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International Women Day is celebrated worldwide to celebrate women achievement. This day gives us an opportunity to celebrate our womanhood and our attributes together.

In conjunction with International Women’s Day – IWD, we’re having Celebrating Womanhood….A Fiesta on 7th of March 2009, Suntec City 3rd Floor, Singapore. FREE Admission, 9am-7pm, organized by SHINE Self-Help International Network Enterprise. There are FUN & Interactive workshops on Health, Beauty & Self-Discovery. Goodies Bags for participants & very attractive prizes to be won! http://www.shineworldwide.com/celebratingwomanhood.html 
Take out time for yourself:)
It will be an exciting event for every woman to make new friends, enjoy, learn, dance and have fun. Motto is to have fun so don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy!

You must attend with your friends & loved ones, for a Grand Celebration & Lots of FUN & Learning, Celebrating Womanhood! More details & Register for Workshops @

I am scared picking up newspaper every morning nowadays. Tidings are bad. Retrenchments, frauds, shutdowns, further leading to suicides and murders, has created an atmosphere of uncertainty around us. I always try to look forward to some positive spark around to come out of my negativity’s and keep on moving, because I consider its important to keep on moving in life. But certainly it demands some kind of passion in life which comes from your profession for some people.

Today news from Los Angel es describe the sad story of a father murdering his 5 kids and wife before shooting himself  due to his over debt situation. Daily such stories are coming around and its making me ponder that how helpless we become in such situations that we are pushed to kill our near ones. ITS FRUSTRATING! I just pray God to provide every individual energy to come out and certainly not give up to any negative situations around them. May be this time is to ponder upon ourselves. Like how we have become. Job is necessary for survival but not to certain extent that we loose our balance without it. May be we are getting a chance to look for more survival sources around us. In today’s times there are so many platforms to earn money. Its just that you have to balance yourself. Don’t make your ego so high that you cannot take monetary downfall easily. Life is precious. Don’t base it on materialism. Trust your family and teach your family values of life and don’t lead them to materialistic life. 

As a woman I think we have to check first ourselves that we are not getting into materialism.Don’t let your ambitions overpower you. Your family is your priority and not your ego. And now being wife and mother you have to check that your family is not turning to materialistic family. Nurture  love for each other in family and around your world as that’s the only key to real happiness!

The book is an eye-opener to the reality behind the corporate working culture of international banks. Really, this book will leave you with a feeling of bitterness of the way the ambitions are achieved at the cost of integrity and values.

Those who are working in the corporate environment or are aware of the work culture there will not be bothered, but for people like me who are just having no paths crossed across the corporate lanes(and I really thank God for it!) is something, what to say general awareness kind of thing:).

I will appreciate Ravi Subramanian style of writing. Story is certainly not having loose breaks in between. You just want to finish the whole story in one go. You cannot just leave it. It really excites you and you can relate to it at some places. Character of Sundeep, Swami,,Aditya are build very strongly and author has done justice to every character.Rising the ladder of success by losing ones integrity and values can never help you to achieve success in life. That’s the crux of the story. Honesty is really the best policy in world, and that applies to banking culture also. The story reflects the  struggle of power , status, ambitions in the competitive banking scenario as the background.

The other reason why I liked the story was it high-lites the plight of working women. What challenges women have to face in their working environment, how they are being  abused and exploited by their bosses and how they are strong enough to face such oddities of work culture and come out a winner. Author has really put effort to bring out all female characters strongly. At certain places you feel woman herself  is responsible for her exploitation as she uses her femininity to climb the ladder of success.

Hats off to Ravi Subramanian to bring out such a splendid story to us!

Recently there was a news update that parents are joining social networking sites to be friends with their kids.In today’stimes parents don’t want to be bounded in the parameters of ‘MOTHER’ and ‘FATHER’ status. They want to be open minded to them in terms of  relationship. They are fully aware that the more liberal they are the more verbal their kid will be with them.Social networking sites are really benefiting these parents  to come closer to their kids. Though many kids will never like their parents to be in their friend’s list , but some are doing. This change in attitude shows that how comfortable these kids are with their parents. That shows the ease of  communication between them.

Relationships are important in every individuals life. In today’s times of uncertainty strong relationships give you emotional strength to fight with odds of life. Parent child relationship is the foremost relationship in anybodies life.Platform like orkut can provide a support to this relationship by enhancing awareness about each other and thus creating interest in each other. Its a pleasure to see parents scraping their kids, writing testimonials and doing other activities on social networking site for each other.

Every relationship demands limits and so the relationship with parents also. You cannot expect your kid to be so open that he will share each details of his life with you. Give him his space.Avoid certain things which worry you.Let him handle his life  in his own way and make sure you are always present there for the support if  required. Then only your child will be comfortable in interacting with you on such platform like orkut. Let the trust build with time and see the miracle of that trust!

Happy networking!

Rachida Dati did it. Her controversial act of getting pregnant first without getting married, then refusing to name the father of the baby and now going back to her work just after 5 days of her baby’s delivery is eyebrow raising!

Rachida is a French Justice Minister. She is 42, she is single, and she is glamorous. While she was in the hospital for the delivery, she was following the ministry affairs. We can really appreciate her determination and focused nature, but at the cost of her motherhood which is debatable. Now whats shocking to mothers of whole world is that she is back to her work after 5 days of her Cesarean section. She never utilized her maternity leaves provided by the office. This can create pressure on other working women throughout world. If she can do it why not others?

Its a personal decision for every mother how much time she wants to spend with her child. May be being single and fear of being thrown out of the ministry forced Rachida to go back as earliest to her work. But certain issues in life cannot be ignored. Relationships like mother and baby need time to nurture and if you don’t give that time to your baby then you are really missing something in life.

I certainly criticize Rachida act. She should give second thoughts to her decision and not set a bad example to other working mothers around world!

Isn’t it shocking!

Children at this age are still busy with their dolls and balls or cycling around. Thoughts of marriage and then eloping from their houses requires certain level of awareness and confidence, which I think kids get naturally, thanks to the Media and Internet these days. Kids are approaching adult stage in their life very early these days. Its  very scary. Childhood is the most cherished stage of life for any adult.The innocence of childhood is priceless. Though the whole idea of eloping from their house to get married , with their baggage  is innocent but it can lead to extreme results. It gives me goose bumps to just think , what would have happened if they were not spotted by the police. Outer world is so dangerous for kids nowadays, everybody is aware of.

Kids are smart nowadays. They are mostly aware of things  going around so its foolery to think they are unknown to things happening around them. The only solution is to talk to them as much as we can. When we talk to them they come out with lots of questions and then they can ask you anything.I am not that much experienced in matter of child handling. I really want suggestions from my readers, what can we do to save our kids innocence. 

Start suggesting please!

Lets hope this New Year brings lots of laughter’s, joy, inner happiness, and abundance in every body’s life. Its good to have a new start in life every year in form of New Year. It gives you a chance to take a pause in life, review and introspect yourself and start with a new spirit with new year!

It just depends upon individuals views. Some people take New Year day as a party day only with lots of merry making. But for some ,who really want to make worth use of this precious life, which we at times take for granted, they take every New Year as chance for improving upon themselves.Resolutions are made every year and broken too.But somehow I feel its necessary to make resolutions. May be you are not able to fulfill every resolution but atlest  you will have some effect in you mind which will lead to some results. Common resolutions are weight loss, regular exercise, quiting smoking and drinking. Some unusual resolutions which I came across were by Jhon Ed Mathison’s blog page-

WHAT IF, instead of resolving to lose 10 pounds this year, you resolved to eat according to a diet that could sustain the whole world?

WHAT IF, instead of resolving to get more exercise this year, you resolved to exercise some spiritual muscles and organize a prayer-chain across your community?

WHAT IF, instead of resolving to spend less time in front of the TV and more time reading some good books, you resolved to teach those struggling with illiteracy to read those books to you?

WHAT IF, instead of resolving to spend more “quality time” with your family, you resolved to take your family on a mission project for a week, or a month or even longer? 

These can be really exciting and effective resolutions for those who really give importance to resolutions in their life. They are fully aware that in long run their resolutions will help them to be better person next year and thus will improve their quality of life!

This year in my list the prioritized resolution is to write almost everyday in my blog :).I really want to reach to needy in our society in any manner. Saying goes as if your mind can conceive it, you can achieve it. Lets see how much we achieve what we have conceived.

Best of luck to everybody!

Yes its possible now. Say thanks to Internet power. There are some sites like prayabout.com and ipraytoday.com which gives you a platform to put request in front of whole world to pray for your cause. It goes on the belief that if more people believe then there are more chances of happening of it. Isn’t it true?

We all talk about power of subconscious mind, power of belief, power of positive thinking, power of law of attraction in this world. If we want to get somebody cured or get rid of some problem ours elf we pray. And when the whole world pray for you then it will be such a powerful praying! It can be amazing act and will lead to spread of compassion for each other.Eventually it will spread message of love around.

While asking for prayer we should be sincere for our cause of prayer. It should be genuine like cure from some illness, or any other problem. It should never be for selfish cause like to pass some examination, or get your girlfriend back in your life, as put on the site by some people.

Prayers can do wonders.Even doctors pray to God when they loose hope. Pray for the betterment of society and when you pray for somebody with your soul then the feeling of happiness you will get will be amazing. So keep praying!

I was aghast seeing those images from Mumbai on the television and the first thing which came into my mind was that what if I was there at that moment enjoying the ambiance of Taj and just going to start my dinner. Then suddenly there is this shooting and rest becomes history. What a feeling of terror I felt. Then what the public must have gone through those 60hrs of this carnage.

Its over now but what about the repercussions. Every mishap in our country is followed by certain activities for some days and then back to normal life. This is what Mumbaiwites are doing. They just want to go back to their normal life. Every individual has some work to carry out. Then who cares for the blogs, or the rallies, or the media blast on our politicians, international dialogues and comments,.Nobody is definitely not happy, so everybody is trying to show their apathy through some medium. Same way as I am writing in my blog.BUT WHAT NEXT?

All metro citizens have got so much used to such mishappenings that now they are loss of words to condemn the government even. They just confirm their near dears are fine and then they  continue with their normal life. Its such a pity. Whynot somebody can carry the action as Nasiruddin Shah’s character did in A Wednesday. Why our government is taking so much time in punishing the criminals of previous mishaps. Criminal held for 2001 Parliament mishap is still not hanged inspite of the legal decision  taken to hang him.

In my capacity , what I understand if we punish such criminals in a brutal way, never realizung the humane feeings within us , this will spread terror among the criminals to some extent atleast. Our  politics is so much busy with internal activities that topic of terrorism is reminded by the terrorists only occassionaly!

When such mishap happens then the way some people react is amazing. The act of providing food to the army in action by Sikh youths is a praisable act. Now this is called positive reaction to any mishap. Instead of sitting in front of TV and discussing politics with coffee, these youth have taken some action and came out for help in such a way.Somebody lost his wife, sister, husband, whole family.Many occupants of the hotel were foreigners, instead of making them go through their feelings by asking them same questions why not media leaves them on their own or rather help them in some other way.

What an insecure environment we are living in? We as adults can make our self strong and get our self busy in day to day activities but what about the small kids. At their age when they are supposed to live in free environment and enjoy the benefits of natural surroundings, they have to go through these terror episodes which add words like terrorists, guns, to their  vocab. In my capacity I am just trying to pray God from the soul of my heart to give these insane people some sense so that they don’t involve themsives in such dreadful activities!