My first smartphone Iphone4 - Feather touch

Recently we bought the much hyped Apple's iPhone4. I am a little shy to reach out to people who have an iphone old series and take a look at it. Internet gives many pictures and posts on iphone4 but damn the first touch its really most lovable experience for me.

After a 3 hours waiting in a long queue, my husband got the iphone4 to home. The excitement of handling the iphone4 was too high and was awaiting for its arrival. When I got to look at the box, I started to compare the box with my old mobiles. They boxes used to carry all accessaries for the mobile and would be bigger of size. The iphone box was as small and handy.

The charger is of dual purpose. The first time I could see a 3 pin plug head having USB port whereby the mobile could charge via USB and could do a transfer via USB also.

The first touch was smooth and like a feather. The navigation wasnt to my control. It was so kiddish that I started playing with the navigation controls like the paintbrush given to my 1 year old daughter.

I tried to add contacts and would retrieve the numbers from the call log and it would get connected even before I could stop it. It happened twice, one to my husband's office number and other to my home landline number. I thot I stopped dialling but I was wrong and realised that I had ringed to them and they gave a call back to me asking if I had forgot to inform something.

I had to wait for a day from the carrier provider to activate the connection for me. I have still not had a look at the micro sim inside the iphone. I could no wonder say " World is in my hands" with 12G data plan - Internet on the go.

I proudly placed my iphone on my office desk and raised my collars to have the first iphone4 in the whole office and offered everyone to take a look at my new gadget.

Still lot more to explore, but slowly would get used to the new age smartphone. Lot more applications to install and utilise smartly.

Sooner to post its picture.

My first Ramadhan Fasting

My first Ramadhan Fasting

September 1 2008 - My first ramadhan fasting after my marriage. Its my first ramadhan fasting for my lifetime. And to add to this speciality I was pregnant 7 months. People advised me not to go for fasting as it is not mandatory for the pregnant ladies.

But I was much awaiting for this day to start off my fast. My monther-in-law and my husband supported me in the fasting. Something which I couldnt do was the 5 times prayer. I could only do Fajr and then go for Isha, which was very much irking for me even if i think of this today.

We prepared for the sahar and woke up early at 4.00am and all three of us had sahar and started off our first day fasting of the Ramadhan month.

I was a little excited to get the feeling that with me my little one is also gonna fast and its her first ramadhan too. Dedicatedly I managed the whole day at office and was advised to come home early by 6.30pm to break the fast.

My husband prepared for the first iftar and he reached home by 6.45pm. I prepared myself to leave home to end my first ramadhan fasting. It takes 45mins for me to reach home and I managed to start by 6pm from my office stating the reason. They were kind enough to give the excuse only for that day.

I walked down to the bus-stop and got into the bus at 6.15pm aiming to reach home by 7.00pm to break the fast at 7.10pm. I was a little tired and slept in the bus. As the bus headed towards a junction, there was heavy traffic and moved as slow as a caterpillar could.

It was 6.45pm when I was woke up by the phone call from my husband waiting for my arrival. I told him that I was just 2km away from home and would be reaching in 15mins thinking that the traffic would get cleared off. But to my dismay, the bus never even moved till 7.00pm and I did not know what to do. I could not even take a taxi to home as nothing moved and everything was standstill.

I was with much joy to join my husband and mom-in-law to break my first fast and would always cherish those happy moments, but it never happened at all.

I was advised to break fast atleast by drinnking water as it is manadatory to break the fast at the right time, else we dont mean the ramadhan fasting. I carried nothing in my hand to break my fast and I rushed to the driver to get his help. He cudnt understand me and didnt help me out at the first move.

Then I explained him that I am fasting at my pregnancy period and would need atleast water to break my fast and it needs to be done at the stipulated time. Then he gave the drinking water he carried in his flask and helped me out.

After that the bus moved on and I reached home at 7.45pm. My husband and mom-in-law were a little worried for me as I was pregnant and had suffered a lot for breaking the fast.

Since then they advised me to carry Water and dates with me always for the rest of the month to use it for breaking the fast if I am caught up in such situation.

My first lifetime ramadhan fasting experience relishes me forever.

English movie at 7 months

My little lad is 7 months and she watches TV channel logos and cartoons with much excitement. We got a complementary tickets from my office for Transformers - The Revenge of the Fallen movie. We planned to take our little one for the movie.

She was a silent viewer for the first few minutes watching the activities around her. Then when the lights went off, she started wobbling on my lap and i cuddled with her pacifier.
She is very fond of cars and hence whenever car comes on the screen she jumps up and after it transfers to the robot she hugged me showing her back to the robot.

She enjoyed the movie whenever there were cars on the screen and giggled around the seat in search of activities for her in the dark theater. After an hour or so she started feeling uncomfortable and slightly raised her voice to gather our attraction towards her.

Then she had her afternoon lunch and as part of her daily schedule she would sleep after her lunch. But after coming to theater, she did get a comfortable sleep. So she was awake for the whole movie after waking up at 6am in the morning.

It was a very lengthy movie for about 3 hours to handle her without activities. She was so mischievous in between the movie, still we all enjoyed the movie and I tried my best to keep her comfortable as well others in the theater not getting disturbed by her.

Since we occupied the last row corner seats, we managed to bring her in and out to pacify her in the dark. It was a thrilling experience when we took her for the movie.

After this movie experience with our dearie, we are planning to take her for Harry potter.

Six Weeks Postpartum Period

The whole environment after the arrival of the new little cute member in the family is filled with emotions and sentiments. Especially the Pride of being a mother, introducing the family members to the little one, the care and touch towards the little one makes you forget the whole world around you.

There starts the saga of six weeks in the postnatal period. It is highly advised to follow the six week postnatal period as it gives time to the body and mind to restore back to normal after the labour and delivery. There is always a debate of whether the six weeks concept is required or not. Earlier even I felt it to be the life's boring part, but as the days went I realized the importance of the six weeks post partum period.

I was asked to sit in a room with my cute little one and would hardly would interact with other family members an hour a day. My mother-in-law played the role of midwife, helping me in the room. She took so much care of my kid and me in the six weeks postpartum period. The only console was my cute little one's face.

Being a career women, have always be on roam and felt that I was put within the four walls of the room. Food was delivered to my room, cleaning & washing would be done by servant. Other family members were mainly responsible in giving enthusiasm at the boring period.

We had chetti on the 11th day and on 21st day we gave Hakikah and with the celebration. then came our first wedding anniversary celebrations where friends and relatives visited our home to bless us and my little one. My daughter received so much of love and affection from everyone and the six weeks post partum period washed away.

Initially I felt boring but then realised that the woman’s body goes through many changes in postpartum, the six-week period after delivery, as the body attempts to return to its pre-pregnancy state. Some undergo vaginal bleeding or discharge for 4 to 6 weeks after delivery.

I had taken up the regular checkup with the doctor for weight and pressure. Inspections were done in the perineum. The doctor certified me fit for second carriage but...

Value of ZERO

Internet banking is one of features provided by many of the banks all over the world. IT professionals are bound to use this feature as they are always binded with the desktop.

We husband and wife are both IT professionals are using this feature since we started receiving our first salary. Last month we had to pay off our monthly rental for the house we stay. It is normally transacted via internet banking.

My husband had 14300 as his account balance and our house rent is 1300. After the transaction is over the transaction history is normally printed with the amount transfered and available balance.

My husband was shocked to see the transaction history showing his 13000, for the 1300 amount being transacted. He rushed me from the kitchen to check out what was wrong with the transaction. At the first instant it seemed to be a transaction of 13000 instead of 1300 but when gone through in detail it was mentioned that the available balance is 13000 & Amount transacted is 1300.

ZERO HAS no value when it precedes any digit, but when it is following some other digit it finds its own place value.

Techie Pinky travel

Singapore transportation system is a modern, air-conditioned passenger train service with stations all over the island. There are three main lines – the North-South line from Marina Bay to Jurong East, the East-West line from Changi Airport/Pasir Ris to Boon Lay, and the North-East line(NEL) from Harbour Front to Punggol.

The North East line is the longest driverless underground transportation spanning for 20.7kms with 16 stations Harbour Front (south) to Punggol (North east) of Singapore.

I had been for a purchase at Mustafa and on return I took up the NEL from Farrer Park to HF. When I got down in HF, one of the two doors of my train car did not open due to some problem. But to my surprise, The platform screen doors of that particular car also was closed in correspondence with the train door.

I was perplexed and asked the authorities about the system. He briefed me about the NEL and its Signalling System. Following is a short note on the same.

Singapore MRT designed for a fully automated driverless train operation The Platform Screen Doors (PSD) are aesthetically esigned to blend in with the stations’ design. It minimises energy consumption by preventing air-conditioned cool air from escaping into the tunnel, and acts as a safety barrier for assengers standing between the platform and tracks.

The Platform Screen Door are operated by an electrical drive system upon receipt of vital PSD operation controls from the signalling system in the nominal driverless mode. The PSD controller provides status indication on individual PSD to the station management system.

The Singapore MRT are operated in set of six with positive door lock mechanism lea cars. The individual local door control unit is designedving no room for ambiguity in door status. There is a close interaction with signalling from the automatic train control unit to the station management systems which provides crucial platform door opening synchronization with train door operation and coordination with other station operations.

Whenever I travel in the pink lane, I am dumbfounded by the growth of technology.

Be careful when you book tickets

Ticket booking is always a painful task. There were days when people had to walk to the reservation counter to book tickets. Even I have experienced the queueing activity. When I was schooling, my father used to book the tickets - be it a cinema theatre or a park ticket or a travel ticket. He always plans the trip well in advance.

If it is going to be an outing like theatre or park, it would be advance booking before 2 weeks. He planned it to avoid the queueing inconvenience eating up his time in idle. If it was the travel plan, then the tickets are booked 3 months advance. He booked it 3 months advance because the reservation system allows him to do only 3 months advance. To my knowledge until my college studies, he never stood up in a queue for reservation. TIll then we made outing once a year to visit our relations during the Summer vacation. So dates and plan was almost fixed and doesnt get affected.

When I worked in Bangalore, I travel to my hometown every alternate weekend and I started making the travel plans. As an ideal daughter for my father, I followed him by writing the reservation form and booked tickets well in advance rather a month before. I would have practiced it no later than for my first two travels. Then I was influenced by the world of computers.

I started booking my tickets online and utmost tried to avoid the reservation queue.Lazyness brewed in me and I advised my father to learn online booking. I stopped planning my travel instead travel when the tickets are available as and when I search them online.

I was pretty confident with my bookings be it a planned travel or an unplanned travel, I make up it up for the booked date. But one day the confidence turned over confidence. I had made online booking for a movie for sunday evening. Online ticketing is very simple, either u get a reference number or take a printout of the tkt and get it.

I booked the ticket for the movie and pulled in everyone at home and walked into the theatre with the printout. The gate keeping boy allowed us to inside and we got our seats comfortably and got settled with the popcorns munching. The manager of the theatre walked to us and asked for the tickets. He asked us to come out and checked our tickets. I wasnt sure y we were pulled out of the theatre. He informed us that the ticket printout which we had was dated for the saturday evening show and we turned up on sunday.

Even though educated, working and personally booked online, experienced with online ticket booking, a small mistake in the selection of date in computer. The system date was set from Monday to Sunday showing S for saturday and S for sunday leading up to the confusion. It was left unnoticed until We had watched the first 2 scenes of the movie and were sent back home.
One another scene which recently happened was while booking flight ticket for my father. After several discussions at home we finalised the date for his travel to be friday night flight. The flight was at 1.15am and the booking was made for friday 1.15am flight. Keeping the discussions in mind he prepared for his travel on friday night and at the airport his travel was denied saying his flight has already left and his travel status was NO SHOW as the 1.15am flight means it is saturday early morning flight but keeping in mind that it was a friday night flight the whole mess happened.

So BE AWARE or BE AWAKE when you book your tickets online. Dont go by word or say. Dont get mislead by the dates & timings. LOOK properly for the date and time of the booking made.