{mosimage}Sometimes back in our office, this was a topic for discussion. The wide spread conclusion that came as the meaning for this phrase was - to be idle and leave everything to fate. I tend to disagree this interpretation. My take on this statement is that you should accept the way things happen rather than expecting it to have happened otherwise. This is the context what I took this statement and following it eversince I read it somewhere for the first time.

There goes a saying that there is a very thin red line between love and hate and at any moment the line can be crossed anyway. Once again I am drawing references from the incidents from my personal circle as well as my own experiences. When the heart wants, it just wants. No reasons or rationalisation needed. It just makes all efforts relentlessly to achieve what it wants. More far the subject runs away, more intense the passion grows. And finally reaches a thresh hold point where things cannot be proceeded further, the thin red line appears. All the love turns into hatred. As intense the love was the hatred also gains the same intensity.

{mosimage}Yesterday while having my lunch I was going through previous day's "Dina Thanthi" paper. There was an advt for a Madhavan movie "Arya". Intha heroine-ai engo paathirukome... Aiyyada! Ithu "Swapnakoodu" Bhavana alle.... 2 - 3 varushathukku munnadi naan enakku Malayala figure-nga mattum thaan pudikkumnu sonnappo ellam nakkala sirichanga.... ippo engengu kaaninum Malayala figure mayamada... (My)Meera, Asin, Nayantara, Gopika, Bhavana, Nandhana.... Malayalathile innum yaar miccham irukkangannu theriyalaiye.... munnadi ellam Tamil padamnaale malayala figurenga ellam pammum... (Manju Warrier, Samyukta Varma, Kavya Madhavan ellam Tamil padathule nadikka matteinnu pidivatham pidichavanga)... aana ippo ellam "thuninju" oru mudivoda thaan varuthunga. Malayalathile intha poonaiyum paal kudikkumannu kekkura maathiri iruntha Nayantara, Palakkad station thaandina udane dress ellam kazhatti pottudra pola...... Pora pokka paathaa enakku "exclusivity" kidaikka naan Bhojpuri, Konkani language figure-ingalai thaan thedanum pola. En pozhappu ippadi aayiducchu...

{mosimage}Sometimes back I was talking to my colleague whose daughter I like the most. She is such a lovely shy kid. My colleague told that he has enrolled his daughter in UCMAS and vocal training class. He said that she is not going for painting and swimming classes and she is strictly saying that she will go to two classes only at a time. While talking about the current UCMAS trend and other things talks turned towards the extra curricular activities of todays children. My opinion was that current day children are being stretched beyond their limits and "grow" ahead of their ages. Then came the counter arguement that children should be adapted to the competitive environment. But my opinion was that competition exists in the minds of the parents only. I seriously feel that the current generation of kids are denied the pleasure of being innocent and enjoy their childhood.

{mosimage}After coming to UAE and missing the Indian festivals despite the presence of Indian diaspora over here, I realised that all our festivals were not for just sake of having some good time or showing off the wealth. For most of us in India, festivals means special programmes in TV, new movies and debates. Thats theday! But every festival has its own deep explanations and valid reasons in the pretext of mythological stories, which in due course of time was overshadowed by the religion and traditions. Since this article is written on the Diwali day, let us start with it.

1. Are you tensed in the office?
Say “Life is Beautiful…” you will find a relief and things will go in your satisfaction.

2.Are you feeling lonely?
Think “Life is Beautiful…” and suddenly you’ll find the whole world is for you.

{mosimage}Blogs - It is the most happening buzzword among the netizens and many portals and blog services are making trips and turns to cash in on this phenomenon. But do you know that there is no word called "blog" if you search in Oxford dictionary. Then how come a non-entity became something that rocks the world all of a sudden? In fact, the word "Blog" is derived from "WeB Log", which in actual means logging of activities on the web. For computer illiterates, the logging activity means putting down the sequence of actions in chronological order. However blogs even though meaning putting down your thoughts and ideas time to time, not necessarily falls under the category of chronological fashion.

{mosimage}I feel the daddies are the poorest souls in the world whose intentions are being misunderstood most of the times. I am not writing about my case alone but the general observations I have made from my friends and acquaintances. Once I asked my favourite kid friend Viggi, whom he likes most appa or amma. But he was smart to say "enakku amma pidikkum appa pidikkum". If I asked whom you like amma or appa, he'd say "enakku appa pidikkum amma pidikkum". Notice the order in question and answers, but it is an embarrassing question for everybody to choose between father or mother. But at the age of 12, if you ask a boy or girl, they'll answer that I am close to my mother / father. Further of this article is from the boys' point of view only, so girls can come up with their side of story.

Extra marital affairs (EMA) can have ghastly effect on your marriage. It can just destroy the sanctity of your relation with your spouse. Sometimes the result of an affair can be repaired but lots of times they leave you nowhere. How do affairs happen? Studies show that extra marital affair is not a result of one particular reason. There are many of them, which contribute. The biggest of the reason is that one wants to escape distress. A spouse might be highly disappointed, sad, and lonely. There also might be feelings of distress in a marriage.

When we examine relationships and their developments little do we talk about the emotional and psychological changes that occur when two people end an emotionally intimate relationship. For any relationship to last life long it is entirely on the individual. The moment the thought of a break up comes to mind the relation will fade away in no time. 'To hurt or be hurt' is the usual saying where break-ups are concerned, I rather feel it should go more along the lines of 'hurt yourself and the one you love' because few can walk away from any long term relationship and not be hurt, even where you instigated the break up, you are still going to have to grieve for the loss of that part of your life.