Are you a "Full Cup"?

If others don’t feel about U - the way U do, 

spend some time to contemplate if what u “feel” is really true!!  

If you still feel that you have been fair enough, 

think once again to see if you had bothered 

to express your feelings to the right people in the right way, anytime? 

Once you start feeling “Yes” to this question as well, think again – 

Whether the way you expressed your feelings were really "enough" 

to satisfy the emotional needs of the specific person in question? 

If you still feel yourself as "perfectly right” 

without an ounce of “remorse” and the other person as “completely wrong”….

then beware - you just might be suffering from the “Full Cup Syndrome”!!

Empty your cup ...de-clutter your mind and try to think peacefully,

what the other person just might be trying to bring to your notice -

before jumping on to conclusions and worser still - "judgements"!

There could be new insights that you can probably gain by just loosening yourself 

and putting yourself in the other person's shoes...! 

Insights - that would not only change the way you conceived situations, 

but insights - that could bring meaningful changes in other's lives as well..

Just because of the simple fact that you learned to "empty your cup" 

and emerged as a more open self!!

Oman 2010 - World Fireworks Championship

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2010 December had been a festive month in the Sultanate of Oman, with the 40th National Day Celebrations of the country on a roll!  The country celebrated the 40th year milestone of modern renaissance under the esteemed direction of 

Sultan Qaboos Bin Said-Al Said in style... 

The cities and streets were adorned with colourful lights & flags and vibrant with the high spirits of all the natives & residents! 

Part of the celebrations were the "World Fireworks Championship" that gave way to a spectacular competition between the 5 top teams in the world -

1. Merlin (UK)

2. Lacroix-Ruggieri (France)

3. Panzera (Italy)

4. Vulcan (Hong Kong)

5. Zambelli Internationale (USA)

And the winner was the team from France - "Lacroix-Ruggieri"!!! 

Have a look at a small part of the outstanding visual treat, they gifted us with.

Fireworks have always successfully brought out the child in me...The shrieks of joy and amusement when watching each of the new forms being displayed in the sky is something that evades the mental barriers formed as part of our "growing ages"...:)


This craze could very well be inherited from my dear Papa whom I have been seeing from my childhood chasing every chance to enjoy the fireworks display..:) Be it any nook or corner, if he gets a chance he would just go for it....and whenever could, I would also be taken with him to enjoy the thrill of it from even close distances.. :) When the "Big Bang" ones gets fired in the temple festivals, I remember pulling my papa's hands and running towards a safer distance when I was a small kid... :)


As the years have passed, the fireworks market have been growingly taken over by the Chinese products. But still, the mere excitement that even something as small as a "Poothiri" brings cannot be taken over by any of these sophisticated products...:)


This very blog is dedicated to all the fireworks lovers...!!!
Lets hope that sooner, new ways be discovered for the fireworks industry to flourish in a safe and more environment friendly manner!! 

The Royal Touch!

Glass Paintings are one art form that I thoroughly enjoy exploring...Not an expert in it...But have always loved spending time with those glossy colors whenever I could!

This painting was my surprise parting gift for a dear friend (Tintu, am talking about U :->> ) when I had left Chennai in 2008. And what a thrill it was, when I quite unexpectedly spotted it displayed - right after my return to Chennai after all these years!! :)