My Mother

You lay a permanent impression upon my heart,

I owe you more than anyone,

you gave me all I wanted.


You gave me something special,

something that only you gave,

your love, oh mother, is not measurable.


You loved me when i was good,

you loved me when I was bad,

you forgave me every time I asked for it.


You praised me in everything I did,

you just wanted to see me as the shining star,

you made me shine over others.


Life is so much fun when I am around you,

I know I know, I argued, I fought,

but you, you always chose what was best for me.


You know what I am doing,

every second of my life,

you know when I’m lying,

you know when I’m sad,

you know when I’m happy,


You just know what’s happening

to me all the time, because

God put you here for that,

to watch over me

as my guardian angel, and I

will always treasure you

in my heart.

Attitude

It is all about how you think, which affects the circumstances. A problem is not interpreted as
problem does not become a problem. All one needs to do is to have a right attitude.
My experience of having or rather trying to maintain a right attitude has taken me to ladder of
success.
To maintain the right attitude I have synchronized my emotions ,thoughts and action together.
It requires you to become sensitive to your environment and to yourself too.
A right attitude helps you in socializing and developing a great personality too.

Idly, Vada, Sambar

This is an early morning delicacy of many South Indian families. No South Indian restaurent opens without this in their breakfast menu. It is one wonderful combination of health and taste. Freshly steamed idlies, hot, fried vadas, crunchy on the outside and juicy in the inside and a bowl of well spiced sambar. It is a lip smacking, finger licking treat!!

I Resolve

To spread a little gladness
Along the path I walk;
To speak in gentle accents 
Whenever I shall talk;
To  tell a friend in trouble
That I can helpful be
And seek to show the stranger
He has a friend in me.
To be remembering others,
Forgetting selfish aim;
To banish thoughts that shadow
The mind with taint of shame.
To hear my conscience whisper
Each night before I rest,
"However much you have stumbled
You have done your very best"

Gems

     In my mother's cupboard, I found a book called "Gem; For Better Living". It was a book filled with short, simple and meaningful poems. I decided to make it a point to read atleast one poem from it every day.  
     On further reading, I learnt that the book's initial owner was my uncle (mom's older brother). It is a fifth edition (March, 1978) by Sr Sophia A.C.

Accommodation Theory

Accommodation theory states that when people talk to each other, they adjust their behavior and manner of speech to take account of, "to accommodate", the topic, the circumstances, and the other people engaged with them in the conversation. For example: people talk more slowly to foreigners and use baby talk when interacting with infants. The way people communicate with each other is central to the kind of social interaction at issue.

Thus, friends and lovers, and especially people in the process of becoming friends and lovers, make every effort to converge in manner, accent, tone and topic. Someone wishing to keep his distance or disagree will always adopt a manner of speaking, expressing differently from that of the other party.

These ideas matter because it is clear that difficulties experienced by immigrants and foreigners everwhere arise in part from the difference of their speech mannerisms, and the limits tot their ability to 'converge' with native speakers when trying to communicate. As world globalizes further at an increasingly rapid pace, and as a major migrations of people especially from the southern to the northern hemisphere continue, so the problems and too often frictions increase: accommodation theory, for all its surface simplicity, gives insights into how miscommunication  and misinterpretation happen and how matters can be improved.

Accommodation theory was devised in the early 1970's by Howard Giles, whose first insights into communication came while working in a medical clinic in Wales. He wrote "the patients I took to the physicians just had to open their mouths and speak and I could predict the manner in which the physicians were going to deal with them." The ideas he developed have been applied by advertisers and party political researchers in thinking about the effective ways of getting the message across the target audience, and by business management training, advising clients on how to behave in foreign countries.

The limits of accommodation theory are illustrated by the latter. Studies found that efforts used by western businessmen who over accommodated in order to please or partners among Japanese businessmen were in fact counterproductive. The danger is that behaviour which appears to involve mimicry of others can look like mockery; in the Japanese case the businessmen from Japan preferred the foreigners to foreigners.

Accommodation theory is of particular value among other things, thinking about ways of integrating immigrant communities into host communities, where integration is a term between assimilation and multiculturalism, just means providing a way for immigrants who to get along with the host communities to succeed economically. With mass immigration has come the realization that it is ineffective to expect immigrants to do all accommodation, and that has resulted in host community adjustments to take account of linguistic and cultural factors.

The Winds

    "when the winds of change are blowing, you need to know which way and how fast"

This is an article from a magazine. Our life is full of ups and downs. We don't know what has happened and what is happening the next. We are not aware of it. There will be goods and bad in life. The winds may be strong as storm ,or light as breeze. How ever the wind blows they are gods plans. Just know them and go that way. Don't strike for it or grumble for it. If god has given any situations to face, He will give you the grace also. Just face it bravely . Walk the way along.