Son Sujay with watering plants and activites

Our Son Sujay who started walking in last August 2008 has become more active now a days.

Below are couple of his videos :

It was difficult to understand him in the beginning especially whenever he was hungry or at time of his sleep.



We can see lot of changes in the mean time. He started speaking couple of words like thata(grandfather),ajji(grandmother),appaji,(daddy),amma(mother),atte,myanni(for maggi),car, socks,ppa(for chikkappa & doddappa)......

Now a days he wants to do few activites or things on his own like wearing slipper -shoes,eating ....

General election in India , 2009

India is currently holding general elections,the largest democratic election in the world to the 15th Lok Sabha in five phases on April 16, April 22-April 23, April 30, May 7 and May 13, 2009.

According to the Indian Constitution, elections in India for the Lok Sabha (the lower house) must be held at least every five years under normal circumstances. With the last elections held in 2004, the term of the 14th Lok Sabha expires on June 1, 2009.

The election is conducted by the Election Commission of India, which estimates an electorate of 714 million voters, an increase of 43 million over the 2004 election. During the budget presented in February 2009, Rs.1,120 Crores (€176 million) was budgeted for election expenses

Compared to last decade and couple of years back , there is a lot of changes in terms of Election campaign, disclosure of the assets of the person contesting the election, eduacted class contesting election, awareness among people has increased..

probable persons who can become Prime minister are Manmohan Singh of Congress, L.K.Advani of BJP, Mayawati of BSP...

Although there is couple of violence incidents here and there overall a peacefull election so far thanks to People, Election commission of india, Security, the government .....

Now a days after the introduction of Electronic Voting machines there is almost no chance of fake voting which is a very good change

One more interesting this is although people have enrolled their name & altough many of them had voiter id card could not vote in first two phases as their name is not appearing in the list may be due to lack of planning or discrepency..

When I went for voting i had to search my name for more than 30 minutes before voting..Finally got relieved when i saw my name & voted with id proof(we can vote even if have dont have Election id card \with ID
Proof such as PAN card, Driving licence, Bank passbook with photo card, ID card s given by college.....around 20 such ids so that we can use our power to elect our own leaders.

Nice to know software engineers, educated class people started contesting elections which is a good sign and from whom we can expect good governement and less corruption..

Hope India will see much more progress in coming years..

Coorg Trip

we colleagues had been to a Trip recently to Coorg,Nagarahole,Kushalnagar,Mysore and few other near by places.

Actually our colleagues had decided to hire vehicle but without driver so that we only could drive & enjoy as per our trip.Trip was awesome and memorable in many ways..may be free from regular office work, enjoying nature & outing,pulling others leg, nice drive,enjoyed friends vehicle drive .............

We were able to see a beautiful , nice morning view from Raja Seat in Coorg,excellent golden temple in Kushalnagar,Nice bath in Irpu Falls,a natioal park in Nagarahole.Nice swim and water play in Dubare Forest (but we could not go for Elephant safari as it had closed at 12:30PM),Mysore palace along with food in Mcdonalds & KFC..  

Trip was memorable in couple ways as for the first time I saw actaually witnessed travelling in a vehicle reaching upto 160km/Hr  on Road , thanks to nice highway although its little  risky to reach with that speed ,unless anybody knows driving well & has a nice control over it, thanks to Sanjay.Then Nadeem who knew basics of 4 four wheeler driving, driving with confidence , Sahoo with nice questions & answer session, Shafi for his awesome talk, Sam for his full energy filled inspiration to all, Shashir from his unique style,Pravash with nice causal talk to all of us & especially with shafi ..!

We enjoyed the trip overall..! :-)

Foriegn Notes

From my child hood that is from my primary School i started collecting Stamps.Later as i grew up started collecting variety of coins of our own country India & abroad. In recent years I started collecting foreign notes(Currecny) whenever I get an opportunity ..

Although it requires time & patience and of course interest to post detailed blog of these collections , i thought to post a blog to start with a couple of foreign notes.

I used to ask my close friends if they have these notes or coins ,if they have visted western counties or any country.I am lucky to collect some of them from friend Sandeep who had visted Bangaldesh, Nigeria couple of years back & my younger brother Arvind who got an opportunity to visit US,Korea,Hongkong,UK..

Here are some of the notes.

Bannerghatta National Park

Today I had been to Bannerghatta national parkwith family members.Here are some of the photos and details.. 

                                                     

Bannerghatta National Park is situated 22 km south of Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The journey to the park takes nearly an hour from Bangalore. This hilly place is the home for one of the richest natural, zoological reserves. The 25,000 acre (101 km²) zoological park makes this a major tourist attraction of Bangalore.

Travel Info

Altitude: 1245 to 1634 meters above sea level
Visiting hours: 9am to 5pm
Holiday: Closed every Tuesday

There is a small museum in the zoo which showcases zoological exhibits. The zoo, which is a major attraction in this area, also has a reptile park and a small theatre.. The Zoo closes on Tuesday (weekly Holiday)

The zoo has separate charges for weekdays and weekends (or Holidays). The prices currently for A Grand Safari — of Lions, Tigers & Herbivorus costsRs. 100 on regular days and Rs. 125 on weekends (and other holidays) where as, to move around the zoo would cost you Rs. 25.00. The Tiger and Lion safari is the most interesting and one can avail tickets only for that at a lower cost.

The entire month of May has holiday fares as that is the time when children in India have summer holidays.

Bannerghatta National Park contact phone number: +91-80-27828540

Butterfly Park

The country's first Butterfly Park was established at the Bannerghatta Biological Park couple of years ago..

Barack Obama -Man of the moment

Barack Hussein Obama ( born August 4, 1961) is the President-elect of the United States of America, and the first African American to be elected President of the United States.

Campaigning and the selction of a presidential election started almost a year ago in US.He has beaten Hilary clinton to get nomination for presidential election..

Campaigning attracted people & media not only from US but from all over the world for many reasons.May be United states is one of the largest & powerful country in the world.It has many multinational companies operating in different countries and Barack Obama will head the counrty who can make rules and take any strong decisions in this time of financial crisis.Many countries and their heads and thier country men are eagely waiting as US has always played a major role in terms of Worlsd politics,international affairs..

Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 3, 2005 until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the forty-fourth U.S. president will begin on January 20, 2009.

Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African-American president of theHarvard Law Review. He worked as a community organizer, and practiced as a civil rights attorney in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Obama was elected to the Senate in November 2004. Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Obama helped create legislation to control conventional weaponsand to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change,nuclear terrorism, and care for U.S. military personnel returning from combat assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

When I spoke to many people from United states right from campaigning till his election to President I got varied opinions and respnse like , politicians give lot of assurances and they dont do as in other countries , few pepole were least bothered about the person whoever is elected, some are having hopes that he will do good job..

Obama has lot of challenges ahead as Unites states as US is going through tough time in terms of financial crisis.Many country men are thinking that he may put some restrictions on outsourcing job to other countries..

Lets wait and watch as time has come to see his power & his dreams for his country ...

All the Best Obama ....

DR.C.R.Chandrashekar a Psychiatrist with a difference..

Dr.C.R.Chandrashekhar, a Famous Psychiatrist from Kanataka has turned 60 on Friday . To mark this day "Kannada Vaidya Saahitya Parishat "has conducted a function yesterday in Bangalore.

I got an opportunity to attend this useful Felicitation programme yesterday evening.

Lot of Doctors from all over Karnataka had come to attend this function along with lot of fans, writers and  people from all walks.

Dr.C.R.C as he known to readers is born on December 12,1948, in small town of Channapattana in a middle class family.

He is known as the first person to write about psychiatry in Kannada.Till now he has written 159 books.! Out of which 107 books are related to Psychiatry.

I was surprised to know that his books have been translated to few languages like Urdu,English & Gujrathi also.

He is not only a Doctor,Psychiatrist,also a good Speaker  who has given a lot of programmes in Radio & Television. He is very simple living and high thinking person.

Today we can see people suffering from depression,tension & other diseases related to mind.

Psychiatrists are playing a major role in curing these diseases through medicines & counselling.

It was a memorable function as lot of books related to health,sex,Ayurveda,Homoeopathy  were on display & sale.And there was a discussion & lecture by eminent personalites.