Mac under the Mango tree

My dear social friends, brothers and sisters ...  Vanakkam, Namaste. Good day!. I trust everyone is doing well..  Life in USA is getting busier and busier, which is good. Recently I had an opportunity to visit Mexico. This was my first visit to Mexico. In this blog, I am going to share my experience as a fist time visitor to this country. First of all, special THANKS to my colleagues who took care of our team really well.  Kudos to them, and thankful for ever. Starting from immigration:   The queue was quite high, and it took more than 2+ hours for me to clear immigration. I was not surprised, since it takes similar time for us these days in US as well.    OK – all clear from immigration. Got into taxi, and heading towards the hotel…   I started observing Mexico City, commute behaviors and traffic pattern.   After few minutes, yes, it is very clear pattern. I could say, it is very similar to India. Not surprised too. :)...

My dear social friends, brothers and sisters ...  Vanakkam, Namaste. I trust everyone is doing well.. This blog is about latest updates on Drumstick season from my farm. I am continuing from my previous blog update about "drumstick vegetable". This month, I visited my farm and spent sometime there.     I do have around 500 trees and still trying to make it to 1000 in couple years. :) Usually we get good yielding around summer time around Southern India.  In July, August and September the temperature is consistently around 90+. You could see from below picture the number of drumstick vegetables from one tree. You could see from below picture the number of flowers, white in color, from one tree. Our soil is RED soil and you could see the plantation from below pictures. We give enough spaces between trees so that it could grow. Trees are watered through drip irrigation ways these days.  These trees take little water only.  They survived last year drought in...

My dear social friends, brothers and sisters ...  Vanakkam, Namaste. I trust everyone is doing well.. This blog is about libraries, and my personal experience in USA public libraries.   First few months in USA, many people told me about various good things about the libraries in USA. I never took that seriously, and never paid too much attention to that. Since I have seen various libraries in hometown and had a preset mind . However, one day we had to go there due to my kid’s school assignment activity. The assignment topic was library. I decided to take them to nearby “Fremont Public Library”, so that they feel about library and experience the same .   Yes, it was a stunning and amazing experience.   Ahh, no, we wasted few months already in USA. It is a public library and totally shocked by the ambience.   My kids got free membership with their school ID cards. After that, we started going regularly during every weekend.   My memory started jogging a...

 My dear social friends, brothers and sisters ...  Vanakkam, Namaste. I trust everyone is doing well.. Happy Fathers day to everyone... Thinking about myself as daddy.. Writing a poem, after a long time with some energy....This is about fathers day... Writing this in my mother-tongue - TAMIL....   ஆகாய பயணம், அது ஒரு அழகான பயணம், ஆகாய பயணம், ஆம், அது ஒரு அமைதியான பயணம், ஆகாய பயணம், ஆம், அது ஒரு அனுபவ பயணம், ஏர்பஸ் 380, அது ஒரு அழகான விமானம், வளைகுடாவில் ஏறினேன், வங்காள விரிகுடா செல்ல, அமைதியை எதிர்பார்த்தேன், ஆனால் ஆண்டவன் அனுபவிக்க சொன்னான் .. தந்தை என்ற மந்திரத்தை ... இதோ.. இங்கே நடக்க சென்றேன் விமானத்துக்குள் .. நண்பனை கண்டேன் ... தந்தையின் அறுபதாம் கல்யாணம் என்றான்,  அதனால் செல்கிறான் என்றான்.. தந்தை தாயை பற்றி சொன்னான்..  மகிழ்ச்சி .. தந்தை பற்றி சொன்னான்..தந்தையின் அமெரிக்கா பயணம் பற்றி சொன்னான் .... மகிழ்ச்சி நடக்க சென்றேன் விமானத்துக்குள் .. நண்பனை கண்டேன் ... தந்தை தவறினார் என்றான்,  அதனால் செல்கிறான் என்றான்.. தந்தை பற்றி சொன்னான்.. கண்ணீர் விட்...

My dear social friends, brothers and sisters ...  Vanakkam, Namaste and good day!... This is yet another different type of blog... Just sharing my spiritual experience here in USA. My iPhone was giving many reminders to upgrade, though I was rescheduling again and again.. Finally, it was a forced day for me, and I had no other choice. Yes, I had to upgrade, but you know what, I had to restart and reset couple times to adjust, YES, it worked seamlessly after that.... APPLE is smart, no doubts on that. This is common these days, isnt it ?.. just a reset and restart, which I delayed. After the upgrade, I am seeing lot of new features and cool stuff...  But, the journey was postponed by me..  Isn't it?. In Journey of LIFE, we do the same. Most of the times we have to upgrade ourselves, or we will be forced. In every upgrade, we have to go through a RESET.  What is that? But, if you know what "resets" you every week or every month, it gives a different ...

My dear social friends, brothers and sisters ...  Vanakkam, Namaste and good day!. In this blog, I will share my real world experiencing both drought and drain as a farmer...This blog is about drought and drains that we experienced last year....  Global warming is alarming, and it is time to act on, rather than being reactive always... Background:  Last year we had severe drought in our area. It was really worst, i.e. around 4 to 6 months: i.e. from June till October, it was really worse. People had to search for drinking water and preserve for few days till they got again. In farm, we had very little water only. Existing 100+ feet well drained out completely, and all the bore-wells or boreholes ran out of water. Hence, it was very tough to maintain the farm. You could see a dying mango tree in below picture ...   During this drought period, we lost many big mango trees.  They were planted by my father. These trees were growing along with us. When we were kids, ...

My dear social friends, brothers and sisters ...  Vanakkam, Namaste and good day!. Last month, I visited India and I will share some interesting experiences from that. This blog is about pazhamkanji or pazhayasoru or pazhayakanji.  Have you heard about this?. It is tough to pronounce for sure.  This is one of our traditional food, and I am very glad to see this back. What is Kanji? - Kanji is a popular dish in the state of Tamil Nadu. In old days, among the daily working classes, it is a staple nourishing breakfast dish, although consumed often for lunch.  Whoever coming to work in farm, always used to have this for both breakfast and lunch with few different side dishes.  Not only farm workers, I have seen this with daily construction workers too. Whenever we were kids, we used to have the same for breakfast at farm along with farm workers. For a surprise, I saw this in all big hotels this time and I could not believe the same. :) Pazhamkanji or pazhayasoru o...