Sipra's Diary::............Modern Marvel= "FITBIT"

 

FIT   BIT:  :Modern Marvel!

                    'Fit  Bit' is the latest obsession of the present-day generation.It is an electronic fitness product;a wireless enabled wearable technology device.It presents fitness data of your total body.It can be worn as wrist-band or around  the ankle of feet.

My daughter with her group of  friends bought it with great enthusiasm .It is designed to help you more active, eat a more well rounded diet, sleep better and turn you into a healthier human being-,shows time and daily activity...including heartbeat, blood-presser, mileage, steps taken, distance travelled, food calories, calories burnt, stairs climbed-,all the active minutes and the  even 'quality of sleep'!  i.e- The app represents the sound sleep with deep blue color like calm ocean; the broken sleep with  exact number of stripes and span of time  as sleep is broken ,and disturbed sleep with nightmare dream is marked  as red and multi colored stripes.
                 It seemed to me amazing!
As soon as she wakes up in the morning she begins to take account the statistic of her body  from the app. Then she begins to ask   in her mobile about the statistics of her other friends .  The FIT  BIT community is  bulging very fast.
While most parents have declared 'innings defeat' about guiding their  adult children's health issue (because the children think their  ideas  are backdated ),  this tiny device came forward  to guide and control so efficiently on behalf of them.
This Fit-Bit community has very much  competitive  spirit.To quote their daily conversation---------------
        -"How many steps  have you  today?"
-        -"It has not been 10,000 steps yet"
        _"I accomplished 13,000 steps today"
        -"Wow!"
         -"My fit-bit has not been charged  and so I felt so reluctant to do any exercise ,walk or take healthy food."
           "Yea, same feelings happened to me; if the device doesn,t work, I spend the day wallowing on irregularities.
Now different companies are launching this popular app.Their demand is sky-rocketing.'Apple' always move fast with  added sophistication  and expensive price.

I think it us a nice useful gift ,specially for the young folk on their birthday or   after  graduation.

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Sipra's. Diary:[ Rep]. EMBARRASING MOMENT...........Aug,/2025

 

   Embarrassing moment :     Sipra Roy.

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It was an old  abandoned 

 double storied  house,

Where I went as a participant 

in classical music  contest 

I was   number  six 

out of nine candidates 

All of us waited  

sitting on the carpet spread on the ground.

One by one was called by name

 to present their talent 

To the enlightened examiners

 to an adjacent closed compartment.

I was memorizing the tough 'tunes

 'with closed eyes and palpitation.

As  next one  was my turn

 to  appear before them; 

Suddenly noisy commotion

 of thumping and running feet 

Through stairs; 

Sound of conch from neighborhood 

Along with screaming voice -

 "Earthquack!"chilled my bone; 

 I saw me sitting alone  

while  others  were rushing down.

My cramped leg, numbed feet due to prolonged 

Sedentary position 

made me lifeless statue  !

An excited volunteer screamed at  me,

"move and run"!

My  choked voice made me dumb in fear 

As a chunk dropped  from the roof-top

 spreading cement powder!

I threw only a helpless vacant look                                                                                                   around the empty room!

The volunteer picked me 

in  sedentary  pose to his lap

 And came down swiftly                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        in the open courtyard among others.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Finding myself like a baby 

on the stranger's lap embracing his neck, 

 And Some  anxious leaning faces encircling me who commented:

                        'Is she fainted?"   

Shaking dirt I stood up  from the  lap, feeling  quite  embarrassed!

By the time earthquake stopped., luckily nobody  fatally injured.!

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Sipra's. Diary : [ Rep] POEM. "Heroes of Covid-19.

 The Heroes of 2020                                  

Hey, son of devil, Covid-19!

You surpass all the previous viruses 

In your demonic power and perilous nature,

Like an elusive enemy you enter 
 In disguise of simple cough and fever

The innocent body and then capture;

Raising your hood and fang to spread

Your invisible venom to far and near

To play merciless Dance on Death, for your pleasure!
You marked the era with dreadful vice---
Death of fortune, death of dream, death of lives!

Doctors, nurses, researchers, are relentlessly engaged

To fight and drive the mass- fear and demolish your power;

To our dismay, only the chilling news of deaths in numbers

 Still now you are reigning as pandemic, a deadly killer!

Delivery boys of grocery, medicine, trash pick-up 
Telephone crews T.V station , cop and  fire-fighters 
Post-Office, power-plants and the emergency service

Who work day and night to run smooth the city’s life

History opens up how the miracle of human love 

Spills over globally in time of cataclysm or crisis. 

With courage and risk, during the period of pandemic

Blowing up fear these Good  Samaritans   are 

The heroes of the decade 2020!

We offer our homage, and pray for their spirit “long live”!

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Sipra's Diary: 8/15/2025. Stay Safe, Stay Far !

Stay safe, Staying Far from the crowd.

There was a spectacular 'Coronation ' celebration of the young prince of Han dynasty in CHINA after the sudden death of the mighty  emperor.

 The young prince felt  proud  to be the emperor. After  having coronation he felt his subjects, soldiers  of  defense  were most benign and obliging to his sublimity.

One day he said boastfully to his minister, 

" I think all subjects of the empire are respectful as well as afraid of me [as they had been to my father],  isn’t it  minister ?" 

Minister replied ,"that should be ! 

-But you can take test to become  sanguined of  yourself , me lord ."

-" That's a good idea.!"

The prince- emperor asked the minister to announce a mammoth gathering of  all people of his land for emergency to be present at 2:pm, on next day.

Next day the people gathered in the court  with  full of apprehension.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

The Minister announced that the Prince emperor wanted to take a test of your "loyalty" to the new emperor  and the land. 

"Now listen carefully:--

1).Those who obey  the emperor most as 'supreme power' ,they must run towards the Riverside as soon as the bell-ring :

2)...The others who are obliged other than the emperor ,        [if there is any ] must  go towards the mountain!

   Remember , it is not a fun as sports but  an Obligatory drudgery.

Now be ready and stand up in the white- marked line.”

With the sound of bell the mass started running like school kids and crowded on the river side.  

The young emperor with bright smiling face began to pamper his own silky beard !

The  riverside crowd cheered  after coming back with slogan 'long live our new king ';'we love and obey to our  king, etc !' 

Each of them were given  half gold-coin and a metal dragon-badge  as reward.

Minister reported the emperor :  ' I see a single man still standing near the mountain side  alone ! ’

The minister handed  over his binocular  to the emperor  for verifying.

The emperor looked through with frowned eyebrows.

The court was calm & quite as the huge crowd left, praising the glory of the emperor. 

The lonely man on the mountainside was summoned by the emperor .

He looked  like a short structured skinny man. He began to tremble before the throne of emperor . 

The emperor asked him outraging 

              "....Why did you go towards mountain?

                       Aren't you afraid of me?

The man fell down to the feet of emperor and replied firmly: 

" Me Lord , before coming to palace,  my wife warned me, 

 “listen! never follow the crowd ; deserted place is always safe  to stay ;”

……"As the   river-side was crowded,  so  following  my wife's order,  I went to the opposite  side [mountain side].”

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Sira's Diary : [Rep] Kitchen & Curiosity> "Churning of The Ocean"

 

CHURNING OF THE OCEAN:        Sipra. Roy.         

Many scientific thesis/ idea popped up in the kitchen and proliferated later as   great mind-blowing discovery. Such as:  the boiling water making the lid move on the kettle made James Watt curious in his early boyhood . It gave him the idea of Power that Steam can produce, which inspired him later to discover ‘steam- engine’.

   A falling apple from the tree led a kid to discover the   law of gravitation; while. most  kids feel to rush and grab it quickly.

Many discoveries pop up from simple incidents due to curiosity of:   "how" and "why"! 

Necessity and curiosity are the keys or  ‘mother of all inventions’.

 While I cut vegetables or work  with the mixer  or fruit juicer ,many interesting ideas  related to this cosmos  evolve in my mind. In my busy days most ideas came and faded away as there was no time to ruminate or culture . Now often they peep at and beckon me from their  coffin boxes at tomb.

When I work on blender with milk for coffee   it reminds me the churning of the ocean as cream of the milk  floats as  some thick layer over the milk,  while the blades  spin with milk in the container of blender. 

Similarly, due to the churning of the ocean the best material of the earth came up upper  layer  which is described in Hindu religion as "Amrita", which means ambrosia. 

It is only the Hindu scripture which mentions and explains elaborately  about the churning of the  ocean  in details.  It represents the latest scientific theory of DNA in the   most attractive and interesting coverage  of mythological stories thousands and thousands years ago! I often feel about the cosmologist to dive deep into Hindu Cosmological theory   thoroughly  first before   wasting  huge money globally, for scientific research in lab! 

 It is really amazing   to think  how the Hindu scriptures  treasure the  symbiosis of   cosmic vibrations and cosmology so vividly : nothing is lost  since the universe is born ;  only needs exploration with new lens of mind, new version of consciousness!

Kitchen is a great laboratory to learn and practice. I purchased some Onions. They look very good and fresh from the outside. When I cut the big one   in two pieces then I noticed that some of the middle  portion of the onion was discolored and  rotten .So I peeled the onion layer by layer to discard  the rotten portion from  the middle .

To my surprise I noticed that every layer of the onion was clothed with a superfine thin silky  layer (like jacket ) which separate each layer from the other. Nature gave them the power of 'social distance" from the infected one. So I cut the rotten portion of any fruit or vegetable (  like local surgery! ) to save the rest  for consuming.

When I cut vegetables or fruits, I am amazed to notice how do the crafty nature arranged the seeds  inside  the fruit both with 

 sagacity and art ! 

I took the photo of the onion I mentioned above, and   an apple cut -in two halves with seeds embedded  within it   like  flowery pattern in a Jewelry box.  I wish to attach the photos with this article, ( if I can! ) 

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Sipra's Diary:[ Old File.] Why , why can't I ?..........

 

     MONOLOGUE

                            
"If happy little bluebird can fly,

O, why, why can't I ?"...........

   I was listening to the music; ... true,  why am I lagging behind the time?
 
Why can't I overcome my shortcoming? Why, why do I fail to keep in pace and rhythm !  If I can't then 

 I  will lag behind the time.   I am suffering for my. incompetence of tech-knowledge. I went library and some senior centre to fulfil the purpose but in. vain. most seniors are interested in  learning only social

 media; Facebook  WhatsApp, photo, music, games ,   movie etc and not more than that; The instructor 

also was in service for the majority. Nobody

had an interest in learning MS words or other things. I wanted to learn thoroughly like a student in

school/college.

I wish some philanthropist to come and teach people like us who are  still eager to learn, to walk

with  the rhythm of time.

In this technology-driven world, people have  to grasp  over technology well .

I love writing.; and I wanted to protect my stuff.  But very often they become vanished.  So  being

frustrated I tried to go back to the traditional land of pen and paper. But the computer  fascinated

me so much in a short period that I lost the old track. In this conflict between computer and pen

and paper, I am confused to decide where should I land my pad-craft to sprinkle  ink and  convert my

thought into script /print?  Under the pressure of this dilemma, my writing spirit began to dwindle.

My brother suggested  me to take a job in the library,  post-Office or  in StarBucks,  since every institution

is digital, It may be helpful for me.

I can try in the library in my neighbourhood. I have to be a volunteer as a computer teacher  for the

Beginner class for a certain period.   Hope I' am able enough to take the "beginners ' class with my

 limited digital knowledge.

 But, Instead of that, why not to try in a publishing house?

             Pioneering ventures into little known waters?

                                                                              "Wading in water,/Wading in water".......

Sipra's Diary: "Panic-in-JFKAirport. [* Story of sil-nora>Indian device to grind spice! ]

 Bombing panic of 9/11th,2001 

Mrs.and Mr Kundu  seemed to gain lottery ticket when their  long-time friend Mr Saha   brought  marriage proposal of his own nephew  Joydeep who came from US for two months! 

There was nothing special of their daughter Kajol. She was only19 studying BA in City College, average looking, middle complexion. Mr. Kundu and Mr Saha both were UDC clerks in writers's building. 

Joydeep was a software Engineer working in Infosys of Dallas. After marriage  Joydeep went back Dallas with kajole.

 More exciting event than the marriage was  that Mrs.Kundu  would go to Dallas for 6 months as Kajole was pregnant. Her packing was ready :One big suitcase for checking and a carry-on cabin suitcase.   Just one week was  was still left .

It was Nov, 2001.Just two months ago historical  disaster of 9/11 ransacked the psychological stability as well as financial backbone of America... Suspicion and insecurity swept over the cool and calm mind of the whole land. Every day Kajole  cautioned her mom what she shouldn't  not take.

But last time she informed that very good  Hilsa of  Padma from Bangladesh  was available in Dallas. Though the Hilsha was good but "vapa-sorse-hilsa'  preparation was not enough tasty. Her Bangladeshi friend said that  because  spice [dijon] prepared  in electrical mixie  caused little bitter taste!

So mrs. Kundu haunted a portable  tiny -'Sil-nora' from Borobazar to Kidirpore, Bagbazar to Sealdah!  Finally She managed to pack the   flat 'Sil'of stone  in "Check- in box " but  she had no other way to pack its partner 'Nora' [ in a tight velvet bag like ornament ], in her vanity bag made of durable crocodile skin, purchased from New Market. She was sure to cook "delicious-dish of vapa illish" for her pregnant daughter !

With full of nervousness and excitement she landed Dallas Airport which was full of chaos and crowd in 'customs and Immigration.' Each passenger was questioned and checked thoroughly which took long time.

 When Mrs Kundu's turn came, She was enquired about the fancy and gorgeous velvet  clothed stony 'Nora'!  Mrs Kundu was unable to explain in her poor english to the American officer or his assistant ! She was requested to wait, attended by a security officer. Mrs Kundu felt her throat dry in worry; She took oath in silence to learn spoken english thoroughly before coming to America next time. 

Her thought was interrupted as two strong persons with defense uniform came to mrs.Kundu.  with the instruction of the Security officer! They ordered,

"Give Your Vanity bag ." Mrs Kundu obeyed silently.

They asked again,"Do you have any arms, weapon or bomb inside ?

 "Nno, no,  never !"

 One of the officer opened the bag cautiously and threw overturned  on the ground ;   everything  were scattered including the ''Nora" of solid  stone  dropped  on the marble ground making horrible  sound !

All on a sudden the noise came to pin-dropped silence followed simultaneously from few panicky voice,

"Bomb , it is Bomb!"

Run away, runaway.................

In a twinkle of an eye the place was deserted except the officer and fainted body of Mrs kundu.

"Nora" was collected and sent  for scrutiny  to "bomb"alert  department .Two   sniffing police-dogs convinced of safety;  mrs.Kundu on stretcher was sent for First Aid.

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Kajol switched onT.V little worriedly to watch evening news at 6:oopm!  Mother's  flight landed on 12.45pm.  They arranged airport shuttle to pick up mother as they stayed far from the  airport . Her mother is pretty intelligent to travel alone inside India.   She had confidence on her.

The opening evening news was,"Bomb in the airport of Dallas !

Kajol started crying ; She immediately informed Joydeep in the office to go and fetch her mom safely.

Joydeep was in some meeting; he requested his boss to preside over the meeting, as he was in troubled situation!  

He saw outside the meeting hall  some  office staffs are laughing   and discussing humorously  about the false news of bombing . All the news channels declared with apology what actually happened! 

He again got a call from Kajol. 

Kajol assured  that her mother had reached home safe  trailing with her  a historical story which will be shared later at dinner time!

Joydeep placed the phone-receiver  and gave a sigh of relief  with  smile! 

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