Friday, December 28, 2007

Failure to follow English lectures drives students to commit suicide

When I read this article in Chennai Chronicle( DC ) news paper, I had remembered my plus two classes. I did my schoolings from Malayalam medium. When I reached plus one , I realized that I could not even read simple words meaningfully. I struggled a lot in those days. I will agree that without English, we can not compete with others or face an interview. The main reason is almost all knowledge and all informations are in English. In order to access knowledge we must need English. But I am not get depressed. " A student is who he knows what he don't know". Use the opportunities that we get in daily life...... this is my principle to improve myself
Mr. Thangam Thennarasu, the minister for School Education, Tamil Nadu says, "we have planned to set up English language labs for Tamil Nadu schools including those in rural areas within two years"( DC article). In my view it's a good move.Because in Tamil Nadu, children are not at all giving importance to their education.Besides the English labs, computer labs are also very essential for students.Psychologist R.Manoj points out that" it is not the cultural differences that compel students to commit suicide and it is the low motivation levels. The students who come from Tamil medium to professional colleges are generally the brightest in their schools and they are not prepared for such a drastic change . It takes them a while to adapt to the new environments"( from DC article). I think determination can change every thing. Through small small experiments we can change ourself ......... don't expect a sudden change.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Silly things........

Actually there was no core topic to write. So I decided to write about my life problems.Actually these were not happy days for me. I will always have stomach problem if there is any food change or climate change. My diagestion system was totaly broken down for last three days. I couldn't eat.... Full day sleep, no need of food and water. And I had diarrhea also. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarrhea. I had some ayurvedic medicine, But it took three or four days to recover from this disease. In bed rest time I read wiki pedia about diarrhea and how to prevent that. I understood that these type of studies give me more knowledge, satisfaction and even relief than a casual book study.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

First Home Visit....lessons and experience

On 18 th december I had gone to home from chennai. It was a sudden decision.It didn't have ticket till 7.30 p.m on that day. God grace, my friend took a chennai - allapee general compartment ticket for me. It's cost only 150 Rs to chennai to allapee. And we decided to get the seat when the train come for parking. But unfortunately we missed the trains arrival for parking. When we realized that the train already had come in the station, we ran for seat. But the rear compartment's seats were already filled.Then we ran for front seats. At the end of the marathon we got side seats.I had got some kind of relief then, because the thought, "I can have homely food and air for 3 or 4 days". But I really struggled to move that night in train.I couldn't sleep, But I had tired. One thing I understood on that day was, bring or buy some good water and food before getting into train even if you are not at all hungry or thirsty. It is very difficult to book and get the train tickets in chennai. My friend said main reason for that is some mafias are working behind that.They will book the tickets at the opening day itself and sell for more money.