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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Hit like if ...
Recently I have felt like being bombarded by my friends with fb posts such as
Hit share if You are a Hindu.
Hit share if Sai baba is part of your family.
Hit like if You are a Brahmin/Kshatriya/Jain/.... Lets find out how many Brahmin/Kshatriya/Jain/... on Facebook.
So creating a general formula
Hit like/share if You *
where
* = are a Hindu/ ...
are a follower of Sai baba/ Hanuman ...
are a Brahmin/ Kshatriya/ Jain...
love your mom (So If I don't share.I don't love my mom.)
Being an optimist I am, I conclude:- Big organizations don't like to reveal their Corporate Social Responsibility Schemes. It makes them look "less evil".
And the topper
So all one has to do is Share fb posts and wait for good things to happen. And Here I thought I have to work hard and devote limited time to Facebook to get work done.
Apparently I am a soulless Satan to my friends, If I don't like and share such fb posts.
So the next time one of my friends shares such an fb post I am thinking of sharing this with him.
Hit share if You are a Hindu.
Hit share if Sai baba is part of your family.
Hit like if You are a Brahmin/Kshatriya/Jain/.... Lets find out how many Brahmin/Kshatriya/Jain/... on Facebook.
So creating a general formula
Hit like/share if You *
where
* = are a Hindu/ ...
are a follower of Sai baba/ Hanuman ...
are a Brahmin/ Kshatriya/ Jain...
love your mom (So If I don't share.I don't love my mom.)
respect your dad (again
If I don't share.I don't respect my dad. )
save this child's life (Apparently Facebook donates when we make posts.And I thought It earns!)I even tried to ask my mate, if he could share the source of information for such large-hearted gesture.So that I could contact them for our Social work donation.Only to be met with a studied silence (or more like "I would not dignify myquestion with a response").Being an optimist I am, I conclude:- Big organizations don't like to reveal their Corporate Social Responsibility Schemes. It makes them look "less evil".
And the topper
So all one has to do is Share fb posts and wait for good things to happen. And Here I thought I have to work hard and devote limited time to Facebook to get work done.
Apparently I am a soulless Satan to my friends, If I don't like and share such fb posts.
So the next time one of my friends shares such an fb post I am thinking of sharing this with him.
Friday, September 21, 2012
The tyranny of the kindergarten
When my elder daughter was a KG student, most often she would come home with a complaint against the teachers. I considered the complaints an expression of the ire of a truant student. When she began to say that she was often and again caned by the mathematics teacher or the EVS teacher (Yes, it is environmental science. The children are not allowed to see the environment, but they are taught EVS!) I let the Principal know in writing that I did not agree with corporal punishment meted out to children, in general, and I particularly asked to exempt my child from mental harassment and corporal punishment. And I warned the Principal that if any teacher caned my daughter again, I would not send her to the school in future.
I did not need to wait for long. One day she came home crying and told me that she was chided and caned for not knowing the opposite of carnivorous.
A hardly five-year-old child was punished mentally and physically for not learning the antonym of carnivorous!
I met the Principal and asked to call the EVS teacher. “Madam,” I asked the teacher when she came, “At what age have you been able to know the meanings of carnivorous and herbivorous?”
The Principal interfered: “But you have sent your child here not to learn the meaning of the words at the age when the teachers learnt them.”
“OK, but what right do you have to cane my child?”
“We cane the students who don't do their homework.”
“Do you know the meaning of the word kindergarten?”
“No, and I don't need to.”
“You do need to know. The German word kindergarten means a garden of flowers. But your school seems to be a park of carnivorous people who prey on the little flowers. Henceforth my daughter is not studying in this school.”
As I sat in the bus I was thinking about who was to blame: the teacher who inflicted corporal punishment on my child or the Principal or I myself?
Why did I send my child to school even before she celebrated her 4th birthday? How could a little child learn the meaning of words like carnivorous and their opposites? Children should be allowed to observe their environment, to see the plants, the seeds, the trees, the flowers, the birds, squirrels, butterflies and should be allowed to play with Nature. Only then can they develop their own vocabulary, only then can they understand what is meant by herbivorous and what its opposite is. Only then can they grow up into healthy and dutiful individuals.
Before reaching home, I came to the conclusion that I was the culprit. I pushed my child into the arena of ‘education business', into the hands of those people for whom an educational institution is just a commercial enterprise. I decided not to send my yet-to-be-born younger one to any school before she or he celebrates the fifth birthday. When I discussed the matter with my wife, she agreed with me.
The second child is celebrating her fifth birthday in the coming March. She knows the names of almost all birds, flowers, trees, plants and animals. She knows that the stars are bigger suns; she knows that plants and trees also do have life and some of them sleep at night; but she has not been to school yet. Everybody asks why we haven't sent her to school yet and their expression is like that we have committed a horrendous crime. They tell us that we can't get her admission in any “good” school now without her having completed LKG and UKG.
A good school means any school that is not a government-owned one. I tell them that I am sending her to the GUPS in which I studied. Another horrendous crime! Can your child have standard education from such schools? Only the children of the uneducated and the poor are there in such schools now. Won't the association with the “low class” children affect the culture of your child?
Of course, she can have standard education, because in such schools there are teachers who got the job with their ability, not on the strength of their pocket. As far as culture is concerned, is the ‘culture' of self-promotion the children who are sent to the so-called ‘standard' schools attain praiseworthy? I think it is the root cause of many an evil that haunts our nation today. And I have studied in government schools and I don't think that the standard of my education is inferior to that of the products of any one of the ‘standard' schools.
Then comes the general remark — Nowadays nobody (except of course the poor) sends their children to Malayalam medium schools. My answer — Isn't Malayalam your mother tongue and do you know what Jawaharlal Nehru says in the Glimpses of World History about one's own language?
“The only way for a people to grow, for their children to learn, is through their own language.”
By SUKUMARAN C. V. (lscvsuku@gmail.com)
Some thoughts:
This article highlights What is teaching? Is it teaching kids to be ruthlessly competitive OR Is it giving your child an opportunity to enjoy this world and realize his potential.
Personally, I had the pleasure of being taught by caring teachers, who were out to make honest and intelligent men/women and not just number-crunching, fact spewing machines.
When parents teach their kids to be ruthlessly competitive.They should remember- They will grow old and their kids would be just go-getters .It is anybody's guess, What they will do then!
I did not need to wait for long. One day she came home crying and told me that she was chided and caned for not knowing the opposite of carnivorous.
A hardly five-year-old child was punished mentally and physically for not learning the antonym of carnivorous!
I met the Principal and asked to call the EVS teacher. “Madam,” I asked the teacher when she came, “At what age have you been able to know the meanings of carnivorous and herbivorous?”
The Principal interfered: “But you have sent your child here not to learn the meaning of the words at the age when the teachers learnt them.”
“OK, but what right do you have to cane my child?”
“We cane the students who don't do their homework.”
“Do you know the meaning of the word kindergarten?”
“No, and I don't need to.”
“You do need to know. The German word kindergarten means a garden of flowers. But your school seems to be a park of carnivorous people who prey on the little flowers. Henceforth my daughter is not studying in this school.”
As I sat in the bus I was thinking about who was to blame: the teacher who inflicted corporal punishment on my child or the Principal or I myself?
Why did I send my child to school even before she celebrated her 4th birthday? How could a little child learn the meaning of words like carnivorous and their opposites? Children should be allowed to observe their environment, to see the plants, the seeds, the trees, the flowers, the birds, squirrels, butterflies and should be allowed to play with Nature. Only then can they develop their own vocabulary, only then can they understand what is meant by herbivorous and what its opposite is. Only then can they grow up into healthy and dutiful individuals.
Before reaching home, I came to the conclusion that I was the culprit. I pushed my child into the arena of ‘education business', into the hands of those people for whom an educational institution is just a commercial enterprise. I decided not to send my yet-to-be-born younger one to any school before she or he celebrates the fifth birthday. When I discussed the matter with my wife, she agreed with me.
The second child is celebrating her fifth birthday in the coming March. She knows the names of almost all birds, flowers, trees, plants and animals. She knows that the stars are bigger suns; she knows that plants and trees also do have life and some of them sleep at night; but she has not been to school yet. Everybody asks why we haven't sent her to school yet and their expression is like that we have committed a horrendous crime. They tell us that we can't get her admission in any “good” school now without her having completed LKG and UKG.
A good school means any school that is not a government-owned one. I tell them that I am sending her to the GUPS in which I studied. Another horrendous crime! Can your child have standard education from such schools? Only the children of the uneducated and the poor are there in such schools now. Won't the association with the “low class” children affect the culture of your child?
Of course, she can have standard education, because in such schools there are teachers who got the job with their ability, not on the strength of their pocket. As far as culture is concerned, is the ‘culture' of self-promotion the children who are sent to the so-called ‘standard' schools attain praiseworthy? I think it is the root cause of many an evil that haunts our nation today. And I have studied in government schools and I don't think that the standard of my education is inferior to that of the products of any one of the ‘standard' schools.
Then comes the general remark — Nowadays nobody (except of course the poor) sends their children to Malayalam medium schools. My answer — Isn't Malayalam your mother tongue and do you know what Jawaharlal Nehru says in the Glimpses of World History about one's own language?
“The only way for a people to grow, for their children to learn, is through their own language.”
By SUKUMARAN C. V. (lscvsuku@gmail.com)
Some thoughts:
This article highlights What is teaching? Is it teaching kids to be ruthlessly competitive OR Is it giving your child an opportunity to enjoy this world and realize his potential.
Personally, I had the pleasure of being taught by caring teachers, who were out to make honest and intelligent men/women and not just number-crunching, fact spewing machines.
When parents teach their kids to be ruthlessly competitive.They should remember- They will grow old and their kids would be just go-getters .It is anybody's guess, What they will do then!
The Starfish Story
While walking along a beach, an elderly gentleman saw someone in the distance leaning down, picking something up and throwing it into the ocean.
As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, picking up starfish one by one and tossing each one gently back into the water.
He came closer still and called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”
The young man paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean.”
The old man smiled, and said, “I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?”
To this, the young man replied, “The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them in, they’ll die.”
Upon hearing this, the elderly observer commented, “But, young man, do you not realise that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can’t possibly make a difference!”
The young man listened politely. Then he bent down, picked up another starfish, threw it into the back into the ocean past the breaking waves and said, “It made a difference to that one.”
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Cross culture confusion
"tak" in Polish means "yes".
The same "tak" in Swedish means "Thank You"
So when people of Sweden visit Poland.They are flattered with the politeness of Polish people, (while Polish people are simply saying yes ;) ).
The same "tak" in Swedish means "Thank You"
So when people of Sweden visit Poland.They are flattered with the politeness of Polish people, (while Polish people are simply saying yes ;) ).
Monday, September 17, 2012
Flashlight app
Does as said
brilliant white light from your phone main screen OR flash (if you have).
Other fun features also
Like colored bulbs
Red-Blue Police light
Traffic light
Great app! :)
Jota+
Jota+ is the best notepad editor I found in market.
It allows me to open large text files.So if you are one like me, who loves to write on his phone when laptop is not around.
Infact I edit the dropbox cache file in Jota+ and it automatically updates When I enable internet on my phone.
More features:
It has setting option to automatically save files when I switch to other apps OR if you prefer, you can manually save the file.
It allows me to open large text files.So if you are one like me, who loves to write on his phone when laptop is not around.
Infact I edit the dropbox cache file in Jota+ and it automatically updates When I enable internet on my phone.
More features:
It has setting option to automatically save files when I switch to other apps OR if you prefer, you can manually save the file.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
On my mind
You are special.The situations,events, experiences in your life are unique.
Nothing like you has ever existed and nothing will.
Cherish your individuality :)
Nothing like you has ever existed and nothing will.
Cherish your individuality :)
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Using people
Have you ever used people? I am sure, You would say "No"
Have you given more priority to objects than people? Again, a flat "No"
So let's hear a story then:
One of my colleagues bought a new car.As he was showing it to us, an excited kid from neigbourhood jumped into the backseat of the car.He hollered "Hey! come out. You will soil the seats." The kid sulked and walked away.
It led me thinking.
Which was more important, a kid's joy or a soiled car seat ? The car seat would become dirty anyway!
It seems we have begun to care more for things than people.All we can think is buying that new phone, that new dress,new car .May be we are just having a good time but can we pause and think What can I do to put a smile on that neighborhood kid's face?
Believe me! It would be worth more than that newest thing You want to buy.
To sum up:
As someone has put it so well
The reason there is so much chaos in this world,
Things were made to be used, People were made to be cared for
We have begun to care for the things and use the people.
It led me thinking.
Which was more important, a kid's joy or a soiled car seat ? The car seat would become dirty anyway!
It seems we have begun to care more for things than people.All we can think is buying that new phone, that new dress,new car .May be we are just having a good time but can we pause and think What can I do to put a smile on that neighborhood kid's face?
Believe me! It would be worth more than that newest thing You want to buy.
To sum up:
As someone has put it so well
The reason there is so much chaos in this world,
Things were made to be used, People were made to be cared for
We have begun to care for the things and use the people.
will try to remember that :)
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