My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

Anybody reading this would be going over to the Beauty Queen contest, where in young girls walk on the ramp displaying - beauty, pomp, elegance, figures etc.  Yesterday, I  saw one such program.  Oh No go on visualizing beautiful girls in exotic locations,  what I was seeing was really distressing me  - No dont take me wrong - It wasnt the bodies were exposed, it was very vulgar, etc. It was all for wrong reasons, the beauties were extremely adorable, everyone whether a woman or a man would love to cuddle these beauties and give a good kiss full of love - Hold your breath - these were all aged 2 1/2 to 4 years old. and the next group was above 5.    These children were made to undergo the following as per the explanation given by the TV show program  The toddlers & tiaras .   On any given weekend, on stages across the country, little girls and boys parade around wearing makeup, false eyelashes, spray tans and fake hair to be judged on their beauty, personality and costumes. Toddl

This one word makes everyone have goose pimples, who ever they are, what ever they are, isnt.  And for every countryman, their Country is Best. One great appreciable thing with US citizens is their amazing patriotism which I would rate it very very high.  Everyone of them is made to think of serving their country by joining the Services.  Recently, I was having a conversation with a young boy who was going back to his Military Academy school.  all of us were taking the shuttle to the airport from Lawrenceville to Atlanta Airport.  I was so happy and proud to be talking to this young boy.  He belongs to a real military family - his grandmother had 20 years of service.  Both his parents are in Service.  His mother has 20 year of Service and she is now currently in Afghanistan.  The pride in his voice was so heavenly when he talked about what he wants to achieve in life - he wants to get into Navy as his first goal.  We were talking about drugs, the way the other countries prepare their

On travel in US during a bad weather is a very very terrible experience whether they are residents of US or people from far off countries like me.  It throws the entire travel schedule and especially if you have a back to back appointment in couple of cities, GOD be with you.  It is a terrible nightmare.  Thank God,  in all my earlier travels, especially in Jan/Feb, though I criss cross the US, I didnt face any such problem.  This time around, I am lucky to base myself out of Jersey city and then do the travel plan.  The best thing, I like about the weather prediction, is it is 95% reliable, unlike Ramanan, of weather Station fame, in Chennai, who has to make a ambiguous statement that it is likely to rain, drizzle, pour etc either throughout the states or the coastal region and you can safely leave your umbrellas in home and it is 90% opposite of what he says. The almost near forecasting  of the weather helps me to plan my trip nicely avoiding travel during that region or those date

This is one of the best things of USA.  The metro travel system goes like this: Amtrak is the basic train system which runs throughout America like our Railways Each major city or metro has its own metro train system Then there is a metrolink which connects to the distant suburbs from the city There is also the buses system which serves the cities linking the suburbs to the rail system For eg to go to San Diego from Los Angeles  You can take the Surfliner - The Amtrak service  which runs between Union Station, LA & San Diego.   This service is available throughout the day and it takes about 2 1/2 hours to reach San Diego.  In case you want to go to say a place in between then there is the Metrolink which runs from Union Station to say Oceanside (which is  approx midway between San Diego & LA) you have the the metro link and from Oceanside to San Diego you have a coaster.    The best thing is the integrated travel systems that are in place the trains stations have buses wh

America - The land of opportunities - This is what everybody says like that and everybody ( at least in India) believes that it is the end of the rainbow. yes - definitely this is a correct saying - each and every one finds an opportunity here - but for whom is this land the end of rainbow - for the young and not so young middle aged people. If you are ready to work and slog you can earn some money. I find that most of them here in America is kind of middle income group. At the same time, there are also neo rich - people who wear fashion clothes, drive BMW, stay in fancy houses, eat in great restaurants and it is party time for them. But for many others, it is like working all day standing manning the counter, lifting, loading heavy things around, etc. While on one hand, I am thrilled to see Senior citizens not thinking that their Age is a delimiting factor and continue to work, go out and do all things, but at the same time, I also pained to see that a 70 year old is driving a sh

I promised myself that I would write about America and my impressions while on travel, but probably, I am getting old and travel schedules are catching up with me that I couldn't honour my promise. Here I am in India, got bogged down with routines and trying to cope up with the day to day work... Anyway breaking free of the shackles, I am back to this blog write up. I wanted to share the funny coaching schools that have sprung up in US, atleast one in particular, about which I read about in Newspaper. There is this school which is for the first timers - guess what... The first timers to the jail and lock up. Nowadays with the white collar crimes increasing this school teaches or takes the enrolled students through - what is jail, what to expect out of it, how to be prepared for the hard life, the dos and donts, etc. As soon as I saw this newspaper article, I burst out laughing forgetting for a moment that I was in the airlines lounge with other passengers nearby. Look where the wor