Curious Connections

  Rice Cooking - From the truck bed Last time it was the 2018 floods that left a havoc in Kerala. And, now in 2024, we have another catastrophic incident in Wayanad. It's all shocking to see how much of land has been scarred, and wiped out. While I write, the search and rescue operation are yet to reach many areas.  So, this post is not about why and how of the nature's fury or how we can stop these from happening. This post is about how we can organize, prepare a team with all equipment, technology backup- so that many lives can be saved..  Disaster Management - Rule Book Here's a question that should be asked? What are we learning from each disaster What new steps did we do this time? What did we lack? Did the team coordination improve? What tools did we lack and which things has helped us this time?  What tools can we have in our kitty so that our ground force will become more resilient to face such situation?  How to mobilize funds, manpower and essentials t...

What's your Dream   For long, long time in my life, I wanted a sail boat or any time of boat. It's just my one of desire, happy thought I keep revisiting. And, so when I saw this picture of this katamaran, I saved it for my vision board! So, what's pulls your sails and what are your little fancies of this life? 

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  Seth Godin's Quote I've been trying to figure out how to make a change in my life. All along, I have been distracted by many jingles, but now the time has to come to focus on key areas so that it reflects on my wealth, health and well being.  So, if you're in a ground zero, like I'm, where will you start? How will you form a tracking point to see how things are progressing?  Do you make a list or do you just start doing without tracking the activities? Somehow, I feel the need to note things and start from that point?  Let me see, how things are going from this point onwards!  Wish me luck to a new beginning!  When the world shifts - Whatcha gonna do?

Do you like steampunk concept? I do! It's a crazy mix of aeronautics, nautical, industrial, futuristic, merged with Victorian style!  Oh, I don't know how to explain it. It's been for you to see it.  Btw, I had long-long back seen a stempunk cabaret dance. Wish I can find it again on YouTube! 

  Planter - Cool One Easter Island had fascinated me. I wish one day I could visit that island and stand by one of the stone faces on the island. No one know the real reason why the indegenous people sculpted such statues on that island. Many theories has be flunged, but none seems to be convincing enough! So, now the question is how to make a planter with the shape of the Easter Island statue. Source:  mysiagarden Instagram

 Off-late, I have started hoarding many insta videos relating to motivation, exercises, TED talks, face yoga and other sundry stuffs. The purpose of sending a copy of it to Whatsapp is to use it save it and to revisit it. However, the purpose of revisiting hardly happens.  To make it more organized, and to make it easily accessible, I thought of creating a post just for sharing these link!  Face Exercises - Glowing Skin Tips Face Glow Exercises  athirabalaji Face Exercise claudiabuenno_ Exercise for Drooping Eye your.faceyogabff Face with Frozen Cucumber soumaicol   Face Glow - Applying Curd home_remedies_malayalam_   CORRECT TONGUE POSTURE  naturalfacebible Rice Water Tips https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-AzdIsI1i7/?igsh=cTc1YmZ5ejJ3b2ls

  Screen grab of Private Bus accident ( Reddit Post) Needless to say, accidents due to over speeding by the private buses in Kerala are a regular happening. Last time when I was Malappuram, I was thinking why these fellas go at breakneck speeds at roads which is just small enough for two cars to pass. One obvious reasons is just profits! Why in the name of some meager profits they do all these? Is there any other way in which they can maintain profits and yet slow a bit down? How else can bus operators earn money? Can they cross-sell other services while  people are in the bus? But, sell what? What about selling fresh bananas, tapioca, drinking water, pickled items, snacks in packets, etc. Well, we have to find a way, these bus operators can make same profits, but without the over-speeding? The bus Limited stop bus drivers of Kottayam-Ernakulam route are murderers. Especially the likes of Ave Maria. The roads are not suitable for even 40kmph but these go at extreme speeds, eve...

  By teaching We Learn! I like teaching, which I realized a bit late! It's not about the conventional teaching, but about short courses, tips, and hacks! My current journey in about learning to make reels and teaching them! Wish me luch! What do you like to teach?

Other day I stopped to have coffee at a busy and popular tea shop in Trivandrum. It was a thriving shop, with many customers having kadi, idli and hot beverage. And, right outside the store, they had placed a waste basket. And, in one look at the bin, we know the care given to it! The general notion around here is it's after all it's the trash that's going inside it. So, why make it clean? Also, similar thought on general cleanliness apply with public  toilets , and waste bin of our houses! . What do you think?  So, here's an appeal to profit making hotel or restaurant or money making kutti kapi kada - keep your waste bin sparking clean. Haven't you seen how they the cleaning staff at Lulu mall keeps the garbage bin, floor, and toilet space clean.  Trash Can - with dirt around Make it shine like your tea counter stand! =====================================  Acrylic Splashback Installation- protection to the wall behind the waste bin, hob, sink or bath! In the vi...

  Where's the spark? While sitting on a Sunday mass, I was thinking why, why there was no epiphany moment. Then I  told myself to calm down, be patient - not all days are the same!  Somewhere towards the end of the mass, I felt the urge to pee. Well, I recently started the habit of drinking a bottle of water, after waking up. Luckily, today I just drank a glass of it.  So, for the first time in this church, I looked around for the loo to relieve my bladder. And, down the stairs I spotted two small rooms which looked like urinal. First room I peeped inside had a commode - with dirty and un-kept floor. I skipped it. Then walked to the next room, which had two wall mounted urinal. Ha!  I closed the door and took my own time to let go in full steam! Meanwhile, during the process I scanned around. The floor not clean. And, it appeared that this ceramic urinal was not scrubbed for at least a week! What a Shame!  While I finished my biz, I was thinking why we Mala...

  Cherry Picked - A Phrase Gets the Attention Saw this news headline on The Hindu. Took a pic and shared it here as it resonated. How much we cherry pic on different things in life. We often highlight certain aspects of our life, ignoring the rest! Why do we do that? Is it to make us more important, valuable or to inflate our ego?

  Seth Godin Blog Check this post on Seth's blog.   On reading this, I felt this blog when I'm writing too share on finding pattern and using that pattern to make some improvement. Gad to see such posts!

  Screen Shot of Brain Gym From Insta, I keep watching many interesting video about brain and metal agility strengthening excises. I often save it to my Whatsapp, but it gets lost in the pile of such videos. And, so I decided to post few on this blog so that I can revisit it for practice. This is a clip from drbrodymiller Insta page. Here's the Instagram link :

  Fusion Kerala Breakfast Puttu and Beef ( Any fans here) Puttu Beef, Payaru and Pappadam

  Quote to Remember Suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret. 🌟 Freedom through discipline! 🌱 Cultivate self-discipline to break free from the chains of impulsivity and seize control of your destiny. 🌟 ✨ Reflection Points: 1️⃣ Discipline liberates you from being at the mercy of your emotions and desires. 2️⃣ Procrastination only leads to regret—start cultivating discipline today. 3️⃣ Embrace the power of self-discipline as the foundation for achieving your goals and realizing your dreams. Ready to plant the seeds of self-discipline? Share your thoughts below! 💪 Speaker: Eliud Kipchoge  “We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” ― Jim Rohn  Source: entrepreneurboost   • Instagram Link to watch -  https://www.facebook.com/reel/3778509879080938 (  codiesanchez )  https://linktr.ee/codiesanchez 

Beatroute Circle - Let's Jam   After a long break, I'm attending on the music show which are primarily organized by the big boys of Indian Coffee House!  It was a good evening, well spent seeing familiar faces, and not so familiar ones. Most of the faces of ladies were new and few gentlemen too. The location, and hall was not very appropriate as the sound was coming out distorted. Moreover, the parking space was full and we had to park the car outside. I have couple of beers with Boo on my side. My wifey was taking whiskey on rocks! She seems to have suddenly fallen over whiskey after we had a scotch a week back! How I lost my Path and Went to GM's Room  I had two learning or suggestions from this visit. One is a suggestion for organizers - that is to keep clear route to show the loo room. So, here's what happened! You see I'm bad with direction. My sensor is weak on that front! After a beer, I went to to loo which is by the side of the fellowship room. I took a lef...

 Here's a hypothesis, a plan which I recently conjured. The spark for this plan came from a visit to a kutti hotel near my office. And, this idea hinges on the plan that a little help, lift, financial support can go a long way to support a small biz or help an individual overcome certain life crisis. Here's the story and plan! Recently I went to have lunch at a small hotel at Kolathoor jn. This place is like any other small restaurant with a board which says "Meals Ready". And, this is my second visit to this restaurant.  This place place looks like any other typcial hotel and only difference was that a lady in her 40's - fair looking and smart was running this place. Usually, we don't get to see such type of women in this role. Anyways, that's not important. The matter is about the a way to attract more cusotmers to this hotel, provide tasty food, create a good flow of cash and provide remarkable service. The price of meals with netholi fry is just Rs 100...

 It's been almost 2 months that I started to blog! I'm happy for the great beginning, and the flood of posts that I keep writing. However, one thing I noticed is that visitors to my blog is just a trickle! Yes, just few people has seen my posts and most visitors on the analytics are my own visits!  Well, I don't have to complain as it's just a baby, a baby takes it own steps to grow! Building a blog from scratch is slow, takes time and not very sexy, but that's only way to grow network, traffic - brick by brick.  A blog with good readership is powerful, and it's great platform to build connection. That's what I keep telling people -but hardly people listen! And, that's the reason, for this blog! I gonna prove it! One of the main reason for starting this blog is to meet, interact with people - far and near. And, so on that front I haven't go anywhere closer than I was two months back. However, I'm known to have patience and that's my little vi...

  Malappuram Depot  Bus parked in Malappuram Bus Depot In July, 2024 , I revisited Malappuram. During this trip, I stayed at Paris Mount Hotel ( Name sounds like a fancy hotel in Paris) located right at the heart of Malappuram town. The vantage location of this hotel makes it easy for me to catch a bus towards Manjeri and to reach KSRTC bus deport at Malappuram for my journey to Angadipuram. Well, this intro is just a primer. The key topic of this post is about the big audacious plan to give Malappuram KSRTC depot an extravagant makeover! Here's how I visualize the new Malappuram KSRTC bus depot to look like. This plan may sound unreal to you. However, I want your opinion about this big renovation plan to make Malappuram bus depot a truly world-class. Also, it should be a public space which all Mallapuramites will be proud of!! Malappuram - New Vistas for Future! While working in this hilly town, a person once asked me a question, don't you love Malappuram. Isn't' this ...