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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Mangoes at California....Adai,Aviyal at Tiruchirapalli

Orange is a city located in Orange County, California. California is a state of fruits and nuts...My granddaughter calls her new house in San Jose as orange trees' house and she is studying in school   Appleseed  Montessori at Sunnyvale CA..My daughter works in Kaiser Perrmanente Medical Center,Santa Clara  CA which she says is next to I pad,etc maker Apple Inc. 
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Apple is an American multinational technology company that is  headquartered in Cupertino, California, which  designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services

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Many cities,counties,states in USA  are having names related to fruits.

I recollect one place Tiruchirapalli in Tamil nadu where we have lived for six years from 1988 famous for sugarcane,paddy, banana fruits, mangoes,etc .It was pleasure for children to climb trees and pluck mangoes,gua fruits  and eat after sharing with others. I remember my elder sister Lakshmi who visited us at Tiruchirapalli once asking in our language Tamil Malayalam ..''Raghavaa ..oru perakkai.. porichu tharaya..meaning   Oh Raghava will you  pluck and get me one gua fruit ??? Incidentally I recollect her staying at Mayavaram Lodge , Tiruchirapalli and getting me  Adai Aviyal,etc there   My eldest sister Parvathi who visited us once during Mahamaham  festival of Kumbakonam on 18 th February,1992 also tasted the mangoes and accompanied us to Kumbakonam for seeing the festival and  Jayalalithaa on her birthday.. Magam star.
Mango pickles like Avakkai,etc were  made,distributed to relatives and stored in ceramic jars for whole year and ripe fruits eaten .. Ofcourse my spouse took care of selling  surplus fruits,coconuts and drumsticks at very good rates and saving  money from the proceeds . In addition there were  many coconut trees in the house at Thillainagar, Tiruchirapalli ..with tender coconuts,the sweet water and the coconuts from a number of trees  providing us cool water, coconuts for making daily dishes like sambar,koottu,chutney,etc.

Here in Fremont CA at our son's house, we have the following trees,plants, grapevines  growing fruits.

Grapes,
Pomegranate,
Apple,
Kiwi fruit,
Pear,
Avacado,.
Plum,
Gua ..a variety,

Orange and lemon plants are just  planted and are growing.  

There are twenty-four rose plants surrounding the house with different colours flowering in abundance during seasons.I pluck and keep one flower in front of lamp near the pictures of God..Goddess daily...

Bagavad Gita  says...

patram pushpam phalam toyam yo me bhaktyaa prayacchati |
tadaham bhaktyupahritamashnaami prayataatmanaha || 26 ||
 
One who presents a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water with devotion to me, I will consume that loving gift from that pure hearted being.

Tomato large size and small suze ...... ..
..Cherry tomatoes or grape tomatoes ..as called  are grown throughout the year in large quantities ..

It is in daughter's new house at San Jose..near  Cupertino,CA we have trees of orange, lemon and naarthangai grown in large quantities throughout the year and thus granddaughter calls is Orange Tree house  .

It is tasty and medically healthy to eat some of these fruits..

We eat apple daily .as we have heard...An apple a day keeps the Doctor away....

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Nature...a book of wonder

Fall...rainy day...  Fremont..CA.. Temperature 16 degree FH. .Minus 8.888 degrees Celsius... .With 2 grandchildren at Fremont  and others at San Jose Tears falling in fall while  thinking of leaving them in Winter beginning. Keep us cool ..Cold  and shivering..Chilling...Thanuthu verakkaradhu.. In our language Malayalam.......and  compelled to  stay indoors... Sine die..

Adjournment sine die (from the Latin "without day") means "without assigning a day for a further meeting or hearing".

..Roots of plants and trees stay safe underneath ground .....All leaves of  trees fall...Some turn pink or yellow... Waiting for spring for more trees,plants,flowers to blossom.... Beautiful indeed....Our life also passes through such seasons one after the other...in Economics we see trade cycles,in Politics we see changes ....All these are wonders of Nature....I studied in school..A book of wonder is a book of Nature...And realised the veracity of the statement...

All achievements of science and technology are marvels of Nature...

Science develops every second through new discoveries and inventions....Caused by mother nature ...

Seasons.. . Start on.....
Northern Hemisphere...
SpringMarch 19th -
SummerJune 20th -
Autumn/FallSeptember 22nd -
Winter... December 21st - 

Friday, December 02, 2016

Thou spread Watson.....

Thou  spread Watson....
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Thou tweet ,blog and teach that,
What is a Watson feat,
Wake me up from slumber night,
Poke me learn a little bit.

Tutored me use Tweeter,
Who was a gluttonous eater,
Expand the cyber world matter,
Facebook,Tweeter and blogs you author.

Memory through chips infinite,
Knowledge of software definite,
Possessed by you through academic study,
Enlighten humanity in all and sundry.

Big Data ,Cloud and all the mainframe,
Perceive the advent Watson's name,
Dive us swim into unfathomable depth,
Beneath the Computer enormous wealth.

Shall I list a few I read,
Watson the latest uses made,
Cognitive intelligence Machine Pave
Excel human brain capacities have.

Digital revolution going on,
Cognitive Fraud Prevention,
With behavioral Biometric Notion in vicinity,
Staples entry button and data work with Cognitive Capacity.

Build the Student Project,
With Cloud development in a state great,
Cognitive Music with IBM Watson,
Cloud solution for Spectrum resolution.

Many a cloud that turns into catastrophe daily,
Prevents IBM cloud any calamity,
The floods that shattered Tamilnadu State,
Through incessant redundant waters spate.

Watson for Oncology in Hospital Corporates,
Blockchain  application in Corporates,
And Clever save Object storage ever,
Make us realise life in heaven dear.

No less is what is internet,
Of things that do in net,
Banks that launch chat bot,
Pepper robot I found in mall about.

Watson can help cyclists too practical,
Help predict the dreadful asthma bronchial,
Store objects on Terabyte scale,
Preparing for quantum safe cryptography style.

Virtual tutor for students tricks,
Cognitive Fraud Prevention with Biometrics,
Big Data for corporates to use going on,
Analytic to power through businessmen,

Healthcare data for population,
Online tools of Platform motion,
Step by step guide for beginners in eulogy,
Through use of Blockchain Technology,

KYC compliance and Cancer Drug
resistance,
Assist the  humans for eternal existence.
Supply Chain finance solution  for Mahindra giant,
Cloud provider for American Airlines great.

These are the  sixty lines of a person unknown,
Who sees and learns  Watson platform grown,
Healthcare,Business and all forms,
Inventing solutions for all human problems...
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I see your Tweeter,Facebook, daily.....see Watson applications etc..
Good.
Congratulations.
Since Watson..IBM names appear can I put in my blog?
My parents wanted me become a
District Collector but I could not even become a Bill Collector
.When I read lessons  for my grandchildren from books, ,they call me a Reader Raghuven  Thatha. ..once I dreamt to become a Lecturer,Reader,Professor .in a College.

Neither could I learn much not cut ,copy and paste  from the learned in exams as computers were not there..
What to do???
Now thought of writing poems...as I  was told it was   one Seshappa Iyer who was called Shakespeare by the English people and thus thought of ancestral influence of such a person on me.