2010 - My New Year Note

2010 - New Year Note

2010 - New Year Note

Let the year pass without a cling
Of things we done good or bad
Resolute not to flip without being
Blooms that will make us feel life is not the end

It’s a new year in a day two
Let’s have some cheer and joy in mind
Be a bee that flies happily in akasha through
And loose our body case to be peaceful kind

I wish we can be even better to be good
To be kind and loving to all things living
Remove anger, hatred, jealously that in glut
Rise above high craving for dharma not spinning

Celebrate New Year festive without restive
Thoughts to those in pain and no where to begin
If can extend our giving hand a wonderful give
Of no return but just for pure delight for the season regain

Hope better days ahead for us to shine and feel fine
Giving up the desires of nots and receive blessing
From Gods and Gurus we transform to angels fame
Arrays of lights kept us in guide to bright shinning

As the clock of time ticks to next seconds slowly
I clasp my palm and sat in silent offering prayers
That we cling to adventure to another life journey
Another year passes opening its festive dawn layers

Wish everyone a shinning Happy New Year 2010
Thank You so much

Ravichandran Ceyon
29th December 2009

Pancha Ganapati Festival Greetings!!!

Pancha Ganapati Festival (21st December – 25th December)

It’s time for merry making once again! Pancha Ganapati is here and we’re in the mood to celebrate winter solstice (not so winter in our part of geographical area) but it is a wet season indeed. Introduced by HH Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami of Hawaii, Aadheenam few decades ago, it has since then became a celebrated Hindu festival on its own.

The reason of this festival is due the fact that Hindu families in the west do not have a proper celebration for their families when Christmas joy is in full swing by our Christian faith brothers and sisters. Hindu family kids tend to be in total lost. Thus, Pancha Ganapati was born in tandem during the Markali Pillyar month and to peak on 25th December each year. December too is a traditional month for Pillyar’s prayer season.

Kids will be having great fun fulfilling time with their parents, friends and relatives. Each day is observed with different themes and meanings; Ganesa is dressed and decorated as though He is coming out from jungle to bless everyone present. Friends and relatives are invited in this joyous occasion as well. They too will bask in this festival and are dressed in fine traditional Hindu dresses befitting the occasion, immersing in Hindu arts and music!

Meant to be observed in a home by Hindu families, however, it has created a new wave of public festival celebration in temples surroundings around the world. Hindu devotees in Malaysia, Denmark, and Germany, US, Singapore, India, Australia and many other countries have been observing Panacha Ganapati festival couple of years now.

Please check more info on the festival celebration and its significance on Gurudeva.org. We in Malaysia too would not want to miss this wonderful utsava. This year again, Sidhi Vinayagar Temple at Johor Jaya, Johor decorated Pancha Ganapati in full gears as it begun yesterday. Thus, the gift-giving festival commences and we are anticipating a wonderful celebration in festivity mood.

An abundance of presents are to be given away to kids and adults alike on the last day of Pancha Ganapati who Himself will be distributing the gifts. Our very own Santa Claus, Lord Ganapati is a great Giver of boons to our positive desires & needs.

Friends, I’d like wish all of you a Happy Pancha Ganapati & season’s greetings. May Lord Ganapati guide us to the paths of health, wealth and happiness. Please do inform your friends to come to our temple and receive immense blessings & darsan from Lord Ganapati himself.

Jai Ganapati

Winds of Change!!!!

Winds of Change

The Eastern wind gently blew the bamboo poles to a serenading sweet music and put me to sleep, and then it glides gently along the mountain range and blanket the forest to a cool rest.
It passes the beauty terrain that reign majestically with much like cotton mist, brushing along the green leaves and year’s old trees, resting viewing the bluish sky.

The Eastern gaily ruffles as it stokes the feathers of doves that fly across clear water lake. Water lilies carpets the icy cool fresh water, I could take a nap on its gentle petals.

The western winds bends and swirls to a perfect curl, raising melodious sound of music so melancholic, braces against the birds, bees with breeze and ease like stroke of paint brush on a gigantic canvas. Nature swells to a dancing dwell when the winds stopped to dance with green populace with such grace.

The western wind graces the eastern part, solar wind brew up to a magical fountain spring. Display arrays of light sparks, bursting to thousands watts charge vivid mass. The rest applauds in thunderous chorus of appease and pleased with change of the wind. Rest happily in winds of change.

19th December, 2006

Fond Memories Of Past

With Voon, my class buddy-1982
At AT&T's Annual Dinner & Dance - Enginnering Bala

My Korean staffs

With cousin Visvanathan

Segamat High School Hoceky Team - 1982

Primary 4 - Sekolah Bukit Hampar,Segamat

Form 5 Science 3 - Segamat High School - 1982

Segamat High School Prefect Board - 1982

Devi's debut , Veena Arengetram - The day!!

Amazing performance! 10 years of hard work, sacrifice from both teacher and student. Mrs Devi performed her debut - veena arengetram at TFA (Spore) on 29th December. My first attendance for a veena arengetram and from none other than my ever dynamic teacher, Ms Yogeswari Ramalingam.

Yoges teacher had moulded her into a fine veena player and in her footsteps, we have another brilliant veena performer and soon one by one other senior students set to follow similar pattern. Mrs Devi is the catalyst that will ball roll the rest.

It was an divine musical day, veena cords plucked endeared our tears. Moreover, Reverend Prabanandaswamiji(TFA, JB resident sanyasin) is there to witness the event and His reverend too was moved with her evocative veena play!!

Thanks to Yoges teacher and Mrs Devi for a wonderful evening and we were inspired.

Mrs Devi's Margam - Final preparation for Veena performance

We had a wonderful opportunity to have a sneak preview or rather a full view of Mrs Devi, senior veena student of Yogeswary teacher, TFA (Spore). A splendid margam that moved our emotion and tears. Thence, she had a brilliant solo performance last Sunday at TFA(Spore) to a full audience at Kanagasabai Hall.

A Wonderful Boss - An adventure with Mr Chai Kim Hian

Mr Chai Kim Hian, my current boss( General Manager) , is one the best bosses I ever had in my 23 years working career. A rare personality that combines personal touch, indirect pushing to get things move, a great motivator, wonderful change agent, a go getter, an never say never attitude and of course he is a great soul as well...

He had greatly changed the way things are done in our company. A farsighted person with tinge of Midas touch. He has that ability to mobilise everyone to be accountable to what they do. He gives us leeway's and never get angry( but firm) to all the mistakes we do. He took challenges with ease but eventually getting us moved with positive results.

Mr Chai is also a wonderful friend with great positive fun filled mind, makes everyone at ease and joyful, even at times when we have our greatest fears that things may go wrong!!! Mr Chai is very down to earth person who takes extra care of his workers and make point to listen and offers help as well provides advices when warranted.

Our company had made many positive changes for the past six years under his stewardship. It's not too exaggerating to say that he really had transformed us from a "smaller industry player" to an organisation that could deal with many world class MNC companies.

I'd reckon that that his inner glows radiates with strong spiritual believes he has close to his heart and with his able leadership, be part with us in our quest to be the best with pride, achieving the impossible, challenging us dare to dream the impossible had greatly revitalised our interest and zest to be number One or the best of the best.

He throws challenges, like "Be a world class Manufacturer by 2015" - pushing us to move forward without fear. He became a strong umbrella during recent stormy economic crisis and managed to pull us through with his prudent crisis management methodologies without pressing the panic button and when many other similar SMI companies falls flat, never to recover; we withstood this storm behind him, captain or our ship solidly.

We can't forget this moments of toil and hard work, reinventing and restructuring of manufacturing processes and streamline them to be an effective lean management outfit. Cutting cost where necessary, tighten purchases, reduce rejection and scraps, improve productivity, efficiency, excellent customer results, reorganize human resources, inject innovative idea participation from workers, create a fun filled environment and sense of accomplishment in our undertaking with clear objective.

It doesn't come easy for him as we had our resistance and apprehension at initial stages as how we can be a big time player competing with similar other manufacturing companies. He proves us wrong and we took his advices, ideas and grasp many good points from him and implement may seemingly simple ideas but highly effective he threw to us and we eventually saw the changes happening right in front of our eyes!! We realized we're having a marvelous "Captain" with a humble human heart leading us towards a challenging path. We are ready and shall move forward together with him and make our organization really a WORD CLASS!!

Mr Chai is surely a rare bread

We thank You and our appreciation

Pulai Desaru Beach - TM

MyOne Team Members

(Pulai Desaru Beach Hotel)

Movie Aadhavan - My review 6/10 rating

Chanced to see the latest Surya's movie, Aadhavan at Jaya Jusco, Tebrau City cineplex, last Sunday. The movie was basically an improvised and enhanced version, technically from combination of many old movies. Surya and Niyantara acted while Vadivello gave almost 90% of the comic relief. The technical advancement in many aspect of film making seemed being enjoyed by the movie goers.

Saroja Devi, the MGR era actress acted quite OK. Surya's animated face of 10 years age look was quite not polished enough to look real. Nevertheless, the idea Surya being a hired killer in the beginning is something difficult to digest with, but after the intermission, the plot changes....Well I would rate this movie 6/10 mark. If you're a fan of Surya, well you should enjoy this movie..he is still a crowd puller.....Those parets with kids, advice is needed...potray many violance sequence scenes not suitable to kids..

Deepavali performance - China Point, Chinatown (S'pore)

Navarathiri Performance - Sept 2009

Yoges teacher (TFA, Spore)

Yoges teacher - My vocal and veena teacher

Raji Teacher, TFA(Spore)

My vocal teacher, Raji teacher (Spore)

Deepavali celebration !!!

Kugin ( brother's son)
Jothi's son

Mum, Uma (cousin), auntie and Jothi's wife

Jothi's and Uma's kids

Me and my cousin Paramjothi

Vinod, his teacher and school mates

Trisha and her friends

Grandma and dad ( mum's line)