Traveling to France? You need these.

It was not much of a task to find some frequently used French words that we need while in France. It is my son's first trip to Paris. He would be in Paris in a couple of days.

I searched for all the important words in French. In less than 2 minutes I found a big list of words and typed them out.

Here are they:
I don’t understand - Je ne comprends pas
Where? – Où?
yes - oui
no - non
Thank you - merci
Sorry - desolé
Help! - Au secours!
Do you have - Avez-vous
How much?- Combien?
I would like a room-Je voudrais une chambre

The funny thing is I studied French for two years at my college and I remember very few of the above.

Au revoir.

If you have money...

I saw this image in Facebook. It was posted in one of the members of Vaishnavisam eclass. Though such things would have been published online and offline, the message carries the potent when read in Tamil.






It seems this board is hung on a school classroom.

Looking for an upright electric bass with advanced features?

After responding to a local newspaper advertisement that said an upcoming band group wanted immediately a budding guitar player who is also comfortable with upright electric bass, my son went about in search of a used electric bass to practice.

Since he had three months time before he again went abroad, he decided to acquire some on stage experience with a new music instrument. As he had no idea on what kind of upright electric bass that the band group has, he called them to get the details. He was told that it was a Platino VE-500 model made of spruce.

My son is a self learner. He can pick up the features and nuances of any string instrument on his own quickly. Being an obedient son, he listened to my advice and hired an upright electric bass instead of buying a second hand instrument.

I was not at all surprised when he was hired for a short term by the band captain.

Why Kohli should lead India?

I adore Kohli and I fully support his views about the ugly Aussie cricketers and non-cricketers. He said he would like to give back to the abuses he received from Ben Hilfenhaus and the crowd. He did exactly that which of course was not liked by Ben Hilfenhaus.

But Ben and the Aussie cricketers and some Indian retired cricketers don't like what Kohli did and talked about. Why?

What is the fun taking abuses and bowing down? This is how my favorite Sourav Ganguly would have reacted and that is why he is loved by Indian cricket fans.

I feel Gavaskar's reprimand of Kohli's reaction is very cowardly. Please shut up Gavasakr! Don't keep losing all the respect you have earned!

Kohli, the only positive cricketer in the present Indian team is definitely the future captain of India!

Cheap resin jewelry molds.

I curbed my urge to reply to a question on who supplies resin jewelry molds for fun shapes because I could not understand what he meant by ‘fun shapes’. Did he mean ‘odd shaped’? I could have guided my fellow discussion board member if that was what he meant. I know one of my husband’s friends is in the business of jewelry design. He is a knowledgeable person about resign jewelry molds.

Long before, he took me on a tour of his factory which is restricted to only trusted people. I was awe struck when I saw a live demonstration of jewelry making.

The shed where the hand-made ornaments were crafted was temperature controlled for quick drying of the liquid in the molds. I was told that plastic molds are preferred by most of the jewelry makers over rubber or polyurethane molds over moulds maintenance issue.