3-2, for the man to mosquito, part 2

If you have followed my previous blog on mosquito and the battle i had with them in the balcony, you would have agreed that the mosquitoes had won with the score 2 - 0 .

I had vowed that humans would come back with some tactics to win and do did I. I did try to get them out of my house with various methods such as good knight, sprays and so on.

The sprays such as Hit were super only to have time related effect and they smell not so nice. We had to go to the drawing board, and do a bit of research.

The sprays outdoor to control the breeding and the grown ups seem to be a good way but it is not under our control and we see the corporation already doing their bit. And one has to realize the spraying outdoors has to be repeated so often.

I had a chat with one of the sellers of these outdoor spraying machines and he mentioned that these are selling hot cakes and may be we would see change later.

But what about now!!!!!

I resorted to the time tested physical barrier and the mosquito netting of all the open access areas such as windows and the doors including those to the balcony.

Oh, boy, what a difference it made to our lives. At last  and at least for now, we can control the open entry of these deadly living things to our bedroom. Yes now and then one snoops in. it then becomes a decent battle i.e one to one as opposed to one to many.

It then hurts harder when one manages to bite us outdoors, such as when i was roaming with Shorts in a theme park.

I was thus brought to reality and then quickly put on jeans in the nice weather cursing the mosquitoes.

Yes you the mosquitoes win outdoors, a bit unfair but indoors in my house where the battle is fair and square, i am leading 3-2 score. though it means i have put another layer where i live behind bars so as to speak!!!!



Hope you enjoyed

Take care

Chockalingam

God, Vishwaroopam, Avatar and the Pristine Road

God for those who believe His Existence does not show himself to his devotees all the time and does appear briefly. This appearance can be incarnations, or Avatar. For incarnations, one should have lived during this period of time and physically present where He or She lived or visited.

Vishwaroopam is when the Lord shows @"Himself as God" to some special person such as Arjuna in Mahabharatha. The important thing about Vishwaroopam is that the  Lord only shows this form for a very brief period of time. In Fact during the Avatar of Lord as Krishna, he apparently showed himself as the God [ Vishwaroopam] only six times during this Avatar.

The common theme for both the incarnation namely the avatar and Vishwaroopam is the brevity of time or absence of permanence.

Now let us turn to driving and the road when it is pristine. You do really enjoy driving when the road is good, the motor is responsive and the landscape is exquisite. You can choose the area where the landscape is good, buy and drive the best motor with the money we have, but hey! what about the road condition.

This obviously depends on where you live, the authorities on how they lay down the road and maintain, the nature such as rain does not spoil the laid road and so on.

What would you say when the road is pristine only for a short period of time and then when the road surface is so bad that you wish you are not there!. You start praying that the road gets re laid to a better condition and you do not know when that would be.

You keep praying since you cannot do anything else and it is not under your control even though it should be?

And then one day the road is relaid and it is pristine, and you rejoice at the best road surface you are able to drive and start enjoying the ride!!

You worship the God in this case the pristine road, which has made an avatar when you are able to Darshan it. Sometimes you feel the road is soooooo goooooood that you forget to worship the Avatar only to realise that the next time you drive, what you had the time before was indeed a Vishwaroopam!!!!!

I hope you got it and sorry for the sarcastic part of it and learn to laugh with me

and say Deivame [Oh, The Lord/ God] and worship the Pristine Road next time you drive on one!!!!!

Warm Regards and Best Wishes

Chockalingam

Hunter being Hunted: The ground reality in the life of a patient and doctor.

The human race we would like to believe is superior to others. However you are taught humility when other species can over power you. Simply you observe as you are defeated.

You do watch National Geographic Channel,don't you where the animal caught by the cheetah or the lion simply lies helpless when eaten alive.

It is not uncommon in human illness when the doctors feel as helpless if not more when the patient succumbs to some infective illness.

i was speaking to a Physician colleague of mine other day, when he commented Dengue to be one such illness, when he knows that the patient is not going to make it.
 
We may think ourselves to be the hunters and not the hunted but hey, at some stage we may be the hunted!

"Mortals we are"  is something we get to understand when faced with it, like someone who we know is not making it or did not.  This may happen once in few years!

However the doctors who treat patients face this reality more often than a common man. Sometimes he or she may have dealt with few deaths even in one day!

It does take a toll on the doctor, even though he may look bold enough to take it.

So next time you meet your doctor, be nice to him as much as he is to you, since he may have taken too much toll already from the mortals he had to deal with!

Warm regards and sorry for the long time for the blog

Best Wishes

Chockalingam