It is been a month since the Union-Budget 2012-13 for our country.A futile attempt to de-code it a little for (y)our benefits.
Income Tax Exemption limit raised:Now 20% rate kicks in only above 10Lacs income and IT exemption limit has been raised to 2Lacs
Tax exemption on savings account interest income for up to 10,000rs
Infrastructure bonds tax exemption removed
Securities Transaction Tax reduced to 0.1%
Tax exemption scheme to encourage small equity investors-up to 50% IT deduction to new retail investors who put in equity with lock in period of 3 years
Immovable property buying(except agri) will involve TDS at the rate of 1% at 50L in urban and 20L in rural
Additional 5,000rs available to cover expenses for preventive health checkups for self and family
80C exemption for life insurance policy now at sum assured to premium multiple of 10 times from 5 times
Possible GST(Goods and Service Tax) roll out in 2013
Disinvestment target at 30,000 crore for this year
5000 crore venture fund for micro and small enterprises
Proposal to exempt low cost housing scheme from service tax
Little drops of blood save life-it is from this line- I
start this blog. This is primarily intended to instill people to donate blood
and salute those who are currently doing so. So what’s so bloody about it?
Blood donation in world:
There are 92 million blood donations worldwide and 45% of
donations are collected in middle and low income countries.People need to wait
for 56days before they give blood again and 3 days if they had given only
platelets.Safety procedures have increased manifold and now we only have
disposable syringes used in blood donation which which get automatically broken
after one is done. World Health Organization celebrates 14 June each year as
World Blood Donor Day since it is the birthday of Karl Landsteiner who
discovered the ABO blood group system.In Italy blood donors receive the blood donation as a paid
day off from work,Singapore Red Cross society presents awards forregular blood donors.
Blood donation in India:
Our country needs about 4 crore units of blood every year
out of which only 40lakh units of blood are available, there is no known
substitute to human blood. Normally 3 pints of blood is tranfused each time and
1 pint of blood can save upto 3 lives.Typical car accident victim could require
100 units of blood.
Sad fact is blood cannot be manfactured and happy fact is we
all have that and which gets replenished after giving. An adult has 10 units of
blood in their body and during blood donation they give about 1 unit.Not the
whole blood is used for a patient and all blood is separated into components as
Red blood cells, Platelets so each unit of blood can save upto 3 lives.
The number one reason donors say they give blood
is because they "want to help others."
Two most common reasons cited by people who don't give blood
are: "Never thought about it" and "I don't like needles."
If you began
donating blood at age 18 and donated every 90 days until you reached 60, you
would have donated 30 gallons of blood, potentially helping save more than 500
lives!
Universal
Donor: O- (negative) group
Universal
Receiver: AB+( positive) group
Life
of Blood Storage:
Whole
Blood : 35 Days
RBC:
42 Days
RDP:
5 Days
FFP
and Cryo: 1Year
Actor Chiranjavee in Andhra Pradesh did a noble act by
starting a blood bank and making an innovative campaign by giving his
autographed photos to every donor who did blood donation.That pulled lot of his
fans into donating blood.Stars in India should leverage their fan power to such
noble causes. Like Kamal Hassan does it for NACO and Surya does it for TANKER
foundation and Amitabh and Aamir doing it for polio.
Platelets donation confusion:
Recently there was an instance of platelet donation for a
girl in Cancer Hospital,Adyar.I had donated blood but never platelets and
googling it proved dangerous as it had some frightening facts. Asking in some
of my doctor friends and medi-staff painted another story.
Platelets donation can be done every 3 days
They take blood from us, discardiing only the platelets and
inject back the platelet free blood again into system
It is as easy a process like blood donation
Blood donation process:
You decide to give, making your heart bigger
in process
Fill up a form
Blood sample is taken and tests is done
Blood is taken out after checking for BP
Gets over in about 20 minutes
Also get our health stats like haemoglobin
count,BP, etc
Relax after drinking tea/juice and biscuits
Proud that you have saved over three lives
Just try it once it not just saves other's lives but more healthy for ourselves as well.
Oru Kal Oru Kannadi-Udhayanidhi-K,Hansika-Ok,Santhanam-Okay---Verdict-Double OK
One of the ardent fans of director Rajesh.Siva Manasula Sakthi and Boss Engira Baskaran were both massive hits.Very few directors who could
do justice to comedy and still making family entertainers.But the over-reliance on Santhanam is increasing since the first movie.SMS was both about
Jeeva and Santhanam,BEB was more about Santhanam and less about Arya and now OKOK is only about Santhanam and nothing about Udhaya.
Kudos for a producer to don a actor's hat by pumping his money into his production venture.Sports a sunglass throughout the movie including songs
for eyes are the only outlet of expressions and he brilliantly covers that.Dances pretty average and does okok comedy.Anything is less when sharing
screenspace with Santhanam.Emotions,Anger,Love all feelings are covered in the sunglass of "Saravanan".Kuthu number outside Sathyam Cinemas is one laudable
act.And great that he shared more screenspace with "Partha" who is more bankable than him though its his money in the film.
Hansika, cute,fat bubbly girl reminding of Khushboo,emotes well only when compared to Udhaya and does a decent job in songs,scenes, and chirpiness.
Sayaji Shinde,usual girl's dad role,Azhagam Perumal wasted,Saranya leveraged in her trademark comedy element.
And Partha who shoulders the entire film in his shoulders.With a debut hero and unknown heroine and worthy actors given unworthy roles, its this guy who pulls
the entire mylapore temple "theru" in his hand.Whole OK goes to this guy.Rajesh is one of the very few who pulls the best out of Santhanam.The way he acts,his scooter
and janavasa car and his ramarajan color dresses and his dance skills in songs, and his dialogues.They are the only fodder for laughter in the movie.It is said this guy
has his own lollu sabha team and discusses about dialogues every day and heard that he is much into spirituality."Fact fact",Carrom KS Ravikumar,Pondicherry modha bus tamizhan,
there are too many to relish.Santhanam is the only reason that the film is going to run.Everyone came in just for that reason and he did not disappoint.The way he emotes a dialogue of
a brahmin from mylapore and his jangiri episode,brings the theatre down.
Director Rajesh once said he would even make a movie without heroine but not without Santhanam, very true.
Great chorea and interesting locales for songs.Songs are a big drag in the movie and they slow down the pace of the movie.Steps have been thought knowing well the debut hero.
Music is OKOK and not upto the mark.We had awesome bgm from SMS from Yuvan and they are missing big time here.
All the usual elements of Rajesh movie:Guest role for Arya/Jeeva,TASMAC style comedy,Adult dialogues,larger than role for santhanam,hero's mom given good role are present in
ample amount in the movie.
First half is damn slow with two songs coming in quick succession for no reason and they put you a little bit down.Second half picks up speed thanks to "partha".
Overall-One time watch for "Partha" engira Santhanam
Here is my very old experience but still fresh in my mind.This post is not intended to boast that I care socially but a sincere attempt to invigorate people to do more for our under privileged sections of the society.
It had always intrigued me to do something for visually challenged people(blind is so much a negative word),Was looking around for opportunities to do something hit upon a chance to be a scribe to them courtesy a guy from Loyola College.Loyola College has special departments that teach courses for these special people and conducts exams as well.When these people study using braille books or audio visual aids, writing exams is impossible for them and there-in we could do our part.
I was fearful at first for the success and failure of the person whom I was writing was not dependent on him but on me and so I had to be doubly careful to doing it right.Overcame nervousness and went in for the exam.Ushered in the exam hall, and there was a bright guy sitting in the bench with all the hopes and no nervousness that we would typically associate with a student in exam hall.
A small tip or a tutorial for first time scribes could ease some pressure, but nevertheless it was not a daunting task.Question papers were given and this guy was asked 2-3 times of the exact question code for all depends on that.different people were doing different exams and so possibility of people eavesdropping were next to null.
One amazing thing was all these special guys had to remember and recollect every thing right from question code to exam pattern-vividly remembered the time when we used to check the paper code from the hall ticket.These people had to be doubly careful for they cannot afford to make mistakes.So all of them memorized even the exam codes and paper pattern.
This guy was so confident and wished me good morning and they had some basic etiquette and they understand that we are there to aid them and are more happy.He opened the discussion a little about his wishes that he wants to study nano technology and amazed me his area knowledge when I said I am hailing from Adyar, he asked do you come from near Madhya Kailash, I was humbled a little coz he knew what he was asking about and talking about.Then went on to explain what I do and he was more than keen to listen.These people listen intently for its some knowledge which they get it without much effort which otherwise they would have to if they were to learn it through braille books or audio visual
courses.
Exam bell rang,I got the question paper, he gave his pen.He asked me to read the big mark questions first-smart chap!. I went on to read both the question choices.He examined both and selected one.One thing to be remembered here even in this he has to make sure he remembers to remembers the first question choice and evaluate between both in choosing all in memory for we have an easy task in juggling between front and back as many times we want.
He started dictating, had an amazing memory power.When I started hearing the lines said by him I knew the stories I had essayed in many exam papers.He gave clear instructions and was damn particular in the way the layout of the answer had to look, I could not afford to do wrong for it was his exam and his efforts.One problem I found was these people had not written and so I had a tough time managing the speed in which he was telling, he was so quick for me for I had to stop him midway asking him again.I boasted myself that I could write in quick but with his dictation speed I had to eat my words.
I thanked myself for I selected English coz I could write in little quicker(had a harrowing time writing in Tamil-more on that later)started writing as quick as I can as legible as I can, i can afford to lose marks on my exam but this was his and so I had onerous responsibility to do it right.He was telling quick and fast and I had developed hand pain-first time in many years during exams-courtesy the guy.
Need to share with you an awesome thing that happened.There was a question to distinguish between private and public sector companies.and so he asked to me draw lines and that too only with pencil and so I asked I would draw one line-he asked me to draw two- i asked only 2 differentiation and so one line is enough and then he told me to draw two and so I did.
He asked me to write titles as "classification basis", "private sector", "public sector" Gosh,I kneeled before this guy.Since kindergarten days I would have encountered 1000s of classification questions many a time we have skipped those questions never drew lines in the middle and here was a guy asking me to put a title for the classification basis.
I completed the big mark questions and with him on the way I knew this guy would zoom in marks in this exam and then he came to short answer questions he was right to the point and even gave examples to quote for short answers.Meanwhile beverages were provided and I gave him which he plainly refused saying it is for us.I frankly dint want to drink it that time coz that is his exam time.we completed the exam right on time and this guy also had sketch pens to underline important points, I had to underline the whole paper for in all were important.
I did the same and felt damn happy for this guy.He happened to mention that he had flunked a paper and was repeating it that semester.He dint retort with a thank you-I still have not forgotten what he said-Thanks you wrote in real quick for I had tough time in some exams for people to catch up with my speed.My hands were writhing in pain but for a good reason.
I wished him all the best for consecutive exams and parted ways with that amazing person.
This experienced prompted me to undertake more assignments for such people and I happen to repeat it more than once after this episode.
Happen to write in Tamil for a guy in teachers training school in Saidapet. Found it damn damn hard to write in Tamil for it had been almost 6-8 years since I had written Tamil and all the more Tamil is different script compared to English and i wrote it in a peculiar way making it even more hard.and this guy had not read properly it seems.He happen to repeat the same thing again and again and I had to stop him to tell you had told already and he would come up with next lines for the question.We finished the exam and I bid him good bye feeling happy once again.
I request everyone of them to experience this rich feeling at least once in their lifetime.....
All the best for you all-not sure if there are scribe opportunities right now-but this link could prove helpful www.iscribe.co.in
