நெனச்ச மாதிரியே "நான் கடவுள்" பத்தி ஒரு scoop ...sify ல....
கிளைமாக்ஸ் ல ஆர்யா வந்து பூஜாவோட dead body ய சாப்டுறாராம்.
ஏன் இப்டி...
நம்ம சூர்யா அதுக்கு அப்றோம் நெறைய படத்துல அழகா வந்தாலும், பிதா மகன் ல கடைசில சாக்கு உள்ள இருந்து, விகாரமா வருவாரே பிணமா, அந்த மூஞ்சி மறக்க மாட்டேன்குது....இதுல அடுத்தது இப்டி ஒண்ணு ...
ரெண்டு வருட உழைப்பு, பணம், மூளை, இதெல்லாம் வீணா ஆயிட கூடாதுன்னு உங்க படம் நல்ல ஓடனும் னு தோணினாலும், இந்த மாறி கிளைமாக்ஸ் லாம் ரொம்ப ஓவருங்கோ.

அரசாங்கம் ஒரு follow-up

இத படிச்சுட்டு எனக்கும் எங்க வீட்டு அய்யாக்கும் நடந்த ஒரு குட்டி சம்பாஷனை.

அய்யா : You Crazy? (remo மாதிரி படிக்கவும்)but I really enjoyed it.
நான்: என்னை விஜயகாந்த் அளவுக்கு இது வரைக்கும் யாருமே சிரிக்க வெச்சது இல்ல...I owe him something.
அய்யா: அப்போ next election ல அவருக்கு vote போட்டுடு.
நான்: :-))))))))))))

Arjun's Vocabulary

Arjun is running 16th month and is talking tooooooooooooo muchhhhhhhhhh.
Just thought of compiling his vocabulary.
Cheese, Sease - Cheese.
Bee - Baby
Ka - Car
hevoo - hello, Phone, mobile.
Aajee - Aachi(grandma)
Thatha - thatha (grandpa)
Ammu, Ammi, Amma - Amma (mom)
Appa - Appa(Father, this is so proper from day one)
Akka - Akka (sister)
peppa - periappa
baabaa - mama
baambaa - car horn
iggi -idli, idli plate,idli cooker
kuchi - bread stick
yaaaaaaaannnnnn - meo, cat
puppy -puppy, dog(very proper puppy)
happy - happy, happy birthday doll( a very prper happpppppy)
poo - flower
ha -horse
yiya - nila (moon)
koko -hen, cock
kaka, aa aa - crow
ish - fish
athai - athai (aunty)
kuvi - kuruvi(sparrow)
cc - cd
oogy - oh dear
ooggy ooggy - boogy woogy
papa - papa (baby)
ok - ok
pape -paper
peepaa -tea pot
aashee - aasai (desire)
baa - ball
aafee -coffee
paa -paal (milk)
caanfee -corn flakes
aappuu -apple
pee -pear
opi -open
ko -close
poppi -thoppi(cap)
pappy -chapathi
goo -groot(swedish name for porridge)



and some more,will update as I remember.

Salmon மீன் வறுவல்

"என்ன இன்னைக்கு fish fry எப்டி இருக்குன்னு சொல்லவே இல்ல...?"
"ஒவ்வொரு வாட்டியுமா சொல்ல முடியும்? இப்போல்லாம் தான் நீ standard ஆ ரொம்ப நல்லா வெக்குறியே???"

அட அப்படியா ......கால் தரையில நிக்காம பறக்க ஆரம்பிச்சுடுச்சு....

ஓ! இதான் நிலாவா......பறந்து அவ்ளோ தூரமா வந்துட்டேன்....??

அப்டியே flash back , மூணு வருஷம் முன்னாடி போய்,

"இதான் உங்க ஊருல வெங்காய சட்னி யா?? எனக்கு பொடி வெச்சுடு"
"நான் ஆபீஸ் லேயே லஞ்ச் (மட்டுமாவது ஒழுங்கா) சாப்ட்டுக்றேன்"

இதெல்லாம் நெனச்சு பாத்து கீழ எறங்கிட்டேன்....

கல்யாணம் ஆனா புதுசுல ஒவ்வொரு சாப்பாடு டைம் லயும் பெரிய டென்ஷன் எனக்கு.....ஏன்னா என் சமையல் அவருக்கு அவ்ளோவா, இல்ல இல்ல அவ்ளோவும் புடிக்கலை...

அப்படி இருந்த நான் ....எப்புடி ஆயிட்டேன்...(படிக்க...பதிவின் முதல் மூன்று வரிகள்)

எனக்கு நல்ல பெயர் வாங்கி குடுத்த சில recipes இங்க share பண்ண படும்.

தேவையான பொருள்கள்:



மீன் துண்டுகள்.(படத்தில் இருப்பது salmon fish),
மிளகாய் தூள் 1ஸ்பூன்
மஞ்சள் தூள் ½ஸ்பூன்
மல்லி தூள் 1ஸ்பூன்
சீரக பொடி, மிளகு பொடி, சோம்பு பொடி தலா ½ஸ்பூன்
உப்பு தேவையான அளவு
புளி கரைசல் நீர்க்க கரைத்து கொள்ளவும்.

எல்லா பொடி வகைகளையும் கலந்து புளி கரைசல் ஊற்றி பிசைந்து அதை மீன் துண்டுகளில் தடவி முப்பது நிமிடங்கள் ஊற வைக்கவும்.


செய்முறை

செய்முறை பெரிசா இல்ல...கடாய் ல எண்ணெய் விட்டு, காய்ந்தவுடன் மீன் துண்டுகளை அதில் போட்டு, அடுப்பை sim ல வெச்சு, மீன் துண்டுகளை திருப்பி திருப்பி விட்டு பொரிந்தவுடன் எடுக்கவும்.



குறிப்பு:
salmon இயல்பிலேயே சுவை மிகுந்தது....அதனால இந்த simple மசாலா உபயோகித்து என்னை போன்ற அரை வேக்காடு சமையல் காரர்கள் கூட நல்ல பெயர் வாங்கலாம், நம்ம ஊருல வஞ்சிர மீன் கிட்ட தட்ட இதே போல் சுவையாக இருக்கும்.
salmon மீன் நிறைய கொழுப்பு சத்து மிகுந்தது. அதனால் fry பண்றப்போ அதுவே நிறைய oil release பண்ணும். அதனால நம்ம ரொம்ப குறைவான எண்ணையில் பொரித்தால் போதும். அடி கனமான வாணலியில், குறைந்த தீயில், olive oil இல் பொரித்தால் உடல் நலனையும் கருத்தில் கொண்டதாக அமையும்.
salmon பொரிந்து விட்டதானால் மடல் மடலாக பிரிந்து வரும், அது தான் எடுப்பதற்கு சரியான பக்குவம்.
இந்த recipe, நம்ம ஊரு மீன் வகைகளில் வஞ்சிர மீன் க்கு மட்டுமே பொருந்தும் என்று நினைக்குறேன். மற்ற மீன்களுக்கு மசாலா சற்று அதிகமாக தேங்காய்,வெங்காயம் எல்லாம் அரைத்து செய்ய வேண்டும். அதை பற்றிய குறிப்பு விரைவில்.

Arasangam - A great stress reliever

I have never seen such a super comedy movie before.
Such a great stress reliever, one would surely get stomach pain because of the overdose of comedy scenes...

In one scene Captain would catch Sriman from villain gang and he would ask him,"nee yaru, un nettuwork enna?"

Then he tells him,"nee sollamaleye unkitta irunthu tekkunology moolama unmaiya varavazhaika mudiyum"

Captain calls his friend manoj throughout the film as 'manoju'.

Captain gives a lecture to his students about seismic effect, receiving antenna, encryption decryption...mudiyalai da samy.

He is a criminologist in the movie...throughout the movie he refers himself as 'kiruminologist'.

Captain says 'anticlare war', he actually meant 'an undeclared war'.

Height is the way villain decides to kill Vijaykanth. Villain ties captain and opens up a vellai panni kootam to attack captain and captain escapes from it and in the next scene villain refers to captain as phoenix bird to have managed to escape.This is inspite of him being an international level terrorist planning bomb blasts etc.

Ultimate climax,Villain sets a bomb in such a way that he has to do a retina authorisation to diffuse the bomb and the bomb is set to blast in a nuclear boiler area which would cause a Hiroshima kinda effect to India(kanna katudhu enaku)...Captain takes the bomb in one hand and holds Villain in the other hand and shows the bomb at villain's face for retina authorisation.Villain closes his eyes to avoid being authorised. wow wow what a thoughtul scene.

Vaccinations - A Study

Arjun was born in Denmark and travelled to India and then relocated to Sweden.
I was greatly confused about his vaccination schedules. And I have been receiving questions from my friends, who are new mothers, whose children are born abroad, and travelling/relocating to India or the other way, about the same. I have been questioned by a fellow traveller in the flight also about this. I have discussed quite a lot with doctors in India, Denmark and Sweden and also read about this in the web and I capture my learnings here for the betterment of fellow mothers and also my future reference.

The vaccinations are more or less similar in India, Sweden and Denmark except that there are some extra ones in India. Also the age at which they vaccinate in India is different.

Let me state the abbreviations the doctors use.

D - diphtheria
P - wooping cough
T - Tetanus
OPV/IPV - Oral Polio Vaccine / injectable Polio Vaccine
Hib - Influenza Type B(Known as meningitis in the Europe, which is actually the name of the disease)
MMR - Mums, Measels, Rubella
Hep B - Hepatitis B


A child born in India is given BCG at birth.This is a vaccination against tuberculosis, commonly known T.B and also she is given the first dosage of hep B vaccination at 2 weeks.

In India, there are two types of injections available.
Easy four and Easy five.

Easy four: DPT+Hib
Easy five: DPT+Hib+Hep B

Its so easy that one need not receive too many pricks, but just one prick but all the four/five vaccines. In our childhood, it was known as 'Triple Antigen-Muthaduppu oosi' which was DPT.

Ideally a kid must receive three doses of DPT, Hep B and Hib,by one year.

So a kid that received BCG and Hep B respectively at birth and 2 weeks, will receive one easy five when 45days old, one more easy five at 75 days and one easy four at 105days old, which makes 3 doses of DPT, Hep B and Hib. And each vaccination is also associated with a OPV.Now a days they recommend one dosage of IPV atleast.The doctors make sure each vaccine is given at one month interval at the least.

The same scenario is handled a bit differently in Denmark and Sweden.They dont give the vaccinations at such young age.The first vaccine itself start when the child becomes three months old. In Denmark they claim that there is no Hep B virus and so there is no vaccination for that. But they dont have this easy four, easy five concepts. They prick twice, once for DPT+IPV and once for Hib, I mean meningitis.
And if you want to order Hep B yourself, then one more prick. And there is no BCG vaccine also.You need to order it yourself, if you want. And this DPT+IPV,Hib are repeated at 6 months and 1 year.
In Sweden also the vaccinations are given at 3 months, 6 months and one year but sweet people, just one prick for all the six, DPT+IPV+Hib+Hep B.
In Sweden, they also have BCG vaccine at 6 months old.

Now coming to MMR, in India they recommend a vaccination only for 'measels' at 9 months and a MMR vaccine at 15 months. But in Denmark and Sweden, they give only MMR at 18 months.

Say a child is travelling to India for a vacation before she is given MMR and she is older than 9 months, then its better she gets a measles vaccine as soon as she lands in India.

There are optional vaccinations for chicken pox at one year, typhoid and Hep A at 2 years in India.

So depending on where are you at what age, we must plan the vaccinations for our children.

I would like to add two things.
A reiteration that Hib and meningitis are one and the same. Why I reiterate, is because a friend of mine relocated from India to UK, when her son was one year old, that means he received 3 doses of Hib already, did not know they are the same, ended up giving three more doses of meningitis in UK.Ideally repeating the vaccine must not cause any issue, however it costs our kids one more prick and lots of pain.

And since all the three doses of DPT+OPV are given at so young age for Indian children, its recommended that they receive a DPT booster dose(triple antigen-muthaduppu oosi)+OPV at 18months and another booster of DPT at 5 years. But in Denmark and Sweden they give the DPT booster at 5years, as the children have received the third DPT+IPV dose itself at 1 year. Now, a case, which ideally triggered me to write this post, a friend of mine who is living in Denmark, who may probably relocate to India, who has a one year old son, she asked me about what all vaccinations she would have to give in India.
Since her son has received the third DPT dose itself at one year unlike kids in India who would receive the third dose when 105 days old, she has to discuss about whether to give a booster at 18 months or the booster is enough at 5 years old itself.

Chickenpox

Incidentally or coincidentally, I happened to have few discussions and readings about this of late. Just capturing the learnings here.

Its defined as the following.
'An acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body'.

I live in Sweden and this HVZ virus seems quite common here. I was alarmed when our colleague Naveen and his 7 months old daughter got infected. Subsequently we travelled to India and I discussed with two paediatricians about giving the vaccination to Arjun. One of them practicing in a town nearer to my native village, 17 years of experience in Paediatrics,did not recommend the vaccine. The reason he stated was, "all my patients are from rural area and very poor, chicken pox vaccine is expensive(1600INR), this disease is not a dangerous one, it may occur just once in a lifetime, so I dont say this is a mandatory one". The other paediatrician is in Chennai and he instantly said, "go for it, as you say this virus is common in Sweden".

My friend Sushila stated, she read in a weekly that cleanliness can prevent this. But I dont agree. As per what I know, this virus can quickly spread via the air. If an infected person sneezes or coughs, and the one who gets exposed to it can get infected.

Ideally the vaccination must prevent this disease. But, my friend Sireesha's 2 years old son has got infected beyond being vaccinated. Her doctor answered her, "one in 100 children may get it, inspite of the vaccination". So, vaccination does not guarentee you 100%. And noramlly once someone gets infected by this virus, their body develops antibodies and hence becomes immune to the virus for lifetime. But I read in the web that some may get it more than once too.

And in India, we associate this with 'Goddes Amman', and all what we do in the name of God, actually prevents the virus to spread out and also decreses the intensity of the disease.
1.We restrict the infected one at home, we dont let visitors.
2.Neem leaves bed
3.Tender coconut drink
4.Once the boils start healing,give bath with turmeric water.

I feel the kids must get the vaccination and also we must practice cleanliness and we may prevent this.