Shruti: 1 year and 8 months - shape identification

Shruti was able to identify images for quite sometime, she cannot tell, but can identify whatever you ask her from a picture book. I was astonished to see her identifying 'A' from the car number board, a week back. Now, she can also identify M, O, S. She also know that 'S' signifies Shruti. If you ask her, 'Where is S- Shruti?', she can show the letter 'S'. All credit goes to my Mother.

However I draw a crow, fan, cycle, mixie, auto, car, moon, star, feeding bottle, flower, chair, table, elephant, she identifies. Moment to feel good about my drawing skills.

Inside a car, she can point out where the gear, steering, mirror, AC, lock, seat, horn.

This is the time to teach them everything. Good Grasping power.

Dresses I designed for Shruti

Shruti - 1 year and 8 months

Now, Shruti has started to talk, over the last one week. Don't remember exactly how and when she started, but it just happened! Some of her first few words after amma - kaakka (crow), paapa (baby), thatha (grandfather), Daddy (finally, her father is happy to hear this), vaava (come), .....thi (Shruti), .....kka (sister), ....nna (brother) and trying out more. Very nice to hear their first speech!

Shruti's first ride on a scooty: I never thought Shruti could stand in front and travel on the Scooty. She was crying when I took my scooty over the weekend. So I gave took her on the vehicle with some doubts. But she could stand properly and she thoroughly enjoyed the small rounds we made. When she became confident standing, she started turning around, which was little scary and I had to manage.

Her time-pass with dhal

One of the vehicle I drove in Namakkal Driver Training Centre

Rise to an MD with courage

Heard about an MD from my cab friend! Worked in SBI and shifted to BHEL. BHEL has external recruitment once in a while. Internal candidates can also apply. KG Ramachandran rose to different levels in the organisation by applying externally for every level. Few lines on KG Rachandran from the net.

Mr K.G. Ramachandran obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Commerce from Mysore University and Bachelor's degree in
Law from the Bangalore University. He is also an Associate Member of the Indian Institute of Bankers. He started his working career in 1968 as an officer with SBI. He worked with SBI till 1983 when he was the Deputy Chief Officer in-charge of industrial lending. He migrated to Bahrain to take up a job in credit administration with the offshore banking unit of the Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait. He returned to India for personal reasons in 1993 and joined BHEL. He played an important role in setting up the new Financial Services Department to take care of treasury, cash management and foreign exchange exposure management functions. He was elevated to the Board of Directors of BHEL in November 1993 as Finance Director. He became Chairman and Managing Director of BHEL

A gift to remember!

A boy and a girl, with a blossoming friendship go out to dinner with a gang of friends. They have good food, lot of fun and an icecream treat. It should be around 10 pm and all the friends walk back to their rooms in the dark and cold night. They make noise in that otherwise silent surrounding, teasing each other. Girl boy ratio will be around 4:11. The girls too walk in that night without fear, with a gang of reliable friends. They move in a group of 2 or 3 behind each other, leaving the monstrous trucks to pass by them.

The girl is also walking in this group with her new pair of slippers and the boy behind her. One small sound 'tup' and a small slip by the girl. She notices her slippers torn, the boy had stamped it. Almost one km to walk and with torn slippers, the girl finds it difficult to reach to her room. She heard the 'sorry' word again and again throughout the way, but nobody could help her. He said he will buy her a new one. The next few days passed as usual .



Time came when the group of friends had to split. They exchanged small gifts. The girl got a gift, a beautiful bridal toy shoe with a small note 'I promised to buy you shoes. Here it is.. (after all I tore the good one). Oh! I forgot to give you the other one. If you want, please contact me later'. There was only one shoe! The girl felt very happy seeing the gift. She wanted the other shoe. She felt disappointed when she came to know that the other shoe was with her room mate. She felt happy when she read the note to her friend, which also mentioned about her. Doesn't this seem to be creating a new relationship more than friendship?!

My Pongal Kolam in Vellore