It has to be America. 
Tuesday night, 19th May, 2009, Akshitha lacerated her eyelid. Though her laceration cleaved me then, I now realize that, the Avatar must have worked out a major tragedy through a minor nick.
Just A millimetre
My baby injured herself last night,
She lacerated her right eye-lid;
Just a millimetre above her eye-lash,
A millimetre from destiny’s bid.
As the blood trickled down her cheek
And shrieks ran around the place;
I stood and stared, then rushed unfazed,
She had been saved by Divine Grace.
While the hospital doctors checked and tested,
And wondered at this incredible miss;
I realized her fate had no doubt been averted,
And the unseen hand was undoubtedly His.
As she sleeps soundly by me now,
Pristine, unattached and unaffected;
I look to Him in awe and wonder,
At the play that had just been enacted.
For, her design is in His very hands,
And though we are thankless to mention;
He steers her over life’s catastrophes,
With every timely nick and laceration.
For, I was there yesterday
And yet it mattered next to nothing;
She has her future to sojourn,
Where my prayer will remain but a farthing.
For, in spite of what we accomplish,
And how we gloriously enact our every whim;
We have to sustain the realization,
That we owe it all to Him.
Millimeters from appalling tragedy,
Seconds from eternal pain;
He guides and guards us throughout,
How do we repay our gain?
We live our lives in astonishing delusion,
Controlling little beyond ignorant actions;
While the unseen Hand sways throughout,
And makes all the decisions.
Visited my alma mater, Indian High School yesterday, where I first set foot in 30 years back. Remembered the good old times, and mused on how difficult they make it current students to bunk classes. Earlier, we could just hop across wall to the Sindhi Club (formerly Indian Sports Club). Now, there is a whole building in between. Students need to be more creative now.
On a more serious note, it feel strange to see all these innocent and curious children being steadily worked on to have their pure open minds replaced with indoctrinated narrow ones, filled with a lot of information and very little learning. In retrospect, Moral Science classes used to be a formality (maybe they still do). Such is modern day education. Thank God there is Bal Vikas.
On another note, there was a declamation contest going on with students speaking in the national language wearing western costumes. Wearing western clothing will make us as westernised as speaking in Hindi will make us Indians.
Had a philosophical discussion with Ram 'The Scorpio' Victo at 5 mins. past midnight last night,- obviously we don't have a life.
I mentioned to him in passing about one of my personal heroes in our network being Radha, who in many ways, is all that I am not. And the scoop of the night was his very interesting statement that good leaders can never become effective leaders. And he mentioned someone very respected as an example.
On deeper thought, it could extend to the herculean difficulty in balancing principles with popularity, and rare has been the one to have achieved this balance. Principles may be popular, as long as they are explained, not so when they are enacted (and especially by others).
Kindly observe our resident dude Arjun being himself during the refereeing for this event,- his cell phone kept romancing him during the cricket matches as well.
Wonder what it means,- they kept chanting it like some kind of mantram throughout the Throwball match.
We had our SAI Annual Sports Day on Friday, 3rd April, 2009, - conducted by the SAI Youth Mission, Dubai.
This has been a redemption in many ways, following the wake-up disaster call of last Christmas. This mega event has proved a number of things in a number of quarters. The important thing is that we have now raised the bar for ourselves in what we can accomplish. The tough thing is to maintain that impression. Securing a good reputation seems far easier than retaining it.
Some pictures follow.
Was debating the current conversion crusade and the instinctive reaction of the same with a friend.
Does going to church regularly make one a Christian? Probably makes him only a regular church-goer though.
Ex-Chief Minister Karunakaran visits Guruvayoor every month, which makes him a regular Guruvayoor visitor. It was Spinoza, I think, who mentioned that the last Christian died on the cross.
Trip to the beach on 6th March. 
Continuing from my previous post on health, it's interesting to note what mankind is preferring to invest in, these days.
