Kids and Car Seats

Wanted to share an important thing for people with kids. Recently saw some videos and read articles. The result of that is this post.

Sometimes we are in a hurry (always hurry when heading out with kids, isn't it?), we forget to put car seat restraints and/or belts. Neglecting for reasons like short distance, local roads only etc., while we make sure our seat belts are secured before we start moving. One can think they drive safely, be cautious and proactive. But you never know what other drivers will do. Some may want to jump red lights while you think to go on green, want to look at phone for changing music or attend some notifications while driving and forget to notice stopped vehicles ahead of them. God forbid if something bad happens you might have chance to escape with your seat belts but your kids will have to suffer the consequences. It might permanently ruin their lives or can't be the same ever.

Please always remember to spend that extra minute (yes, under 60 seconds) to make sure your kids are secured in their seats. Nothing is more important than making sure your kids are safe. Still accidents may happen, but you don't have to regret yourself for the loss lifelong.

#ChildSafetyFirst #KidsSeatSafety #FastenYourKidsSeatBeltsToo #PhoneCanWait #BetterUnreadThanDead

Note: this article below is not related to seat belts. This is purely driver negligence.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/devastating-crash-footage-grieving-family-13312655?ptnr_rid=1140666&icid=EM_WalesOnline_Nletter_News

Ignorance is NOT always a bliss

I realized the importance of getting a degree out of IITs and IIMs much much later in my life. When I finished my 12th grade, I didn't know about those institutions and even knowing at that time wouldn't have made any difference. 

I have seen some of my neighbors forcing their kids to study and prepare for some exams which I thought was too much. Now I say their parents had a vision. Of course forcing your interests to your kids isn't good. But the intention is for good which most of the kids don't realize. 

After I got a degree and when some fortune wind landed me somewhere good, I suddenly started getting surplus information and gaining a lot of knowledge which I often felt I should have got & used it much earlier in life which would have placed in a much high level in life. 

So why this post? Whenever I happened to read the life story of a famous person in terms of business or my related technology field, I look into their renowned educational backgrounds, esteemed degrees and universities and feel what I missed to do in my life. So I conclude that getting a good degree from a good college/university/institution is always good and puts you far ahead in this competitive world. 

Zzzzz....I miss you!

Modern day life style makes our sleep life terrible. There are lot of things to do and there's only 24 hours in a day. And most of us start using your phones and tablets in the bed, as if we never checked it at least once during the day. Gone are the days where people slept before 10:00 pm. And staying till 11:00 pm or 11:30 pm was considered very very late. Nowadays 1:00 am or 2:00 am is nothing but another hour in the clock. I see it every other night.

So what happened to us? Why we started to think that sleep is not needed very much? When did things started to take precedence than our health? Blame the changing life style and ever growing technical advancements. TV channels are now providing 30 hours programming and there's a zillion channels/shows/games available anytime you turn on your entertainment devices. 

We start accumulating our problems and keep postponing the effort for fixing them. "Let's do it now and sleep later" has become a very common attitude. As long as you can eat, walk, talk we think we are healthy enough. The change needed much now is the attitude towards life & health. For baby boomers, it's a tough ground to break.

The reason why I started to write this post is, I miss "My Sleep". When some new movie/series show up in Netflix, I get this urge to watch it now. After 9:30 pm, time runs like a river and next you see the time it shows 11:30 pm. Wow, so quickly two hours drifted. iPhone's & iPad's are easy to get distracted. Though I check the same statuses and messages in Facebook and twitter, I checked it a few times.  Not to blame my growing toddler, who wakes up past 4:00 am.What a life man? Before computers, I didn't have any problems for sleeping. No late night TV Programs, movies. Once I got a computer, I spent countless hours doing something to be sleepless. From there it started and still continuing. 

Nothing is going to change in day one! as more and more things get added up, my sleep is getting far far away. Lets see, If I can fix a little bit of my sleeping routines. Hope there's still HOPE...

To Infinity and Beyond!

I have this great interest in understanding the celestial objects. After settling in a job, I got a lot of resources on the internet to help me understand them. I get questions (from myself) that I find hard to get answered and so far it's been a success. Thanks Wikipedia!

Space is a wonderful thing. the final frontier. SciFi movies are a great inspiration and amazing stuff I get to know. It helps my imagination and understanding of various things about space. Nowadays people learn or know more about space, universe etc., But I still feel the need of these things to be thought in schools with better illustration.

Not many of them know about space-fabric, black holes, galaxies, nebula etc., Talking or reading about them opens my mind in zillion ways. Recently I learned about orbital velocity when I had a question of how satellites and spacecraft travel for a long time and revolve around earth/planets. Sound can't travel in space as there is no air. So it's death silent out there.

And nowadays the topic of mars exploration is getting stronger that I am hearing news about corporations/agencies selecting people for one-way trip to mars etc., To the science part of it, I understand very little. But from a common man's perspective, I can boast that I have more knowledge (or may be not).

Also there's an increasing number of addition to the list of habitable planets (earth like - exoplanets) in other solar systems. Existence of other solar systems itself is a great learning as we always see only one sun everyday! Voyager spacecraft is said that moved out of our solar system into heliosphere. First ever man made object that had traveled that much of a distance.

Space debris - another thing to worry about. There's more debris than satellites in your orbit. There are various theories/plans to clean/collect the space debris.

Wikipedia has more information about everything than anything else in the world and its growing every second we speak of. So friends, put some flame in your mind to understand things like this. these are amazing.

There's no end for knowledge! Keep Exploring...

Back to Blogging...

Want to get back on some serious blogging. Let's see, I am quoting the "No time" mantra for many of my undone things.

Life is Short. Live Yours!

Have you ever had a thought like "You always want to achieve or do something in your life and your life passes by in front of your eyes?" Of course, you would have thought. Every person have these kind of things.

After some tiresome work everyday, we will get one day to look back the path we came across. At that time, we will think how you started and where you ended up. That's the point in life. We really don't know the actual purpose until we end up in something, that gives the internal happiness in us.

Many of us are still searching for that. A successful business man may not be happy internally. So life goes on. All we have to keep in mind is

"Life is Short. Live Yours"

Gym Payment Cancelled :)

At last the long outstanding Gym payment cancelling got done. This month they didn't take any charge. Vishnu & I were doing a lot about the gym payment cancelling (though didn't do much workouts), It finally got cancelled.

Now need to look for another gym :)