{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.

{mosimage}I don’t know when I started feeling it, but know how I started doing so. Please don’t laugh…. I started it after seeing the Malayalam movie “Life is Beautiful” where Mohanlal keeps saying this through out the movie and follows 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 AffairsExtra 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.

Life after breakupsWhen 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.

{mosimage}It started as a normal and a happy year as usual but I realised that it is going to be tortuous at the end of January itself. I was mentally prepared to become bit stronger. Coimbatore had made me very softer and vulnerable by keeping me happy always. I had already written that how much I loved being in Coimbatore. I still remember the moments I visited Thirumurthy Hills last time. I was praying that I must come there more often. I was offered this job in April mid and I enjoyed that summer to the most extent. All the kids were at our home for almost a month. Day by day the number started increasing so as their mischief. I was praying that the tickets must not come soon. At last the tickets came for 20th May and the kids also left back to home after the vacation. The scenario shifted to Dubai.

CoimbatoreCoimbatore - A place that was, is and will always be close to my heart. I really don't know when I took it there. Coimbatore was introduced to me as my cousin's place where we used to go in annual vacations. Earlier I preferred just because we can watch so much of movies there. I was always a rebel just because I felt we kids were given secondary treatment while my cousin Prakash was their darling,who walked away with all his wishes fulfilled at our cost. but that didn't deter me from falling in love with Coimbatore.