Moments

Do you find Jigsaw Puzzles interesting? Do you find it tough to solve? I’ll show you a few ways to make them easier and fun. Now imagine a thousand piece puzzle! Would you do it? Some of you will say yeah I’ll try, but some will say no way, that’s too hard.  This is my experience. When my mom went to classes that day, me and my father had nothing to do at home. That is when we decided to start this 1000 piece Disney Princess Jigsaw Puzzle. You might be thinking that is a crazy decision. I thought that at first too but I gave it a try. At first, I looked at the pieces and thought it was really really tough to solve but then my father taught me a few techniques that we could do. Sort out all the pieces by colour. By doing this later when you are searching for a piece, you can easily search for it in the groups according to the colour. Find the edge pieces and keep them aside Edge pieces are pieces that are on the outer edge of the puzzle. Then start sorting the edge pieces by colour....

 Writing duel or dual writing challenge. It was an idea that came up during lunch today when me and my daughter (who goes by the pen name Little VG on this blog) We pick a topic and both of us write about it. Today's topic is "Nothing on TV" Here are the two versions from us Little VG version My version Enjoy the differences in writing of an 8 year old and an adult

  “Nothing on TV”  What does that phrase mean to you? Is it something you say frequently? Think about it for a few seconds. Most of your thoughts might be nothing to watch on TV. That is right but there is another thing other than that. It can also mean that you lost connection or signal. Have you experienced this before? Of course! I am sure many of you experienced this before. This has happened to me and every time this happens I am always super impatient. It is just so boring to look at nothing other than the TV screen saying ‘You have lost connection.Try again later.’   It also takes a lot of time to connect back.                         Another scenario of “Nothing on TV” is when there is nothing to watch, what most of you would have thought. It is very maddening especially when you and your family have decided to watch TV while eating dinner on a Frida...

 An artifact of modern world, TV is a great invention that helps you enjoy the visuals from a far off place. Nah that is old school definition of Television.  In olden days, it is true that TV was the only way we could enjoy a match happening in London broadcasted to millions all around the world. With advances in communication systems, in today's fast paced world, people catch up a lot on their smaller screens - be it Whatsapp video calls, Facebook live, or even all the recorded stuff on social media. So what is the relevance of the phrase "nothing on TV"? If we go back three decades, TV was the major source of entertainment on a normal day, replacing the radio and adding colors to the lives of many. Back then, nothing on TV meant despair, gloom and anguish. Nothing on TV could be due to power cuts attributed to bad weather. It could be due to the nasty cable operator who wants to do maintenance of his equipment right when I want to watch something interesting. Due to sh...

Driving to work on a Saturday morning, Raghu was feeling frustrated. What the heck is going on in his company? Why am I supposed to work on weekends? He was annoyed by the callous attitude of his boss and the management. Nobody tells openly what we are working towards. It was not something new to Raghu, having spent 20 years of his career in a defense research organization. But today he was restless and disturbed. He knew he was a crucial piece of the big complicated jigsaw puzzle, that his current project was. Raghu was an expert in electronic circuit design. For the past few months, he had been working on some special kind of amplifiers - a device that could listen to the feeblest vibrations and remain unaffected by the typical sounds that can be heard by humans. What was the amplifier for? Nobody would tell him. "Was it some kind of communication device to outer space? Whose voices would the device hear?" Raghu wondered. He had the prototype device in his bag lying on the...

 Yesterday, 10th March.. A day that I wont forget... Of course there are many more memorable days in my life that I wont forget, but this is one of its kind... A day that I (actually I should say we - my family) landed on a foreign land to become a Non-Resident Indian, NRI.. A long cherished dream of working abroad, in a developed nation, in a more peaceful work culture with better work life balance.. A destination... Not really... probably a pit stop... Dream destination is was the United States of America. So Penang, Malaysia was planned as a layover at a transiting airport...  A year or maximum two to be eligible to apply for L1 visa to USA.. I was so confident of finding that opportunity to get an internal transfer to USA.... Of course, Intel is the largest semiconductor company in the world.. If the opportunity cant be found here, then where else could it be!! But life always has surprises in store. Within probably half a year, I was getting into a new comfort zone.. Lif...

I have started reading many Enid Blyton books in this lockdown. This is how I started reading Enid Blyton books. First I got two wishing-chair books from my father's friend. After I read those I started liking Enid Blyton books, so my mother found more of Enid Blyton books. 😄 These are some examples of the books I have been reading:Little lost hen, Adventures of the six cousins, Goblin's toy shop. This is  what happened in Adventures of the six cousins ,The home of three children's has burnt, so they went to their cousin's house . At first, no one liked each other but when time passed they started doing a dventures together. I am going to read famous books like Famous five and Faraway tree in this vacation. Do read Enid Blyton books. They are very interesting. Little Vg 😄