A delectable dose

I will pass on a favourite tip I received when I was a new mom, there are many of my additions too. The technology today is a little different but the results will be the same. 

My mother-in-law, has a suit that my husband wore on this 3 or 4th birthday (she is not able to re-collect exactly). A nearly 40-year old Silver Kada anklet used by my hubby (later his brother and sister) were preserved for my kids. This delectable dose of vintage charm is a treasured gift that I shall carry to the next generation.

For your newborn child create a monthly tape. Once a month, put your video camera /mobile device and sit down with your child and roll the video for 1 to 2 minutes. You will never realise who   quickly they grow and change right under your nose.


Take pictures at every stage/milestone. You would love it someday down the lane. In fact, I made a collage of my son's pic to make a banner for his recent birthday party. Our guests, specially  my parents enjoyed the display. Took time to recollect an incident related to that particular 'time'. I had put together pictures of his 1st day in hospital, no soon he was born; the next was, may be a-month-old baby; when turned over, to craw; 1st day in uniform, to school; and so on. 

Voice record his/her rhyme, with emm.. huo... Sounds. One such was the ring tone of my mobile, for long. The baby babble and mispronunciation: first gurgling vocalizations, to the entertaining and sometimes maddening long speeches. My son was a slow starter. But no soon he started, there was no stopping. He seems to be speaking in a language of his own. Now when i play him, we have a good time.


Smear a bit of pad ink on the little one's foot and take an impression, you would love to compare and see how the tiny pawprints latter turn to footprints. Sometimes when iam down and suffering from depression, loneliness, I take a look at the footprints, that I took when my little one was 3 months old. They remind me of the poem: Footprints on the Sand by  Carolyn Joyce Carty.  Similarly each picture carries with it, memories of some or the other incident. Life-changing or not, it is worth it!

Discuss all the new things that happened over the last 30 days. And pen down. We are doing this for our 2 kids. And plan to continue until they are 10. The results are awesome. We prefer to watch and read them time and again. Recently a old relative had been home, and we play one such video, and all loved to watching it. It is much better than any other movie or videos games.  Even kids love them, as they are the main character around whom the film revolves.. Wow Grandpa used to have hair!, Dad looked lean, Mom had long hair, …...Where is this frock now....that dress? Those shoes...

The nursery ID card, report card, test paper, all are preserved along with the class photo. Take a lesson or two from the  Montessori training class (a lot of material can be accessed on-line). They are not just for aspiring  Montessori teacher; young, 1st time parents too, need to know lots about sensorial work. These knowledge come handy in parenting. Learn a bit of  'child-psychology'. Most of the time you 'No' would mean 'Yes' to them. My son says 'tomorrow' when I actually means 'yesterday'.

Those ephemeral joys of childhood and initial years of the parenthood are just amazing. Take at look and recap those fine moments. Live the moment at the same time carry the memories so that you can live with it later too. There’s a mystery to be unraveled each time.

When I found the Profound...

To better-plan and balance the home- and work-life, an office close to home was what I was seeking initially; so that I could spend less on commuting, and more with family. But what I got in return was amazing, and beyond my asking.

Not just close enough to call it 'walk-able', it has all the best things an employee can ask for, put together. The woOw factor is the flexible timing. Like any other corporate office, we are required to stay in office premises for 40 hours a week but, the check-in and -out timings are not rigid, as long as one is able to keep up the deadline. This gave me a lot of flexibility to attend to my kids and their home work, make-up the PT meetings at school promptly, fix the leaking tap, re-fill groceries, visit bank, or any other task that otherwise would have called to apply for half-a-day's leave.

The 200+ that are employed here are young spirit, though remind me that Iam a decade older [may be Iam the only one who is dressed in saree most of the time] still, they make me feel young. The usual de-stressers are the carom, tt, and fussball. The bigscreen of the plasma TV for the cricket lovers, is definitely quotable. We have a few serious cricketers who would make up to challenge the internal teams to the out-doors, during week-ends, of-course. The latest in-line is the IRC ---Impelsys Runner's Club. Meet you at the Bangalore Midnight Marathon in Dec !

Within office space, we are very happy for it is fun to work in such an ambiance. Every Monday, the HR team brings to us something amazing, true and inspiring stories to get rid of the Monday blues and to energize the team for the day and for the week ahead. Mid-week, we get to know more about a couple of colleagues through the culture of 'know your colleagues' whom, we otherwise would have known as just 'Hi-Bye' friends. Come week-ends and the much awaited 'Fun-Friday' with mind-twists like: scrambles, caption content, crazy captions, crossword puzzle, picture puzzle, guess the celebrity, jumble words, and many more to relax. Just that we guys find it challenging to balance with the week-end project deadlines against the tempting prize gifts of the contest.

At times there are other events that make us 'feel-at-home'. Ethic day, birthday celebrations, festival celebrations and so on. Now, looking forward towards Impelsys' first ever Halloween Party. Employee satisfaction survey is conducted so that voices of the employees are heard. The candid input are considered for fixing problems that generally demotivate people.

The best part of my office is that there is no hierarchical seating. This means that the new floor where we recently moved has the management and the rest of the employees sit together in an open layout without any cabins separating the staff from the Boss. There is not even the cubicle separation that would normally be built around an employee. There are just big-long tables with teams seated facing each other across. There is no such thing as formal environment in our office and we are always having some fun event or the other. This is the reason why we see ourself full of life, even when we have to work to exhaust ourself to meet the critical (at times un-realistic) deadlines. All these help to improve relationships and in-turn productivity.

Overall, a great place to work at!