P for Puppies

Pets add life to the otherwise lukewarm routine. Their presence enriches with packs of affection and sessions of playful cheerfulness. I don't believe any person could have aversion to them. Unless an inborn allergy happens, a human being enjoys all the attention showered by them. Of all the animals kept as pets, dogs are the best friends for us. It is an accepted fact, no doubt.

Kurnool has added many memories to the days of childhood innocence.
The vast place around the house had many wonderful birds, plants and animals too. I discovered the third factor by accident. One evening, after returning from home all of a sudden a shrill voice of a puppy was heard. That was coming from the back side of the bougainvilla that grew near the living room window. A careful peep showed the presence of a small cute puppy searching frantically for its mother.

The tiredness of the school vanished, and I ran inside shouting I saw a puppy
All the sisters and mother came out to check if there was any clue about its mother. A bigger dog was lying with all its four puppies and this was the fifth one. What a wonderful way to find the addition to our family.

They became our regular play mates. The mother was a meek one with no fear for strangers. We used to take the puppies inside the home and play with childish curiosity. The mother seemed to be confident about its puppies safety. This went on for some months.

Every evening was a happy time to enjoy the bundles of squeaking puppies. We gave them names too. Fat puppy was the Bhim, Black and white spots one was my favourite, so I called it Kalajamun,   brown one was everyone's favourite. It had sparkling eyes and active too. The moment we enter home from school, they too would run towards us. That was the first time I experienced the joy of being wanted, showered with attention and affection.  One evening I could not find them. The garden was silent without their presence. Something bad seemed to creep into the air. I went on calling them and made rounds around the house.

There was a low level cement tank to hold water for the garden. A look towards it revealed it all. A shocking site of four puppies floating dead in the tank made me run blindly towards the house. Tears were running on the cheek. Words failed and I was gasping. Somehow I gathered courage to tell the fate of the little ones.

Their mother left our place and went to lead its life. Just one puppy survived out of those five. And that remained with us till we left the place. On the day of leaving the place, it even tried to jump into the vehicle and its eyes were pleading to take it too. That was the Last shot of pain, and I kept myself away from any kind of pets.

-- noenglish

Last Seen Kurnool

That was the last glimpse that I had of the land.
Once a playground for me, a school that taught the secrets of nature, a loyal listener to all my childish humming.
As the four wheeler geared up the speed forward, the pain, unknown made its presence in me to remain for years to come.

Kurnool
The night was dark, with dripping raindrops and hurriedly settled for the night. The sunrise was a preparation for the years to come. The big building stood in a forlorn look with red soil on one side and pure black mud on the other. The way to the gate was perched around a space, that could be guessed as a small garden. There was around one acre land in its untouched mode.

Father took to the task. He got the land ploughed and that was the first experience of looking at the soil in close quarters. The soil opening up itself to the machine, the unwanted plants being rooted out, caught my fascination for years to come. The wait for rains was a long one and father did not wait. He divided the land into parts to grow vegetables, crops and flowering plants. What a variety to look for?

The first sight of life from soil was a wonderful one. We planted beans seeds at the hedge so the plant could easily grow. We were pouring water from the tank. Every day morning it is a ritual to look for the first leaves of the plant. For one week there was no sign of life. One big rain through out the night, and pat showed up two green leaves with a shine of life, surrounded by the black soil! What a sight to cherish. That hooked my pulsing heart to the nature. What an experience to touch the soil, the tender leaves, and look for the buds, flowers, and feel the fully grown veggies appear as shy kids behind those leaves.

The birds chirping sounds, the raw bananas prospering into yellow fruits, the ground nut plants secretly hiding the nuts only to be plucked to devour. The variety of flora was as vast as the area. The tamarind tree, and guava tree looked like the elders of the group. The banana trees with all the water and muddy soil, speak a different language. The softness of the earth worms was friendly answer to the plant's call for nutrition.

The roses, lillies, chrysanthemums, hibiscus, zinnias, jasmines, and what not, you name the plant, we had it. That was a life close to nature, knowing the nature, playing with nature. Father's ritual of transfer, wiped out everything and uprooted me to another land. What is the name of it, doesn't matter. This land is gone forever.



The evening of departure from Kurnool was the saddest day. The dog, whom we groomed with love, the plants, the flowers and the soil - turning their reality into memory - never to be seen again.

The Last seem gloominess of the vast land stays with me as a simple memory of my Land!



-- noenglish

Preview, Read, Recall

The title suggests three words. They look unrelated. The first word preview sounds familiar. It is formed with the help of the prefix - pre, means before. We all know that. We have so many other words that have this prefix.

So we can make its meaning and yes, you are right. Preview means to see it  before everybody sees it. And pat comes the movie previews that would be screened for the review pundits. Here I'm not discussing about movie previews, but the technique of reading.

Reading a book or reading an article of our favourite writer or the novel or any reading stuff. Reading as a skill has its techniques. The methods make it easy for us to read faster and remember longer.

This technique consists of three frames of action
First one - Preview
This includes what we do when we take a book into our hands. We check the front and back covers of the book. Read the details printed there. If that creates a curiosity to know more, we shuffle through the pages, read here and there, check for the content that interests us etc. All the parameters satisfied, then we take the book to the counter and make it ours by paying the cash.
If its a newspaper or web article, we look at the title first. If that creates interest, then we look at the content as a whole. We will try to find some cue words that connects the info in our mind. If that too is established, then we settle with the reading activity for the next ten minutes or so. 

If it is a piece of write up that we need to remember for the sake of examination, this preview includes other actions such as - how many pages does the answer consume, if its one page ok, if it exceeds to two or three, better go through the side headings, and make an estimation of time period it takes for you to study as a whole.

Second one is to Read
Now settled down to read, the words don't go easy on us. Some may sit tough. Our mind has no reference of it. Then take the help of a dictionary. Refer to it, and write its meaning over the word. Underline or highlight the spaces that contain important information. This action gives us the gist of the content when we get back to it for a quick reference. Read each word carefully. Understand its meaning. Try to visualise the content. This creates easy way for the short memory.

Lastly, it is to Recall
We recall the funny situations of the movies that we watched. We recall/hum the lyrics of our favourite songs. But study material contains no such entertainment. Yet it gets us the marks, the ranks and the pride. So we have to create our own occasions to recall the answers that are read. Discussing the topic with friends and explain to clear their doubts or ours is the only way to recall the content. This creates the permanent folder for it in the brain and we call it long term memory.

Have a happy session with your reading time folks!
Some more tricks in the coming posts.

-- noenglish

Hima, The Golden Girl

Now
The TV channels are wonderstuck at the success, shocked at the levels of performance, the running abilities on the track seemed unbelievable... seconds split the mind... and the mind blowing headlines flashed...
Hima Das is India's first track and field gold medalist at the IAAF World Championships

She needs no introduction
Her tears of excitement has become the silent alphabet for the nation.
Her fire ignited many embers of the country's little hearts.
She banged the fears that parents dreaded the most.
She wrote her definition of FREEDOM
She is the tall post for FREE will
She is the HIMA, the eighteen year old from the least known town,  Dhing in Assam's Nagaon district, presented her motherland with the first ever gold at a world track event. She is also a socially conscious teenager. She took lead in demolishing country liquor vends in her village Dhing and its neighbourhood.  Appreciate her guts to do anything and everything that she finds right.

HISTORY CREATED
The 18-year-old Hima Das, shot like an arrow on the track and clocked 51.46 seconds, edging out Romania's Andrea Milkos (silver) and America's Taylor Manson (bronze).

A girl from the unknown hamlet, Dhing, has a father who believed in her abilities. Ranjit Das, a small farmer who grows rice and struggles for day to day menials. She is the youngest of six siblings.  The close association with nature brings out the best in an individual. Hima is a proof for that. Her ability to run while playing, while stealing the fruit from the orchards, playful bets with friends brought out the best in her. The hamlet nurtured her sibling.

Though she opted to play football, her speed was noticed by  Nipon Das last January. He suggested her to shift to track and went on to become her coach. Due to the absence of a running track, she opted for the muddy football field. Despite the lack of facilities, she won bronze in the state meet.  Nipon is an athletics coach with the Directorate of Sports and Youth Welfare. He convinced Hima to shift to Guwahati for better facilities.

“She does not get overawed by anybody and does not care about her opponents. In every race, her goal is to beat the best with better timing,” says her coach.

She started using spikers  only a couple of years ago. So don't blame the lack of facilities to be an achiever.

She eventually qualified for the women's 200m event at the Asian YOuth Championships in Bangkok. She finished Seventh there.

Her timing of 24.52 seconds qualified her for the World Youth Championships in Nairobi. She took the fifth place with the time of 24.31 seconds.

Further bettered her performance with a gold at the Asian games test event in Jakarta with her career best of 23.59 seconds.

NOW

With her success at World U20, Hima made herself a favourite for the gold at next month's Asian Games.

Hearty best wishes to you dear Golden Girl!

-- noenglish

Bonsai From Japan

Japan as a country has distinct traditions. Their growth as a nation is a proof for this. The traditions are followed as daily rituals, indulging the individuals in building the economy, and making the religion a personal attribute.

In Japan, blowing nose in public is considered to be uncultured. One should find a private place to blow the nose and be free of the disturbing insider. People prefer to wear masks to protect them during winter. They take care not to spread germs and harm the people around.

Karate
Japanese follow Buddhism. It preaches non-violence. Yet it is the land where Karate is practised. Kara means empty and Te means hand in Japanese. They fight with empty hands, without holding any weapon. It originated in the island of Okinawa. This form of fighting has been heavily influenced by the Chinese Kung Fu.
Karaoke
Another word from Japanese, of recent origin is Karaoke. This includes singing along with the tune of a popular song. The singers read the lyrics from a screen. Even the bad voiced ones could record their favourite songs and have fun!

Ninja
One more widely accepted word from Japan is Ninja. This actually means a spy in Japanese. But in English this refers to a perosn who moves and attacks silently. The movies made an impact by showing fighters who wear masks and black clothing as ninjas. This may not be a historical truth. Yet people enjoy watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series on TV.

Some more Words such as
Tsunami, means a very large sea wave that is caused by an earthquake.

Bonsai: This word in Japanese means "planted in a container". This is an art form in which plants are grown in various containers and their roots are pruned time by time to make them look miniature trees. It utilises horticultural methods and artistic applications.
'Moshi Moshi' means telephonic hello where as 'Sayonara' - means 'good bye'. This word had been popularly used in English for quite a period of time.

-- noenglish

Guerilla Marketing

After Germany, let us move on to another neighboring country of England, that is Spain. The moment I typed Spain and England in the search engine, a list of centuries of periodical war appeared under the name of Anglo Spanish War. Naval invasions were common between these two. Armada is the Spanish and Portuguese word for naval fleet, which also adopted into English. Now its clear that the political conditions too affect the word intake for a language.

One more word Guerrilla
In Spanish, this word literally means “little war.” This means an unofficial group of people fighting the government. In English, it’s most commonly used as an adjective “guerrilla warfare” or “guerrilla marketing.”

Guerrilla marketing is an advertisement strategy. Its concept is designed to promote products or services in an unconventional way with little amount to spend.

Macho
This word describes a person who is strong or masculine. This word also describes the attitude of a person's arrogance about his manhood.

Patio 
in Spanish is equivalent to the portico of English. This refers to the area outside a house that accommodates a table and some chairs. But there wont be roof to cover them.

More from Spain
Plaza
Previously referred to an open area used by the people in general in a city.
Presently used as a compound noun as it is attached with the names of many shopping malls and  corporate building areas.

Siesta
This word is a synonym for nap in English.
This refers to that short period of sleep one takes in the middle of the day, especially after lunch. The intense heat of summer encourages people to take siestas in the noon in hot countries.
This applies to our Indian climate as well!


-- noenglish

Children's Garden

We fear to take loans but languages are more generous than human beings. They loan each other generously and enrich lavishly.  In another way, it reflects the openness of the grammatical structure of the words of the language that could make the most out of them. This makes the language a living one. This is a better feature as one becomes extinct with limited vocabulary.


Loanwords are nothing new to English as a language. It continues to grow merging with words from other languages. Today let us take up loan words from Germany.

 The most commonly used word of admitting children for their first stint with reading and writing and even getting accustomed to school schedule starts with the playschool. Such schools look beautiful with colored animals, trees and alphabet drawn on the walls. The small chairs, tables and the kids with innocent eyes paint a picture of mini garden. Lower Kindergarten is the expanded form of LKG. Upper Kindergarten is for UKG. Kindergarten literally means "children's garden" in German language.

Waltz
We have various types of formal dances. Waltz is one such dance form. This word is also applied to the music that is played during those dances.

Some more German..

Rucksack means a backpack ( Rucken means back, and sack means bag)

poltergeist means a ghost who reveals its existence through making noises and throwing objects

zeitgeist defines the mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs 

dachshund defines a dog's breed with very short legged and long bodied

blitzkrieg an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.

Finally one interesting fact to end the post
German Shepherds are the world famous german dogs, previously known as Alsatian dogs in Britain, Italy and even in Indian homes. They are the second most popular dog breed opted by the dog lovers. They were originally developed for herding the sheep. Hence the name German Shepherds. 

-- noenglish

Game of Grammar

English language has a specific feature. It has parts of speech numbered eight. We have been chanting them since the day we joined our school education. They are noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection.

All the names of persons, places, animals and things are placed under the heading of NOUN.
Agreed and understood.
But English is such a naughty language, that it turns the nouns into verbs. We use them frequently without much observation. This time notice the words that are spoken from our mouth. Give a thought for their structure when they are uttered. The game of grammar reveals itself and our score improves automatically.

Game of Grammar

Let's take nouns. And check their verb forms as well.
 Water:
Water - its a noun, and we drink water whenever we feel thirsty.
Waters - is not a plural form but describes the water content of the rivers or oceans
Water as a verb is used in sentences such as
'Plants are watered well' or
'The boys is watering the plants' or
'I water the plants everyday'

Pen
Now take the noun pen
I bought a costly pen. (its a general usage as a noun}
He penned a nice poem in the memory of his uncle.
Penned - not much in general usage., mostly literary one. It's useage shows the language fluency of the person.
One can say 'he penned it well.'

Paper
This noun is an interesting one.
Paper is considered to be a material used for writing. We have colors added to it - white paper, red paper, blue paper etc
We read newspaper - Sheets of paper containing printed information and folded in bundles
Westerners live in wood houses where they cannot go for whitewash. They have their ways of decorating the interiors of their houses. That is through wall papers.
They 'paper' the walls with beautiful patterns. (verb)
Their walls are papered well.

Some verbs belong to the native speakers as we do not practise them here.
Wait for some more games in the coming days :)

-- noenglish

BACK TO THE ROOTS - spect

Back to the roots again.  This time let's go with the verb "to see"
Spect - which means to see -  is a latin word that acts both as a prefix and a suffix.

Many of its words are commonly used. There are around three hundred words in English that has spect as their suffix or prefix. To name a few...

Spectator - a person who is watching (a performance or sports)
Spectacle - a sight that has such beauty that is beyond description
Spectacular - a wonderful sight (adjective form)
Spectacles - the mirrors that are framed and mechanised as lenses to enable our eye sight normal

We have two psychology oriented words here
Introspect -this refers to the thoght flow that enables us to exam one's own feelings and thoughts.
This is the verb form.
Introspection is the noun form.


Another verb form is to inspect. To look inside of the issue or a place or a thing
The educational officials inspect the schools annually once. And the person who inspects is called an inspector :) School inspection time used to be the most well remembered period even to this day :) CHildren are dressed in the neat sparkling uniforms and footware. They are sent to the school with great care and preparation for each subject. The students' answers measure the teachers' performance. Hence the tension is shared by the teachers as well.
Finally it is clear that we inspect because we suspect :)

We have around 354 words containing this root word Spect

--noenglish

Bolnedo re bechari ko

Teaching is like preparing a weather report and wait for the rain to fall or the sun to shine.If the weather report says it will rain, sun shows his might. And vice versa. A class also is the same as the sky. Anything can happen at any moment. This experience taught me the best of my teaching career.
First let's go through the details.

. That was 2010.
I joined in a new institution.
Preivously I worked in an all girl college. Now its a co-ed one. 
My first experience of working in a co-educational institution.
The boys and girls were in the class.
I had a word wit the principal of the college.
He was a man of around forty years. Not so fair complexion. He spoke with a concern over the change in generation. How they wisted their ways to suit the purpose.  was just smiling and nodding to his words

After half an hour he called in an ayah, and asked her to take me to my battle field.

The class room was located on the first floor. Hammayyy.a... I thought. Now at the place, where I could take charge of the situation. Everybody in the class was speaking loud and it sounded like a busy mandi on fridays. The boys were moving from front bench to the last. And the girls were busy with their gossiping. Some are looking at each other and pasing on the news that new faculty had come to teach them.

Here I took charge of the place near the board and wrote the title of the topic. No use. No silence
Next made a sound  or two with the duster. No use. No silence.
I could feel the levels of helplessness increase inside the mind.
What to do... How to do.. SHould I shout... I never believed in shouting.
I was standing there silent, enjoying the view of a disorderly class. THe principal peeped once or twice. And went on his way without saying a thing. Now its time to do something.

I asked the class "do you people wish to go through a lesson or not. As it is the first session for me I leave the choice to you."

One or two students looked at me and simply continued their conversation.

That was the last straw for me...
I moved to their benches, caught the roaming students in the class and dumped them in their benches. And hit the book hard on the bench. All the class fell silent and looked at me. "Why are you making noise?
"Today no class ma'am" pat came the reply.
I didn't know what to say. Yet I thought fast and asked "why?"
"We are in no mood for it."
"But I'm here means I have to take the class."
"NO" the class shouted in union.
 I told them "let us make an agreement. How much time are you all ready to spare to listen to the lesson?"
They looked in disbelief at me.
I said "yes, I'm ready for it. Now tell me."
One of them from the class in a meek voice commented, arrey... boldnedo re bechari ko.
I was stunned. Wow... its me the bechari... :)
I said to myself, ok cool... calm down.
I turned to them and said, "look I;m going to finish the lesson in ten minutes."
Took the chalk and started to explain.

Teaching a lesson to the students takes at least three classes. That's my usual ritual of explaining. How to finish a lesson that takes one hundred and eighty minutes of explanation in just ten minutes? Can I do that? There were the questions that went racing on my mind. Yet I encouraged my self - chalo ek experiment ho jaye...

Once the explanation started it went on till the end of the class time, the bell rang. And I smiled at the students.
Ma'am this is cheating... they all shouted in naughty smiles.
Yes my dears, I must, because I've to teach you so I learned from you :)

-- noenglish

Love for a root word

We have a very bad reputation of demeaning our vocabulary levels. We demand the writer to writer according to our vocabulary levels. Any two or three words that trouble us, make a judgement that this writer is not of my level. its a waste to break my head over the high standard of words there. 

Its good not to trouble over such instances. But learning a language needs some headache, some tongue twisting and then comes the sweet reaping crop of fluency of the foreign tongue. Some very rare souls are there who die for the words of high caliber. They love to break their heads to learn them, use them and feel superior to others.  Some root words are there to form words for those lovers of languages.

Root words are the basic word form that helps to form a word that suits the occasion. Phile s one such root word. It is derived from Greek and means to love. Thinking about the good and bad of humanity with love and affection makes one a philosopher.. That type of writings including those thoughts is named as philosophy. 

Some common words derived from phil are philanthropist, and bibliophile. 

A person who donates generously for the causes that promote welfare of poor and the needy is known as a philanthropist.

A person who has a great love of books is a bibliophile (phile here rhymes with FILE}

A lover of words is a Log-o-phile.

So, better to find where your and my "phile" is..

-- noenglish

Sleeping Angels in the Class

/Today I played the role of a student for a great duration of two hours. Sleep was pouring in. The faculty goes on speaking pouring out loads of information. I tried to listen with eyes closed. First, it went on well. Later, for a minute I found myself half way to sleep. With a jerk, I straightened myself and adjusted to a good careful posture of attention - keep the hand supporting the chin and eyes open to follow the info. What a revelation duration it was.... :)

A person who is teaching to a group of individuals is a teacher.
A teacher needs to be hundred percent active.
Must be ready with a bank of ideas of two hundred ways to catch the attention of the individuals of the group.
The ability to connect with the minds of all levels.

What a student needs...
is the patience to sit at one place for hours.
The limbs may shout thousand times yet the face should look attentive.
He may boast of the acting abilities of Oscar award winning category.
Feel bored yet look interesting at the person on the stage.
May feel like running away from the class, yet he has to stick to the place/chair in the class.

May feel sleepy yet try hard to keep the eyelids ope with a great difficulty.

What they do is..
Find a better position so that they wont be seen easily.
Support the chin with the cup of the hand, with eyes closed and keep a book in front of you, to make the onlooker admire your focused reading abilities.


How precious it is to feel sleepy
How natural it is to experience boredom
How good it is to sleep and the people who sleep are those Angels on earth in mortal forms.
Sleeping in the class is an art!

--noenglish

Test How Good you Walk

Now on wards make it a note to observe your standing or sitting or relaxing positions. Whenever you feel stress in any particular muscle part of your body, change the placement of your legs or shoulders. This automatically reduces the stress and makes the seat comfortable. Our way of walking also carries our body language.

These mistakes occur even when we are walking. Some have this habit of swinging their hands and arms part in the air long. This causes trouble for others who walk beside them. 

Some walk with head bent down. This causes stress on neck also. And this shows lack of confidence and timid nature. So always walk with your head held high. 

How to correct the faults in walking 

* Draw a line on the floor with a chalk

* Take a hard bound book and place it on your head.

* Stand on the line 

* Keep your chin parallel to the ground.

 * Hang the hands loosely on your sides.

* Take a deep breath. 

* Looking straight with a broadened shoulder, start walking on the line carefully.

* Take care that the book remains on your head as long as you are walking. 

* Once you achieve perfection in this, try with wet foot.

-- noenglish

Back to Body Language

Our silent vocabulary has its sign boards. These are the combination of postures and gestures. When we talk, our hands move according to the mood, tone and expressions of the face. Our body also takes position to accompany them. So this silent language of the body accompanies us while talking as well. 

In general a posture means the position in which we hold our body upright while standing or lying down. The word posture is derived from the Latin ponere - means to put or place. 

Posture includes training our body to stand, walk, sit and lie in positions. It opts for the least strained positions. Muscles and ligaments are a part of these postures. If we are afraid or tense the muscles take stressful positions. They stretch relaxed way when we are happy or without tension. When we know this, it becomes easy for us to train ourselves to have stress free body language. 

Remember some of the positions where you intentionally stress a particular part of your body. 

Sitting tight at the edge of a chair

Digging the floor with your big toe of the foot

Feeling helpless and leaning over a chair or a table.

There are many such positions where we strain our body to transfer the mind's stress. This body posture reading makes the other person read your mind and measure your stress or tension.  

-- noenglish

Dialogue with Diary

I'm not able to agree with the serene cover page for the book.

Whenever I look at it, I could hear my heart's refusal to settle with the exterior serenity. "How could a creation happen with a cool and balanced mind. We chiselled ourselves and each piece is the word that you have written and feel proud of. But my dear! writing is not that simple act. It's a tsunami that carries us to the shores where the destruction of something results in the creation of a new world. It destroys the writers peace of mind, serenity of the heart, or takes him on flight or bleeding foot to the places unknown.

Yes...

Writing is never a simple act.

It appears simple. It's vocabulary sounds simple. The lay out on the page looks calm. The alphabet carry the laughter or the melancholy of the heart. They even stun us with a different mind frame. But the birth place of the alphabet is the war field in the mind's vision. There the writer sees something that touched his heart or disturbed him to the eternity. This results in the blank ink spreading on the page or the laptop screen.

The lines that spread over the pages release the writer from the heart's heaviness or the mind's madness or souls soliloquy or the momentous silenc.
I welcome you all to my world that carries the moments of turbulence, pain, agony, ecstasy, a blind war within.
Every page of the book is the heart and mind's dialogue with each other. One overpowering the other. When do they come to terms with each other, then is born the Diary of their Dialogues.
Dear all welcome to "Dialogue with Diary"

My baby is getting ready to be born to be in your hands.
Just a few days wait.
The count down has begun. 

-- noenglish

Body Language - fact or fiction

Let us take look upon the other part of our body language. Body language, in general, shows the natural responses. They originate in the mind and spread to the various body parts according to the connectivity. When we are happy our lips relax a bit, eyes carry the smile as well, and the neck stays straight. 

When we feel the sadness, the eyes carry the seriousness of the thoughts, lips tighten, the chin stays slant. Extending further hands too come into the scene and cup the cheek in the hand as though supporting the neck as it could not offer any support. Observe the occasions carefully, when you had come across such postures in the recent past.

Previously we discussed about the details of facial expressions. Eye contact is the most effective tool of the face talk. Individuals may train themselves to hide their intentions and look good on face. They successfully control their facial expressions. Their eyes look bright and confident. They might be dying of fear inside. How to transfer the fear and where?

Observe carefully. And remember there are other parts of the body that are moveable. The hands and the legs. The inner fear is transferred to either the hand movements or fixing the legs. The hands positions are called Gestures. Postures are the placement of legs that reflect the shades of thinking of a person. 

Observe the above pic carefully and every day count the occurrences when you come across these postures and gestures. The interest towards humans and keen observation of their body movements is hte only way to learn the rights and wrongs of body language. 

The psychology of a person is reflected through these cues of the body. We could control our hasty gestures and postures and even the facial expressions with a few self taught sessions. Learn slow and apply with patience. We are sure to understand ourselves and others too with a good base of information. 

Some more facts about postures and gestures in tomorrow's post. Stay tuned dears!

-- noenglish

Today noenglish reached its 2000 views

 Thanks to all dears for making this blog complete its 2000 views. As I look back from the day I started this blog on June 1, 2018, learned the art of writing anew each day. It expanded my view about me inwardly and at the world too. My hearty thanks to all!

 

 

 IT was just that thought of relieving myself of the thoughts that disturb me  suggested to start writing as a diary. But on a second thought I told myself why not a blog. It would record my thoughts, ideas and experiences. Teaching is my identity. Every thought starts with it and surrounds it.

It has taught me many things. Made me a learner before I think about commanding my lads.

To have patience before I lose it.

To empathise before I punish them

To make a mind plan before I take up the activity.

I grow with each batch of students - learning and unlearning it. 

 

It was way back on 1st October, 2001, started my innings.

The first ever demo of the class I taught was Sarojini Naidu's poem.

Young, innocent, clever, naughty, curious  students staring at me. Some are ready to give me a cue or two back to take for. I sensed the intention from their faces. Automatically a smile came on my lips. I'm, suddenly, at ease. I told myself, yes they are listening. They liked it, yet they want to show a bit of themselves. Relax. Now its the time to prove. 

I gave a long stare towards them and said "As students you had been through ten years of English. Now without a second thought tell me which part of speech is - IS"

Their eyes gave a look as though commenting - is this a question worthy to test our acumen...

My lips smiled again. I said,"I'm new to the profession. Take your liberty. Give the answer without a second thought. You have every right to make a mistake."

I continued with the girls, one by one, the answers poured in.

preposition

adverb

pronoun

adjective

"This is the time to tighten the grip. And prove my point." 

I found the way to show I'm THE teacher. 

 

Took each one to task. Had an elated arguments why it is a preposition

It comes before a noun ma'am. 

Give me an example,

He is a doctor. See it came before the noun.

Wow...good... I said. 

Why it is an adverb.

How can it be a pronoun or an adjective. For these too their point of view followed. I learned how differently we can view things.

:) :) :)  

Then I asked them one more question

What is the past tense form of IS

All at once the answer uttered - WAS

Now tell me which part of sentence is -IS

NO need for the answer... They identified their mistake.   :)  :) 

 

All the class gave broad grin. 

Once they smiled means I'm in as a faculty. 

Its my first practical lesson of body language. 

Sleep like a fish

In our body face is the most prominent one. It has many parts that actively take part in communication.
The forehead frowns.
The eyes sparkle.
The lips smile
And even we tilt our head towards whom we like, wish to make friendship or even enjoy the gossips.

All these movements of parts of our head made it a prominent part to speak without language.
Eyes are the best part that contributed words such as look, stare, glance, peep etc.
Each one has a different impact and different level of activity to reflect our mind.
Look is a casual activity
Stare is a fixed look towards an object of attention
Glance is a quick look
And peep is the secretive observation done through a creak of a window or a hole
We have this naughty activty - wink
Eyes have their nature as well.
We have twinkling eyes, watery eyes, sleepy eyes, hooded eyes, protruding eyes, upturned eyes, down turned eyes, close set eyes and wide set eyes.

Blue eyed persons are considered to be more glamorous. Some have them naturally and some go for a lense artificially. Green eyed monster - the emotion called jealousy is prevalent in both men and women. When they turn yellowish,  undoubtedly they are affected by jaundice.

Eyes are the most sensitive parts of our body. We stare continuously at our mobiles or desktops. They develop troubles such as dry eyes or red eyes. These are to be treated with proper medical care. 

Eyes also give away hints of stress, happiness or unhappiness. We may smile with lips, but it is the eyes that tell the truth whether you are really happy or not.
Lastly, one fact that is stranger than a fiction. Fish stays in water. And it is the only creature that sleeps with an open eye. Why because it has no free moving eye lids or eye lashes.  How logical is nature!

-- noenglish,

A Language without Alphabet

We all carry a language unspoken, unknown, yet very familiar and inescapable.
It has no alphabet
It has no syllabus
It has no text books
Yet it's teachers are more sought after.
It's application has no boundaries.

Put a finger across your lips... shhh... it's a sign for silence

Put a hand on the bike's handle and your foot on the pedal, your body is speaking that it's ready to move

A simple wave in  the air could give two options either come here or dont come 
Yes, it's the language spoken by our body.
We commonly call it Body Language.
Its very important to move our body parts in a controlled manner to reflect the efficient use of body language.
It's alphabet is divided into three groups
One is Facial expressions
Second is Gestures and
Third is the Postures.

Each division has many alphabet that help us in speaking the most civilised way. and impress the authorities or elders. Secondly, it's absence also expresses how closer the other person is and how familiar we are to each other. We have to know when to apply it or not to. That just belongs to the common sense part of a human.
Let's learn the words that describe each movement of our body parts that depict in perfection.

How many likes you got

From mother tongue, we move to the art of making words. Languages have different methods of making words. Before we proceed further let's refer to those methods opted in making words.

Like Unlike
These two words remind me of my confusion of their frequent usage as icons on Facebook. When I opened my FB account way back in 2008, this like vs unlike used to poke my mind. How can the word Like be used as an antonym for Unlike. Actually its Like Vs don't like and Hate stands as an antonym for Love.

Some more food for thought!

Sometimes social network sites promote particular words with a meaning altogether not applicable to it at all. Here we have these two words LIKE and UNLIKE. The vocabulary on Facebook, we see these two words placed side by side.
Like - is taken for the equivalent of liking the pic or the status or the video.
Unlike - this word is considered that the reader did not like the post or the status or the pic or the video.
Coming to the observation of the meaning of these two words gives us how wrongly we use words with wrong applications.
According to the grammar rules Like is a verb. 
eg: I like the film.
Liked is the past tense form.
But Facebook changed the grammatical verb into a noun. And we often hear this "Look! my pic has one hundred likes.
Or
My posts never get likes at all. I don't know why.
Or
How many likes you got?
Unknowingly we are influenced by the applicability of the word and started to use it as a known very comfortably.

Let's get back to the word's meaning once again.
It is used to mean to enjoy or approve of someone or something.
Usually we say
I like to hum melodies while driving.
You like her, don't you?
 Now see the drastic change in the usage of the word.

Now let's look at 'Unlike'
This word's meaning is "different from" and comes under the category of Preposition.
Monica is a shy girl - unlike her younger sister!
The Tech fest went well, unlike the previous year when very few people came

Another meaning is 'similarity' in ways of behaviour or appearance.
eg: My sister looks like me.
Your brother is not like you. {similarity in appearance/ways of behaviou)
Unlike - Different from, not similar

Such is the power of the social networks. The social acceptance makes right to be used in a perfect  way that is very much wrong. It's not a matter of right or wrong. Do you used it or Don't.