A book that left me painful feelings

I completed the first novella of  'the mother i never knew' by Sudha Murthy.
I closed the book with deep pain in my heart.
And also it created strange feelings in my mind.

I felt very sad for Bhagavva and Shankar
I became a part of that story itself.
I could run with Venkatesh along all the way to Hubli and Mysore.
The characters of Shantha and Ravi left a deep pain in me.
I have met many such kind of characters in my life.

I felt that I read a nice story after long time.
Thanks to Sudha Murthy.

I have planned to start the other novella in the same book soon.
Will share my view on that too.

Till then, bye bye.

Happy weekend.

With Love,
Vaanadhi

Book: It happens for a Reason

I completed my reading of the book "It happens for a reason" by Preeti Shenoy
The way of story telling is really good.
The story was not a complete new thing.
Story is about a girl Vipasha Mishra, Vee to friends, who gets pregnant at very young age and decides to keep the baby.
She puts so much efforts to make her son Aryan, and she is searching for her man in life too.
She runs a Paw-factor which is a day care center for dogs and she has a part time job as a fitness instructor.
She has a crush with Saurabh who is a veterinary doctor, meanwhile she meets Aryan's father.
What is she going to decide? that is the climax.

 

I liked the way of story telling.

I did not get bored to read the story.

But what I felt is, Saurabh's character should have been given more importance.

There was no need for that character in this story I felt.

I did not get any feeling when Vee decides to leave Saurabh.

It was a good read for me.

Vaanadhi.

Book: Tuesdays with Morrie

I completed my reading of the book "Tuesdays with Morrie".
After reading continuous love stories from Indian authors, this was a great change for me.
It took so much time for me to feel the changes.
This book is a memoir by Mitch Albom.

I read this book, when my close one was in death bed, So It was really good.
This book is discussing about life and its importance.
It is a discussion between Mitch Albom and his professor Morrie who was in his final days.
I loved to read it.
It teaches values of life.
Good read..

Vaanadhi

Book : Love at Facebook

Recently , I read a book " Love @ Facebook" by Nikitha Singh.
I bought this book long back wondered by title.
Yes. I made that mistake again.
By seeing the title, Dinesh had told me that title looks odd.

I want to write why the title was interesting to me.
I am not a believer in virtual relationships.
I was not having an orkut,Facebook or any other such accounts till I graduated, even several years after I started working.
In one sudden day , I created an account in Facebook and started giving friend requests to all the people I was knowing at school,college and at work.
I started adding my favorites and few photos.
And people started criticizing.
Most of the time, if I see anyone's profile, my first visit would be their favorite books.
After some months, It was not much interesting and real to chat in FB or to put birthday wishes or to like some photos.
So I deleted my account.
Till now, I admire so many people and I call them if at all I want to talk.

Coming back to the book.
The title fascinated me as I can't think of getting a relationship in cyber world.
The story is about a young college girl Vatsala who meets a person in FB and tries to get a relationship with him.
The story revolves around her college life and friends.
It was little boring to me.
It was interesting to read about Ranchi as I haven't known before.
I completed reading just like that.

At present, I am reading a book "Tuesdays With Morrie"
It is interesting till now.

Happy weekend.

With Love,
Vaanadhi

Book : Love stories that touched my heart

I completed reading the book love stories that touched my heart edited by Ravinder Singh.
It took so much time to complete as I got bored on the subject.
It is a collection of short love stories selected through a contest.

Some stories were really amazing.
Most of them were failure stories. I really don't know what do I mean by successful love or unsuccessful love.
So I can say negative end instead of failure.
I personally liked some stories, A love story in reverse, God bless you my dear, The uncertainties of life and some more.
Every story had left a different feeling within me.
Nice collection of stories.
Have a happy week!!

With love,
Vaanadhi

Book : Journey Of Two Hearts

Today I completed my reading of the book "Journey Of Two Hearts" by Anuj Tiwari.
Just thought of putting a note about that.
It is a true romantic love story.
The story goes around the protoganist Anuj Tiwari who is an engineering student when the story starts.
He happens to talk to a girl 'Pakhi' whom he will consider as his life, after some days.
It is having negative climax.
The author has expressed his feelings (only his feelings).

Poetical expressions were good.
But for me, it did not gave any worthy feeling.
I think that I am bored of reading love subject.
But I have some 5 more books on the same.
Planning to give importance to other subjects as well.

Have a happy weekend ahead!!!

With Love,
Vaanadhi

Book: Nothing For You My Dear

I completed my reading of the book "Nothing For You My Dear.. Still I Love You"

The is about the male protagonist Avinash, who is a young working man.

The Story goes like this:

Avinash, a young working man meets a bride (Neha) with parents' compulsion, though he is not having any intention to get married.

He is trying to convince Neha to say "No" for him, to his parents.

She is asking the reason; He explains his life story to her.

This life story involves, his school and college life. In includes all his adventurous and mischievous things happened in life. In also includes a cute love story with his college senior "Lisha" which gives a tragic end to the story.

The beauty of Jaipur, Dehradun, Mussoorie and Ladakh was explained very nicely.

I visualized the beauty of the place, with my imagination when I was reading about the trip to Ladakh.

Nice story. Thanks to the Author Arpit Dugar.

- One small note, I want to put here. The reason why I bought this book is little funny and foolish. The author's birthday and my birthday are on the same date. So simply I wanted to read his thoughts. Done too. :-)

Monday is almost over.

This week is having 4 more days...

Have a happy week ahead.

With Love,
Vaanadhi

Book : The One You Cannot Have

I completed my reading of the novel "The One You Cannot Have" by Preeti Shenoy.

I really loved the story and narration.

Than "The Secret Wishlist", I like this now.

Story was really interesting, and narration takes us to turn pages unknowingly. This may be too much. But this is what I felt.

I personally like if any character of a story is either writer or journalist .. I really don't know why..

Story goes like this: Aman and Shruthi loved each other. Time makes them not to marry. Shruthi has married to Rishabh because of her situation.

They both struggle with the pain, even though they continue to go on and work.

After 2 years of enough struggle, Aman makes a move towards Anjali who is a journalist ( This was the character I completely loved in this story ). Aman decides to move on with Anjali, he happened to meet Shruthi. And what he decides is the climax...

It was amazing.. I wanted the same decision by Aman at the end...

Really nice...

I wanted to mention one thing..

Yesterday night ( It was midnight ), I was reading the book.. I was about to complete.. By reading the below sentence I started laughing...

Then my husband asked me and I told him to read and we both burst into laugh...

When a woman says, "There is something to talk about" you only have two options.

1. Tuck your tail between your legs and run as fast as you can.

I am not going to tell the second option, read in the novel... :-)




My husband told that he is agreeing with both the points :-)

I liked the articles written by Anjali ( Preeti's thoughts )..

Totally worth reading story...

Thank you Preeti for this nice book...

Whatever I am writing is not a review and its only my emotions...

Enjoy...

Happy week end!!!

With Love,
Vaanadhi

Book: Confessions Of A Page 3 Reporter

Last Night, I completed my reading of the book "Confessions of a Page 3 Reporter"

This book deals with life incidents of a Page 3 reporter Megha, who works for a daily newspaper named "Morning Post".

She talks clearly about the aspects of page 3 journalism. Why I am telling this is , I know very little things about journalism. But after reading this book, I felt a little difference in that.

She talks nicely about Politics in the industry, her superior who tries to demotivate or ensures no credit for her hard work.

She explains about her Boss, who is a rich and handsome person and makes her to fall in his trap, using her enthusiasm towards improvement in work.

Totally, It was a nice book and it made me to turn pages just like that.

I enjoyed reading this book.. This story was totally different environment for me to analyze...

Thanks to Megha Malhotra..

Another Life Story..

Last week, I read Ravinder Singh's latest book , "Like It Happened Yesterday"
As like while reading his second book, I had the same expectation for this too.
But Somehow I did not feel that much satisfied on what I expected.
First few chapters were OK kind...
For everyone childhood memories will always be good to remember, especially If we struggled hard to get a better position in life.. Same thing happened to the author also..
After 10th chapter, it was boring to read.. I felt there is nothing and did not understand what he is coming to say... After 180th page, it was a good change, because the topic was changed..
Its good only to have a open talk, but it should not be boring this way.. and that is what i felt..
Last chapter was good and inspiring..

I feel that the author can come up with some social thoughts and fictions..
I know that it is easy to comment and how it is hard to pen down the thoughts..
But it is an expectation from a reader..
Overall, It made me to remember my childhood and adolescent days.. It made me to remember how I worked hard to get a job and live happily..
Thanks to Ravinder Singh.

I hate week ends of month ends..
This week end will be a happy week end, first week end of the month na..
Really happy...
Enjoy the Life.. Its only one.. Live for your own interests...

With Love,
Vaanadhi.

Secret Wish List!!!

I wanted to read Preeti's "The Secret Wish List" for long time.
I have not got time, because of back to back travels.
At last i decided and i started reading in travel itself ( Generally I don't read in travel)
Yesterday, I completed reading.
The story is about a girl's complete life.
A school girl, Dhiksha, has made a normal mistake and how that changes her life completely, this is the story.
I really liked the concept of making Secret Wish List for one self.
I also liked the concept of following heart, which mostly we don't do everytime.
I can't imagine in real world whether the character Sandeep can exist. If so, it is really horrible.

The Cover Page was Really Awesome. Here it is...

Thanks to Preeti for giving such nice thoughts...
Different way of thinking..

Enjoy...

With Love,
Vaanadhi

No Words To Say :-(

I started reading a book "The Last Lecture".
Generally i will not read any review before buying any type of book, i have a curiosity to read and know the taste of it by myself.
Sameway i had bought this book also.
After reading first 10 pages, i felt really sad and did not know whether to continue or not.
But the way of writing made me to continue, so i did the same.
After that in some places i forgot that a cancer patient has written that. That much he had tried to make it simple and fun.
I wanted not to cry while completing, but i couldn't help myself in the last but one chapter "Jai and Me", when she told "Please don't die". Tears were coming down from my eyes.
I really wonder how he had that much optimistic view on life even though he had known his end of life.
Hats-Off Randy.
Even though its been a long time, i am praying for the wellness of Jai,Dylan,Logan and chloe and wishing them all the very best to lead their life perfectly.
I am praying for wellness of all the kids in the world who has lost their parents.
This book has changed my perception towards life.

I like his approaches as a professor as well.
He has told "If have to die, i am comfortable by having "Alice" as a professional Legacy". (Alice is the software which helps students to learn programming in 3D environment and Randy was part of its development.)

I liked the complete chapter - "A recovering jerk"

He has written in the starting page about why he has given this textual legacy for his kids.
"If I were a painter, I would have painted for them, If were a musician i would have composed music, But I am a lecturer, So I lectured"

The title "An Injured Lion still wants to roar" itself hurted me more.

I really wanted to put some of his quotes and the things he explained.

"Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less time than you think"

"We cannot change the cards we dealt, just how we play the hand"

He told that he has got this from his father"Never make a decision untill you have to"

"Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bed room, Let them do it, It will be ok. Don't worry about the resale value of the house"

"People are more important than things"

"If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you will be surprised by how well things can work out"

"Treat the disease, not the symptoms"

"Go on those trips you have always wanted to take"

"Time must be explicitly managed like money"

"You can always change your plan, but if you have only one"

"Ask yourself: Are spending time with right things?"

"Develop a Good Filing System"

"The Number one Goal of teacher should be to help students learn how to learn"

But Randy's goal was "To help students learn how to judge themselves"

"Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity"

"Half-hearted or insincere apologies are often worse than not apologizing at all because recepients find them insulting"

If i could give only three words of advice, then it will be "Tell the truth"

"If you want something bad enough Never give up"

Thats it... Everyone are giving advices.. but it depends on us whether we have to follow it or not... but i really feel these words are worthy and told by a person who did not want any profit out of these words..
May be, if Randy have not got cancer, his kids might have not understood him this much, everything has a positive side as he said,i am taking a positive side of his life.

Please check this link for more details about The last lecture which i got it by searching in websites after reading this book.

As i always say, Life is for a small amount of time. Why we need to waste time in unwanted things?
Do whatever you like to do.. Enjoy... this minute will not come again...

With Love,
Vaanadhi

Perception changes, really :-)

Didn't understand the meaning of the title na?
At last i have completed my reading of the book "Why men don't listen and women can't read maps"
After reading this book, i felt my perception towards understanding the opposite gender have taken a different view.

Generally i love to read novels, and i love so much to read novels which are having positive ending and nothing in harm, at least the climax should be positive one. Otherwise, it will give a strange feeling to my mind which will stay for longer time.
But these types of books ( books which give advices) are really difficult for me to read. Generally i don't like to read if i got irritation in starting pages.

I don't really know how i started reading this book. Actually my team mate suggested this to me.
But really it took much time to complete this. I was not able to throw the book away in some pages, because it was interesting too.
Only thing is that, i did not like the statistical analysis and survey which were talked in this book.

Other than that, it was really nice and it made me to smile in so many places, because it talked about reality.

 I started observing the characteristics of myself and my husband's while reading the book, and ya.. there were so much i was able to relate with..

Totally the authors Allan and Barbara did really a nice job which helps us to understand the nature about the opposite gender.

I wanted to put some points which i really liked in this book.

Something which left a smile in my face:

1. This book is dedicated to all the men and women who have ever sat up at 2 am pulling their hair out as they plead with their partners, 'But why don't you understand?'

2. Survival was difficult but the relationship was easy in olden days - Ya they never ended up in court.

3. When a man stops his car to read a street directory, what's the first thing he does with his
radio? He turns it down! Most women can't understand why this happens. She can read while listening
and talking so why can't he? Why does he insist on turning down the TV when the telephone rings? 'When
he's reading the newspaper or watching TV, why can't he hear what I've just told him?' is a lament that has
been made by every woman in the world at some time. The answer is that a man's brain is configured for one
thing at a time because of fewer connecting fibers between the left and right hemispheres, and a more
compartmentalized brain. Take a brain scan of his head when he's reading, and you'll find he is virtually deaf.

4. One woman told us that if she is angry with her husband, she talks to him while he is hammering a nail!- Nice Revenge na :)

5. Boys love their toys. This is why 99% of all patents are registered by men. Girls love to play with toys too but usually lose interest by age 12 as they begin to grow into young women. Men never lose their obsession for impractical, spatially-related toys - they just spend a lot more on them. They love miniature pocket TVs, mobile phones shaped like cars, computer and video games, digital cameras, complicated gadgets, lights that go off or on by voice command and anything that has an engine. If it beeps, blinks and needs at least six D-cell batteries, most men want one.

6. While eating,When the bill arrives, the women calculate who had what. The men all throw $100 on the table indicating they want to pay so they can grab the spotlight, each pretending that they really don't want the change.

Helpful for Men to understand Women:

1. Women can always find the missing set of car keys, but rarely the most direct route to their destination.

2. A woman knows her children's friends, hopes, dreams, romances, secret fears, what they are thinking, how they are feeling and, usually, what mischief they are plotting. Men are vaguely aware of some short people also living in the house.

3. For centuries women were burned at the stake for possessing 'supernatural powers'. These included the ability to predict outcomes of relationships, spot liars, talk to animals and uncover the truth.

4. Most men, if they're going to lie to a woman, would be far better off doing it over the phone, in a letter or with all the lights off, and a blanket over their head.

5. Women have superior sensitivity in differentiating tone changes in voice volume and pitch. This enables them to hear emotional changes in children and adults. This ability goes a long way to explaining the women's phrase, 'Don't use that tone of voice with me!' when arguing with men and boys. Most males don't have a clue what she's talking about.

6. The point of the woman's talk is to talk. But the man sees her continual talk about problems as a plea for
solutions. With his analytical brain, he continually interrupts her. When a woman is speaking her unused words at the end of the day, she doesn't want interruptions with solutions to her problems.

7. If a woman is talking to you a lot, she likes you. If she's not talking to you, you're in trouble.


8. Men need to understand that indirect talk is part of a woman's wiring and they should not get upset about it.

9.Women don't want solutions, they just want to talk about things and for someone to listen. When you're dealing with an upset woman, don't offer solutions or invalidate her feelings - just show her you're listening.

Helpful for Women to understand Men:

1. Men can never find a pair of socks but their CDs are in alphabetical order.

2. If a woman is out driving and gets lost, she'll stop and ask for directions. To a man, this is a sign of weakness. He'll drive round in circles for hours, muttering things like, 'I've found a new way to get there' or 'I'm in the general area' and 'Hey, I recognize that petrol station!' 

3. A woman's brain is configured for multitasking performance. She can do several unrelated things at the
same time, and her brain is never disengaged, it's always active. She can talk on a telephone, at the same
time as cooking a new recipe and watching television. Or she can drive a car, put on make-up and listen to the radio while talking on a hands-free telephone. But if a man is cooking a recipe and you talk to him, he is likely to become angry because he can't follow the written instructions and listen at the same time.

4.A man finds it difficult to say it with words. Buying a card is never a problem for a man, it's what to write inside that stumps him. Men often choose greetings cards with plenty of words inside. That way, there's less space for them to write.

5.The first rule of talking to a man: Keep it simple! Give him only one thing at a time to think about.

6. Men may be able to find their way from A to B via a maze of back streets, but put them in the middle of a group of women discussing a number of topics at the same time, and they get completely lost.

7. Men take turns talking, so when a man is having his turn, let him have it. 'Stop interrupting me!' is shouted by men at women everywhere and in every language. A man's sentences are solution-oriented and he needs to get to the end of the sentence, otherwise the conversation seems pointless. He can't multi-track various points at different times in the conversation and he views anyone else doing it as impolite or scatterbrained. This is a foreign concept to a woman.

8. If you are a woman raising a son or have men in your life, you need to understand that while they have excellent spatial ability, most can still only do one thing at a time. Most need help to organize their homework, diary and life in order to be effective boys and men. The organizational skills come more naturally to girls and women.

9.Don't offer a man advice unless be asks for it. Tell him you have confidence in his ability to work things out.
10. To motivate a man to go shopping, give him clear criteria - colours, sizes, brands, styles - and tell him where you will shop and for how long. With clear objectives (even if you've invented them), you'll be
amazed at a man's shopping enthusiasm.

Comparison:

1. Under pressure, men drink alcohol and invade other countries; women eat chocolate and go shopping.

2. Women criticize men for being insensitive, uncaring,not listening, not being warm and compassionate, not
talking, not giving enough love, not being committed to relationships, wanting to have sex rather than make
love, turning the temperature down, and leaving the toilet seat up.Men criticize women about their driving, for not being able to read street directories, for turning maps upside down, for their lack of a sense of direction, for talking too much without getting to the point, for not initiating sex often enough, turning the temperature up, and for leaving the toilet seat down.

3.Women have wider peripheral vision, men have tunnel vision.

4. Architectural plan of a house is seen two-dimensionally by a female brain, whereas a male brain can see it three dimensionally, that is, men can see depth. Most men can see how a building would look as a finished house. 

5. Most women can brush their teeth while walking and talking on several topics. They can make up-and down strokes with the toothbrush at the same time as polishing a table using a circular movement with the other hand. Most men find this very difficult, if not impossible. When men brush their teeth, their mono-tracked brain means they focus entirely on that single task. They all stand square to the basin, feet 30cm apart, body bent over the sink, moving their head back and forth against the brush, usually to the speed of the water.

6. Not only do girls start speaking earlier than boys but a three-year-old girl has nearly twice the vocabulary of a three-year-old boy, with her speech almost 100% comprehensible. Speech pathologists are kept busy with parents bringing young boys in for therapy with the same complaint: 'He can't speak properly. ' If the boy has an older sister, this speech difference is even more noticeable, particularly as older sisters and mothers frequently talk for their sons. Ask a five-year-old boy, 'How are you?' and his mother or
sister answers, 'He's fine, thanks'. Mothers, daughters, and older sisters often speak on behalf of
the males in their family.

7. Male brains are highly compartmentalized and have the ability to separate and store information. At the end of a day full of problems, a man's mono-tracking brain can file them all away. The female brain does not store information in this way - the problems just keep going around and around in her head. Men can mentally index their problems and put them on hold. Women churn. The only way a woman gets rid of her problems from her mind is by talking about them to acknowledge them. Therefore, when a woman talks at the end of the day, her objective is to discharge the problems, not to find conclusions or solutions. She might not be so expert at humiliating a man with a well placed barb, but she could hit him with a frying pan from a distance of 10 meters.

8.When women sit together to watch a movie on TV, they usually talk simultaneously about a variety of subjects, including children, men, careers and what's happening in their lives. When groups of men and women watch a movie together, the men usually end up telling the women to shut up. Men can either talk or watch the screen - they can't do both - and they don't understand that women can. Besides, women consider that the point of all getting together is to have a good time and develop relationships - not just to sit there like couch potatoes staring at the screen.

9. Indirect talk builds rapport among women - but it often doesn't work with men because they
don't understand the rules.

10. Indirect speech may be excellent for building relationships but, unfortunately, that benefit may pale into insignificance if cars or planes end up crashing when the driver or pilot is unclear about what is being said.
Indirect speech usually includes a lot of qualifiers such as 'kind of, 'sort of and 'a bit'. Imagine if Winston Churchill had used indirect speech to try to motivate the Allies against the threat from Hitler. It wouldn't have sounded quite the same. 'We will fight them on the beaches - kind of - we will fight them a bit in the fields - we will never, sort of, surrender. ' They might even have ended up losing the war.

11. When a woman uses indirect speech with another woman there is never a problem - women are
sensitive to picking up the real meaning. It can, however, be disastrous using it with men. Men use
direct speech and take words literally. But with patience and practice, men and women can learn to understand one another. Men's sentences are short, direct, solution-oriented and to the point, drawing on a broader vocabulary and peppered with facts. They use quantifiers such as 'none', 'never' and 'absolutely'. This kind of speech helps close business deals quickly and efficiently, and is a means of asserting authority over others. When men use such direct speech in their social relationships, it often makes them appear abrupt and rude.

12. To argue successfully, a man needs to understand that a woman will use words that she doesn't really mean, so he shouldn't take them literally or define them. Take, for example, when a woman says, 'If I sat next to a woman who was wearing the identical dress, I'd just die! There's nothing worse!' She doesn't really mean that there is nothing worse or that she really expects to die, but a man's literal mind may respond with, 'No, you won't die, there are worse things than that!' which sounds sarcastic to a woman. By the same token, however, a woman needs to learn that she'll have to argue logically with a man if she wants to win and only give him one thought at a time. And women should never multi-track in an argument.

13. Boys like things, girls like people. Girls want relationships and cooperation, boys want power and status.

14. Give a four-year-old girl a teddy bear or toy and she'll make it her best friend; give it to a boy and he'll dismember it to see how it works, leave it in pieces and then move on to the next.

15. If a man completely shuts off, let him do it, he'll be fine. If a woman shuts off, there's trouble brewing and it's time for deep discussion. A woman may cry at being insulted because an insult is usually emotionally charged but a man may not even be aware that he has been insulted. It literally doesn't mean much to him.


16. Male sex drive is like a microwave - it ignites instantly and operates at full capacity within seconds, and can be turned off just as quickly when the meal is cooked. Women's sex drive is like an electric oven - it heats slowly to its top temperature and takes a lot longer to cool down.

17. A woman's sex drive is significantly affected by events in her life. If she hates her job, she has a really
demanding project at work, the mortgage repayments have just doubled, the kids are sick, she was drenched in the rain or the dog ran away, sex will not even be a consideration. All she can think about is going to bed and sleeping. When the same events happen to a man, he sees sex as a sleeping pill - a way of releasing the built-up tensions of the day. So, at the end of the day, he puts the hard word on the woman, she calls him an insensitive moron, he calls her frigid and he gets to sleep on the couch. Most men don't understand this difference. He may have been a perfect gentleman all day but she refuses sex because she's still unhappy that he insulted her mother two weeks ago.

Information:

1. There are more left-handed women than men and 90% of all people are right-handed.

2. If you are presenting an idea to a mixed group of men and women, it's safer to use a male speaking structure to make your points. Both sexes can follow 'man-talk' but men have difficulty following a woman's multitracked conversations and can quickly lose interest.

3. If a woman is unhappy in her relationships, she can't concentrate on her work. If a man is unhappy at
work he can't focus on his relationships. When a woman is upset she will talk emotionally
to her friends, but an upset man will rebuild a motor or fix a leaking tap.
To prove his love for her, he climbed the highest mountain, swam the deepest ocean, and crossed the widest desert. But she left him - he was never home.

4. A man's biological urge is to provide for a woman and her appreciation of his efforts confirms his success. If she is happy, he feels fulfilled. If she is not happy he feels that he is a failure because he believes he can't provide enough.Men constantly say to their friends, 'I can never make her happy,' and this can be sufficient motivation for a man to leave a relationship for another woman who seems happy with what he can provide.
A woman leaves a man not because she is unhappy with what he can provide, but because she is emotionally unfulfilled. She wants love, romance and conversation. He needs to be told by a woman that he is successful at what he does and what he can provide is fine. But a man needs to be romantic and, most of all, listen when a woman talks, without offering solutions.

5. It's not that men don't want to romance women, it's just that they don't understand its importance to women.


6.Men and women are different. Not better or worse - but different. Science knows it, but political correctness does everything it can to deny it.
More than one in three women takes nine days off each year due to stress.
Most women also said that if money was no object, they would prefer to be a homemaker or 'lady of leisure'
Women enjoy parenting more than men and, unfortunately, most men never get to appreciate it until they are grandparents.

These are all the points. It might be too much to put it here. But i really liked them and really wanted to put here. It helped me to change the way of understanding men.

And at last, i want to mention an incident while reading this book.

David: 'Where's the butter?'
Jan: 'It's in the fridge. '
David: 'I'm looking there, but I can't see any butter. '
Jan: 'Well it's there. I put it in ten minutes ago!'
David: 'No. You must have put it somewhere else.
There's definitely no butter in this fridge!'  

When i read about this topic, There is an incident happened in front of my eyes to prove that.
My husband was searching for a tablet which i told him to take from cup board. He couldn't identify... i took that in a second, smiled and told him "ya i understand... Its Men's nature... He got a pleasant shock, because he expected a fight or at least a shout on him" which happens always.
:-)

Its your life... Enjoy in all the ways u can...

Be Happy...

Vaanadhi

One More Weekend With Books

Last week end,i had time to read 2 books. Both are of the author "Sudha Murthy".

One is "The Day I stopped Drinking Milk".
This was disappointed me because i expected something more.
But this is the experiences of the author.
Some were really good. I liked "Secret lessons of life", "Story of three ponds" and "Bombay to Bangalore".
From these things, we can understand the helping nature of the author and her interests in travel and history.
Little learning was there.

And the other book is "Dollar Bahu". The story was not a different one, it was almost like so many stories whatever i have read in my mother tongue. But still i liked the story and explanation.
I liked Vinuta's character and its simplicity.
Sudha Murthy is always fond of the flowers "Bakula" and "Parijatha", i observed this in all her novels which i read. But still the explanation was nice.
In this also, i observed, mostly the beauty of north Karnataka was explained more.
I was thinking why she is explaining more about that. But even if i start to write something, first i will think from my native's perspective only. That is not because we want to boast. But we can explain nicely what we know about something in detail.

Thanks to Sudha Murthy for these books..

Happy Week ahead..

Regards,
Vaanadhi.

Thats the way we met

Last weekend i have read a novel named "That's the way we met"
For about 150 pages, there is no difference in story
In 50th page i was thinking, till now what had happened "Two loving couples are having good time"
In 100 th page  i was thinking, till now what had happened "Two loving couples are having good time"
In 150 th page also, i felt  "Two loving couples are having good time" :)
Till end, i dint understand the relationship between the title and the story.
The beauty of Mumbai and North India is explained nicely.

I think that this story is continuation of the author's first novel. I have to read and try to understand.

Anyhow, i had a good time.
This was long weekend for festival.

Diwali wishes!!!
Be happy and Enjoy.

Regards,
Vaanadhi

Gently Falls the Bakula

I enjoyed last week end, by reading the book "Gently Falls the Bakula" by Sudha Murthy.
The story and narration was very nice..
Story goes like, two young intelligent students are getting married by affection and how they are leading their life together..
Sudha Murthy's knowledge about Indian history is quite interesting i felt, that is what reflected through the character "Shrimathi".
I liked so many things in this story.. Liked Shrimathi's character so much..
Liked the narration about north Karnataka
I was not knowing why there is separate name called "North Karnataka", there was a historical, yes i can say, explanation for that..
After reading this novel, i am tempted to visit "North Karnataka". Need to plan for a trip.
And want to have that "Dharwad Peda". Though i am in Bangalore for around 5 years, i have never tasted this sweet.
Need to search in some sweet shops.

Other than these things, the subject of the story also was good, i can say it as very good..
How Indian ladies are sacrificing their interests and aims for their family and husband's success..
Kudos to all those great women, who is not even remembered as a helping person by the family members themselves.
Thanks to Sudha Mrthy.

Life is Simple and for a small time.. We need to live it for our own interests..
Be Happy!!

Regards,
Vaanadhi

Dustbin Baby

Yesterday, i completed my reading of the book "Dustbin Baby"
When i was having a look at one book stall, this book was there in kids' section.
I thought that this will come under kids' reading.. But after reading this book, understood not for kids.
This is a story about an abandoned little baby "April" who has been put into dustbin, as soon as she born.
"April" the name indicates her birth month.
The story goes as, "April" is trying to found out her real mother on her "14 th Birthday". She is going and seeing near to the dustbin, where she heard as she was taken from.
This is good illustration about the kids in "care houses", about their mentality, their difficulties.
I really liked this book and after long time, it gave me lots of social thoughts.

Thanks to Jacqueline Wilson.

We are having responsibility to give good family and society to our kids.. And that will lead to healthier world.

Be Happy!!!

Vaanadhi.

Nice Narration... Nice Titles...

I completed my reading of the novel "Tea for two and a piece of cake"
I really have no clear idea of what i am feeling about the story, because it left so many feelings.
But one thing is clear to me, i din't understand the lifestyle of people like "Nisha" till now.
Apart from this, i really loved the titles of each topic.
And i really liked the narration of the story, it took my eyes towards the book continuously.

I have never heard any good English songs.. or may be i dint aware or i dint get a chance..
i liked the songs whatever she has written in words..

I loved these lines:

"Trust in me in all you do
  Have the faith I have in you
  Love will see us through
  if only you trust in me
  Why don't you, you trust me?
  Come to me when things go wrong"

Planning to check for these kind of English songs..
Thanks to Preeti Shenoy for giving me nice weekend and awareness of these songs.

Be Happy!!!

Vaanadhi..

One More Good Book

Yesterday we had leave because of strike.
I got a chance to read Preeti Shenoy's "34 Bubblegums And Candies" .
First i thought that this is a novel. While reading, i came to know that it is real life incidents.
I really liked this book.
Each and every title (topic) left some feeling inside me.
I came to know about the authors blog . It is as nice as her  books.

I got this book and "Tea for Two and a piece of Cake" from landmark, after reading the other book "Life is what you make it" of the same author.
I am hoping "Tea for Two and a piece of Cake" will also be nice.

Be Simple and Happy!!!

Regards,
Vaanadhi

Preeti Shenoy

This week end, i read a book "Life is What You Make It" which i got from one of my friends.
The story was simple and nice
I have read only less English novels. In those, i felt this was some thing really different.
I was expecting, this will talk about love story of Ankita and Vaibhav, when i started reading.
But It is really amazing.
It talks about all part of a young girl's life.
Moreover, i went to shocking mode, while reading the things, what Ankita was doing when she got depressed.

 

 It gave me really nice week end.. And this is the first English novel which i read in one stretch.

Planning to read the other novels of the Author.

Have a happy week ahead..

Regards,

Vaanadhi