Ambimama - India

Today is Amavasya. The no-moon day is the Amavasya day. It is a very holy day for Hindus. We do ‘Tharpanam’, that is we remember our physically dead parents for three generations on both the Father and Mother side. It is included in the ‘Nitya Karma’ or the Daily Duties that a Hindu should follow. The Daily Karma includes ‘Three times Sandhya’ or the salutations to the Sun, the chanting of Gayathri Mantra and this is done with nothing in reward to the doer. All the rewards are offered back to the God with a mind that is free.

It is Kali Yuga and it is well known that all these Nitya Karmas will slowly lose its significance and will be questioned. There will be laziness and the science to question the very act of doing Karma. While I write this I pretty well know that I am not doing what I am told to do by my ancestors, who had good health and lived happily whatever their physical ailments.
What about me? I am enjoying the benefits of the Good done by my forefathers. I have stopped the pedalling of the Cycle. It runs for some time. How long will it run? It is with me and I must pedal, not for me, but for the peace and good of Earth and Our System.

I did watch the Twenty20 finals yesterday, but not till the last. If it was India, I would have kept awake. But my family kept awake and they wanted Sri Lanka to win. And they did not win. A poor show by the batsmen.

I was irritated by the Ads showing Indian batsmen which was not wanted at all. This clearly shows the money received by the batsmen and the Ads have to be shown. Do the Ad people realize the negative effect they produce on the viewers? Sure they must analyze the viewership and buying by people of the goods due to the Ads.

I am of the view that any Advertisement shown does have a negative effect when shown repeatedly. The Ad cost must be increased like the one they show for Super bowl and the Apple Mac Ad was shown only once, many years back.

Pure-it water filter rate has gone up by Res500/-. Typical of any multi-national company’s pricing strategy. And the size of the filter cup has been reduced. I find the service has improved, but again here the cost has gone up. The water from pure-it is 100% germ free but the quality is based on the water that is input. It does not make hard water into soft water.

Only if I have soft water like the Chennai corporation water, which is chlorinated, it is good to drink. I have the advantage of removing the chlorine totally from water by pure-it. The carbon filters removes all the extra chemicals from water and is safe for drinking. But I find in some homes, where they use well water, the water is hard to taste. Yet it is germ free.
Most people who have their food in hotels drink water mechanically. They do not check the taste or insist upon pure water. At the most they buy packaged water. My stomach does not get upset when I drink water from tea shops on the road side. But I drink a minimum only to quench my thirst and I do not bother about thinking of it. May be I have become immune to germs or this summer. Only of late I am worrying so much about water that I drink outside my Home.

About 10 years back I did not care the water source from which i drank. I did think that whatever water I had, it was Ganges water! And the thought is also important. Whatever I drink or eat, I must be pure to have it.

The interest for this Vijay TV show is really high. I have seen many homes where the watchers are glued to the TV. It really encourages the youth today to excel in their singing talents. The singers really have to spend their time apart from their regular studies and the teachers do not show mercy for them if they fail in their normal school activities.

It is a challenge for the youngsters to show their singing talents. They are often invited to sing in marriages and earn money to some extent. Recently I went to one of the marriages of my relative and the stage was live with latest songs and the audience were a happy lot.

I do not know if AirTel promotes such talents in other Indian languages also.
I have tried to upload a few of the Super Singers here.

My teams have not come into the finals, namely the West Indies and South Africa. It is Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka. Strange, but they played better. Only in the game of Twenty20 this can happen. The most experienced and winning team may fail.

We will see some of the cricket sledges in Twenty20 soon. And forget what the media is offering you in the Newspaper or the TV news, which only wants to confuse and use big words to make News and excitement. They actually irritate and make us to not watch that channel!

Enough has been said about the Indian players. We have seen more than 60 players in the IPL matches in the 8 teams. And the best was chosen by Dhoni. It’s all over now. We will see how they play against West Indies in the One Day and the coming Test Matches.

And tomorrow I cannot say who will win - I do not have personal touch or enthusiasm for both the teams. But I will watch the match tomorrow. Let me carefully analyse the teams and then give a prediction for win.