Why do we address, the way we do??-VJ

I was thinking today, why we address our elders wrongly, just interms of relationships.

A few examples:
1) I called Janet Akka/Athai once Chithi.
2) Myself, Ajay and Mani call Bobby Mama and his mom has Vijaya Chithi.
3) The worst is Korattur Dany's family. I sometimes refer to them as Periappa-Periama, sometimes as Mamma-Athai.

I thought that I was the one who makes this blunder all the time. But today I realised that Arul also refers to his grandmother/Athai has Periama.Arul how did Sironmani ammachi or Athai become Periamma? I am confused and I wrote this confusing post.

I guess its really easy in English, where you just refer all of them as Uncles and Aunties.

Appu, you dont feel that everyone calls you Vaada/Pooda

BEER please!!! (boon-bane-bone) - Prax

Milk isn’t the only bone-building beverage: A beer may also help, say British doctors. It’s a good source of silicon, a mineral that is thought to stimulate collagen production, a building block in bone formation. In a preliminary study, doctors looked at 2847 people from a British osteoporosis study and found that men/women who consumed that most silicon – about 40mg a day – had the highest bone mineral density, a measure of bone health.

Silicon is rarely listed on nutrition labels, so it’s hard to tell how much we consume, says study author Jonathan Powell, a nutrition researcher at St Thomas’s Hospital in London. A 340ml beer has about 7 mg of silicon.

Not a drinker? This news is no reason to start, since excess alcohol consumption raises other health risks, (**mandha memory, liquid liver...**) including osteoporosis (bone fracture) itself. Dates, mangoes, melons, spinach, apples and some bottled mineral waters are also good sources of silicon.
Source : Reder's Digest (Mar 2005) & **-Prax

Devil's Pool-Vj

Help Proverbs! - Prax

The 'Proverbs' is very quite for a long time. So, I thought let me help it look better on the label count. Let me throw a couple of it.

1. A dead fish gets washed along; a live one swims across.

This World throws a lot of challenges. Do we get washed along or get over?

2. Happy Wife; Happy Life.

Before arguing with your “W” just ask yourself this question
Do I wanna be right? Or Do I wanna be happy?

jesus is

vj remember this song.jannet you too would know this.i learnt it in navodhaya
david

Daddy of Swing-VJ

Big Daddy of Swing

REPLY TO FISH-Appu

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You can also use a digital image for the Fish like the one above.Googled it and got this one and many more representations are there too!So I encourage each one of you to contribute

WHEN THE SAINTS GO

DAVID

Christians and Fish-VJ

I read an article about a Jesus Fish symbol. So thought I would share. This is called as "Ichthys", during the early christian period, due to the fear of persecution, when a Christian met a stranger in the road, the Christian sometimes drew one arc of the simple fish outline in the dirt. If the stranger drew the other arc, both believers knew they were in good company. The symbol is still used today to show that the bearer is a practicing Christian.

Bobby Mama could throw some light on its historical significance if any, maybe related to Peter or the early fishing disciples/missionaries.

Let me tell you what... (part 2) - Prax

Suddenly the monitors showed some activity. There was a buzz around.
Something good was happening. It was successful and there she came out of the operation theatre ALIVE.

She is a weak young lady with numerous complexity in her body. Her mother and sister (she lost her father) were clearly upset on how she will get through this. But she was repeatedly given these words from Jeremiah 29:11. She strongly believed it. She never felt any discomfort. During her operation and before going unconscious she only prayed this. “Lord I would stand a witness and share it with as many as I could, if I come back alive. I place my life in Your hands”.

To be continued…

DANIEL WOODS

Hi guyz...I keep in touch with u by writing comments on the blogs,,dai dubukku arul..comments a paaru da ngoiya....
Ok the latest news is that I am going to play "GOLF" yes really ,for the first time in my life and that too with some corporate clients.I guess ther's gonna be lotta embarrassement.Janet and Abel are doing great by God's Grace..Janet is doing well in her job and Abel is going for his swimming classes..starting t'rrow.Me selling cars at a good pace...Nuthin much guyz...
cheers..danny

Let me tell you what... (part 1) - Prax

She was admitted for an open Heart surgery in the Apollo Hospital, Chennai.

The date was fixed and terror struck on people around her, but she was unruffled. Days to hours, hours to minutes, minutes to seconds… and there the big round lights went on, on top of her. Those masked men were working frantic and artificial respiration was on.

Complex process! ‘50-50’ chance was already informed to the representative. To worsen the fear, the negative 50 was taking over. Deteriorating! Dreadful and confused, the men in mask worked hectic but lost hope inside. Some of them even gave up and sat down still watching those monitors as it was nearing a halt .....

D e a d
almost.

To be continued…

கமெண்ட் இல்லே, ப்லோகே அன்னுபலாம்! - prax

என்னா கலக்கலா பாடி இருக்குது நம்ம ஜிம்மி! அடா அடா புல் அரிக்குது போ! அந்த 'லைன் ச்லீப்ஸ் டுனய்ட்' பாட்டு.

தேங்க்ஸ் வி ஜே.,

அருளு,

அதுல நடுவுல குடுத்து கீராம்பாறு மீசிக், அள்ளுது மனச!

ரெண்டு நிமிஷம் ஆறு செகேண்டுல நோட் பண்ணு, பாட்டு பறக்குது.

A trip in the African Jungle -VJ

AFRICAN SONG IN ALL ITS BEAUTY, THE AFRICAN VERSION OF ONE OF THE FIRST "SKF" HITS

Dundee, my window, Guess the time-VJ

What time do you think this picture was taken? Well, this is how it is at 10:30pm and 4:00 am. This picture was taken at 4:00 am. The duration of sunlight promises to increase more in the coming days.

Zimbabwe Currency Crash (An Indian is a Zimbabwean crorepati)-VJ

I am not sure, how many of you know about the situation in Zimbabwe. The economy crashed a long time back and I heard accounts of people not finding water to drink etc etc. But the situation would be better understood, if you consider the value of 1 Zimbabwe Dollar. Yesterday it crashed so badly, that 1 USD was equal to 1 Billion Zimbabwe Dollar ( Yes, 1 Billion !!). That means one Indian rupee is equal to 2.2 crores Zimbabwe Dollar.
Just thought that this would be an eye opener for us.

Song with meaning-Vj

I liked this song a lot, it has a nice message/sermon. I felt the lyrics which appear as subtitles in the song, carried a nice meaning

100th post david

this song was taught to me by prax everyone in our family must be able to say this

Nearing 100 posts-VJ

We are nearing our 100th post on our Blog, that's an impressive joint effort. I know it

is a small thing, but I thought of summarizing the best posts till now and have a "BEST OF SKF".

Btw, this is our 99th post, so say what are our best posts in the comments section

Give a caption for the Birthday Babies-VJ

Hey guys this is a follow up to Prax's post. Both these people are celebrating their birthdays tomorrow. Can you think of a caption or a comment which highlights their similarities.

Btw dont use any sarcastic or negative comments, coz we are dealing with an Indian leader. There are chances of it being a cyber crime or some other issue ( Some guy was jailed for writing wrong comments about our Congress President ). So just positive comments.

'Habetbaba' - Prax

In an Australian Aboriginal language called Jingulu, 'Habetbaba' means nothing to say/inform. Yea, there is nothing special to mention. I was thinking of writing a blog, but no news, and so, this blog. This only goes to show that even if you don't have matters to jot, you can still manufacture scraps. 'Write something about nothing' is the title of a famous book by Charles Dickens. And talking about Charles, we have a Charles too, who's celebrating his 19th birthday tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Charles Mani!