Think or sink!

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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Varun is ambidextrous when it comes to eating.

He can use the spoon and fork with expertise.

Today he learned a new skill... eating with his hands.

He watched his grandpa keenly and picked up the skill

and felt so happy to look like the MaNNaal Aana Maamyiaar

featuring in a humorous story with the

cooked rice smeared all over his chin and cheeks.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Juju became a full fledged fairy Princess with her

tiara, net dress, butterfly wings, magic wand,

pink gloves and pink shoes!

She had the princesses' stories read out by my son

and talked about Caring and Sharing

her toys and books with little Varun! :clap2:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

MaNNaal aana Maamiyaar! (part 1)

Two neighbors shared a common wall in their houses. It was the custom to build houses in that fashion in small villages -

to save space and the expenditure.

Additional bonus was the ability to hear everything going on at the neighbor's place - as a free entertainment.

One of the houses had a couple and the mother of that man. The other housed a newly married couple.

The young innocent girl wanted to have a mother in law of her own and pestered her husband to get her one.

Well! He could not a buy a ready-made-mother at any shop. So he settled for the next best thing and brought her a woman's

figure made of clay - MaNNaal aana Maamiyaar, the heroin of this tale.

The young thing adored her ever-silent and ever-smiling mother in law figurine. She offered her the best food and forced her

to eat. But the figure neither moved nor ate. The girl was in tears.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

MaNNaal aana Maamiyaar! (part 2)

The cunning mother in law of the neighbor heard all these and evolved a plan beneficial to both the parties concerned. She hid behind

the figure of the clay M.I.L and spoke to the girl, giving her a list of the choicest food she wished to eat. The girl cooked everything ,

kept them in front of the figure and went away as instructed.

The cunning old lady ate happily the feast, smeared a few grains of the cooked rice near the mouth of the figure and quietly went off

to her house. This went on for a few days and the monthly provision got exhausted in a fortnight.

Her husband was surprised and demanded to know how it had happened. The young wife told him that she was preparing all the nice

dishes as demanded by his mother and feeding her everyday.

Well! You can imagine the shock he got to her this tall ale!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

MaNNaal aana Maamiyaar! (part 3)

He decided to investigate the matter unknown to his wife and hid in that room on the next day. His wife brought the feast

and left it there. The old M.I.L of her neighbor feasted happily as usual.

Now this made him mad with rage that any girl in her right senses can accept that a mud figure ate real food. He beat her

blue and purple and drove her away with her favorite M.I.L.

The girl carried the figure with difficulty and went away crying to the near by forest. She climbed on to a tree and sat there

the whole night. A band of thieves came there and sat down under the same tree to share their loot. The frightened girl

dropped down her clay M.I.L at some point of the proceedings.

The bolt from the blue made the thieves take to their heels in utter confusion and fear.

Te girl climbed down next morning and went back home with the treasure she found under the tree. Her husband was more

than happy to welcome her back - now that she carried a rich treasure with her instead of the clay M.I.L.

All is well that ends well. BUT this is not the end of the story!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

MaNNaal aana Maamiyaar! (part 4)

The news of the windfall spread fast. The neighbor made another scheme. She too got a clay M.I.L made and went to the

forest crying and carrying it as if driven away by her husband.

She climbed on to the same tree and waited for the thieves. The thieves came back to the same tree but with sticks instead of

the burgled loot. They located the woman hiding on the tree. They made her come down and gave her the juiciest possible

feast with their sticks.

She ran home blue and purple beat by the band of thieves.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Moral of the story.

1. Foul plans meet foul ends.

2. Greed in any form is bad.

3. Imitation does not always work out.

4. We can't cheat all the people, all the time and in all the places.

 

[nguruguhan]

In my opinion, when we should think well and let others to sink us. We would just come up like a ball sunk in water if we are clear with our thoughts.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Scary but true!!! :scared:



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[Visalakshi Ramani]

Go to a party if mentally prepared

to end up in a jail or go for a bail!!!



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Will the mystery of MH370 get solved??? :decision:




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Juju's purple colored Princess trolly bag lights up

the jewels of the princes whenever the bag is moved.

Varun found a way to light them up

even without moving the trolly bag

by giving a gentle tap on top of the bag!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Everything Juju owns is pink.

Her birthday cup cakes had pink icing.

One little chap in her school said,

"The cup cakes look so girly that we won't eat them!"

All the boys fell in line and did not touch the cakes.

Imagine our surprise when that boy finally ran away

with the big box filled with cup cakes iced in pink color. :wacko:

He had wanted all the cakes for himself opcorn:

and had played a subtle trick on his class mates!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Beautiful and scary!!!

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It is the lean people who work hard to contribute this money! :roll:




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For once the graph dropping downwards makes us feel relieved!



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[Visalakshi Ramani]

Modern marauri ???

No stains!!!

what about the stench???:bolt:

Looks like it has to be peeled away every time

the person wants to do one of the several businesses!!!

May be it is created as the Anti-Rape-Pants (A.R.P)

or the Rapist Repellent Pants (R.R.P)



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[Visalakshi Ramani]

Orifices and oozing are inseparable in humans. :yuck:

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[Visalakshi Ramani]

The ukulele (/juːkəˈleɪliː/, ew-kə-LAY-lee, from Hawaiian: ʻukulele [ˈʔukuˈlɛlɛ], OO-KOO-le-le; British English: ukelele)sometimes abbreviated to uke, is a member of the guitar family of instruments; it generally employs four nylon or gut strings or four courses of strings.

The ukulele originated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian interpretation of the machete,[SUP] [/SUP]a small guitar-like instrument related to the cavaquinho, timple, braguinha and the rajão, taken to Hawaii by Portuguese immigrants, many from the Macaronesian Islands. It gained great popularity elsewhere in the United States during the early 20th century, and from there spread internationally.

The tone and volume of the instrument varies with size and construction. Ukuleles commonly come in four sizes: soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone.

Hawaii

The Ukulele is commonly associated with music from Hawaii where the name roughly translates as "jumping flea,perhaps because of the movement of the player's fingers. Legend attributes it to the nickname of the Englishman Edward William Purvis, one of King Kalākaua's officers, because of his small size, fidgety manner, and playing expertise. According to Queen Liliʻuokalani, the last Hawaiian monarch, the name means “the gift that came here,” from the Hawaiian words uku (gift or reward) and lele (to come).

Courtesy Wikipedia