Archive for April, 2008

how not to spoil kids?

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

As a new parent, I really would appreciate your ideas, experiences and tips on what one might try to avoid spoiling kids? Especially the key aspect fundamental to an individual’s growth – the ability to forgive. One may live to be a hundred years but without this – one is still a spoilt brat! So [...]

different ways of empathizing

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

If someone close to us is sharing his grievance with us, are there different ways to empathize? We can take the side of this person, really sympathize with him (or her), console and comfort her agreeing that the situation is so shockingly bad, what has the terrible world come to, and that offender who caused [...]

multi-select option for a has-many relationship : check box list

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

[TODO: open a new site for technical posts or revamp this one so that they don't get mixed up...!!] After a long time, thanks to the lovely spirit, opportunity and encouragement I received from my fellow spiders @ spiderlogic, I actually managed to contribute something however insignificant to the GRAILS open-source community. For a has-many [...]

how tired are you today?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

More tyred than this guy? Kichu Krishnan had asked this question – when you reach home in the evening, how tired are you? And he talked about a typical scene that I could at that time easily relate to. I used to be a workaholic, and when I went home I was so tired I'd [...]

am I a photographer?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

[an article written several years ago from my old website] Answers from different people to this question may be "yes", "maybe", or "no, I just dont have the talent for it". Let us try to take a closer look at the question, by starting with the idea of Beauty, and considering the ability of other species to identify it. [...]

dog crossing road

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

[This is from my drafts, something that happened quite a while ago] While returning home in the afternoon afternoon, I was coming on the busy Tumkur Road, driving alongside a truck on the left side, when in the distance, in the distance, on the temporarily empty road, I saw a small puppy crossing the road. [...]