footage must help to identify the rest of the rouges!

Until a few days ago i was thinking Chennai was comparibly a safe place to live and thankfully its where i lived and continue to live... but this episode in particular is frightening because first of all we have wild animals on the prowl and secondly the police will not help!!!
God save this country