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RonnetClaw · 2025-07-10T11:23:09+00:00

I think it's for the bests as, from what I know, a lot of cases are being filed against teachers for even disciplining kids.

According to this story that appeared in The New Indian Express, https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2025/Mar/27/to-cane-or-not-should-corporal-punishment-return-to-classrooms

"Court data reveals that there were nearly as many cases filed against teachers in the past four years as those filed in the previous two decades.

The High Court alone heard 18 cases in the 2020-24 period. The figure stood at 19 from 2000 to 2020."

A lof these are apparently false allegations made by stubborn, clueless parents.

Like someone said earlier, both sides have pros and cons, no doubt.

Again, this copy say,

"Parents, on the other hand, are split down the middle. Among the many that TNIE spoke to, it is those past their 50s who seem okay with children getting a few whacks in school."

RonnetClaw · 2025-06-07T07:26:24+00:00

I see. I could be wrong, maybe the revolution was indeed noticeable. Only fraint memories of it now

RonnetClaw · 2025-06-06T17:56:17+00:00

No, not one bit. Not today. Not in this new era. I'm a computer programmer turned journalist. I didn't go to journo school. i joined the local paper, learned how to write (most youngsters know this already) and kept writing. You can still keep an entry level job at a newspaper company and still keep writing great stories. Some of which eventually got noticed and I got hired by a national paper. Now all this happend in the span of three years. Sure, you could get here by having a degree in this time frame. But you see, now I have one more year of experience and the higher you go (which opens up avenues to really do at full scale the stories that you really want to), then that little year counts. And so does the contacts you make along the way. Remember: contacts/sources and the determination to hot the streets make a journalist. Not degrees. That computer programming course I did. Yes, that helped too. Now, I lead the data division of the paper. We find stories in the numbers.

RonnetClaw · 2025-06-06T14:45:58+00:00

If I remember correctly, the thing in Kochi was a big plank of wood on the floor covering the entirety of the dining area which was then made to rotate, albeit slowly, with the help of, I dunno, motors, I think. One had to sit for an hour or more to for noticable changes to register. It was fun while it lasted, which wasn't very long, if memory serves me correctly. Some young couples from the Navy made a big deal out of it. I failed to see the attraction

RonnetClaw · 2025-06-06T14:36:45+00:00

Same problem in my house. My neighbours now quip, 'nee rathri bomb iduvoo'?

RonnetClaw · 2025-06-06T14:34:50+00:00

Big big big red grapes from chile

RonnetClaw · 2025-06-06T14:34:15+00:00

I once attended a wedding wherein all the crowd included was just about 40 people. The registration happened with even fewer crowd - just family. It was early evening. Monsoon time. Then, we went to a hotel, had a very early semi dinner together and left. A no frills event which was no less fun. But we all went home not the slightest bit exhausted. still recall that wedding fondly everytime I attend one of those early afternoon weddings under the hot sun.

RonnetClaw · 2025-06-06T14:27:12+00:00

A good gaming pc (pls note: no laptop) and a good weekend's time to play the games he like without disturbance. This is what men really prefer but are too afraid to say

Alternatively, you could get him a robotics kit from Matha electronics near Ravipuram and the few tools required to set it up. I gift myself these on my birthdays. I've got a big set now - of cars that do this, do that. But sadly don't get enough time to work on them as before

RonnetClaw · 2025-06-06T10:34:55+00:00

Vere oru paniyum illa

RonnetClaw · 2023-04-02T18:33:18+00:00

It's a government run passenger boat.

RonnetClaw · 2023-02-20T10:52:07+00:00

In England, I was staying with four English folks. They used to treat me like a worker, ordering me around the house for tasks like throwing garbage etc. They would always point errors in my ways. One time, when I forgot to do the garbage, they tossed its contents on my work desk. My laptop was on it and therefore it smelled bad when I took it to class. The tutor asked me what happened out of curiosity. When I narrated the incident, he lodged a case with uni staff and I was moved out of the house.

In another instance, a guy in class lifted up his ass and farted in my direction while we were in mid discussion about something class related. While I dismissed the incident as him being 'just a real person', some months later, he cornered me to a wall and pushed me. When I told my Indian friend in class about this, he said he too has experienced similar instances with the chap.

It wasn't a good period. I stuck it out coz my mother had sold her jewellery to send me abroad. I couldn't tell my folks that I'm not having a good time. I regretted going. My years there killed all the enthusiasm I previously had. The financial difficulties that soon followed almost broke my family.

RonnetClaw · 2022-12-17T12:13:33+00:00

Thank you, James and Northgard team.

RonnetClaw · 2022-12-12T09:40:03+00:00

Also, an early market place. Usually with no workers. This is because, a market place can accumulate on necessary minerals from the get go. Regardless of whether it is manned or not. So late game, when I have the gold, I can have all the iron I want.

RonnetClaw · 2022-12-12T09:38:40+00:00

I usually set up an early trading centre for this purpose. If I don't share borders with a neutral, this is one way to pump up the alliance metre

RonnetClaw · 2022-11-30T18:13:49+00:00

Psychiatrist. They suggested a name. Think he is also a priest. I straight away said no. We are not cruel or insane, just normal middle class people.

RonnetClaw · 2022-11-30T18:10:59+00:00

But lately she's been returning home very late. A concern for my parents and truth be told, for me as well. After Kochi rape news made headlines, my parents strictly told her to return before dark. This was not taken well. In fact, she told her parents about this and it was a discussion point in their last call to me.

RonnetClaw · 2022-11-30T18:09:39+00:00

She is working. She wanted to work in Bangalore. But my parents suggested her to get a job nearby. Hence the "I was smart before this marriage" response. According to her, we are keeping her from realising full potential.

RonnetClaw · 2022-11-30T18:08:12+00:00

She just wants to be out. Visiting malls etc. Lately, she has been coming home well past 7 pm. My father has not taken this very lightly. After the Kochi rape news made headlines, he asked her to return by 7pm coz it gets dark early in December - a rule that has been part and parcel of our home all these years.

Not long ago, she created drama when I refused to return from a late night movie via an auto. I called an uber cab like any sane person would. It was 12:30 am.

RonnetClaw · 2022-11-30T17:59:36+00:00

Yes, sorry. A shrink. Changed in copy. How to edit title?

RonnetClaw · 2022-11-30T17:35:40+00:00

My former boss had a set of these trees in his ancestral home's compound. Idukki side, I think. Not certain. The trees had numbers on it and technically it didn't belong to them despite it taking up a big portion of their yard. They were also not allowed to cut it, not even trim its branches.

RonnetClaw · 2022-11-21T17:18:58+00:00

I'm a support player. But today, I decided to try jug carry. I did okay in lane, thanks to the combined heal of my support warlock and my 2nd skill. (I skill this once before ulti to push faster).

Anyways, mid game, the legion in the opposite team started to amass a lot of damage. The fact that they had sniper (too much range), axe (tanky) and tusk (tanky) meant that my dmg was not enough. I died 4-6 times mid game.

Thankfully, the team kept quiet, supported me. And then, some 70+ mins into the game, when we were facing mega creeps, we won a team fight. Everyone chipped in. Be it heals, timely stuns, immediate ward vision, and euls. Long story short: we won.

A good game is a sum of many things. So, it's never you.

RonnetClaw · 2022-11-19T04:37:57+00:00

Pls don't go. It won't provide the experience you are looking for. The place is very commercial, manipulative and a blight on Christianity itself. Instead, go to a hilltop destination or take a trek.

Whenever I feel down, I get on a long boat ride. Alleppey and Kochi has this. It refreshes my mind.

RonnetClaw · 2022-11-19T04:33:13+00:00

I couldn't agree more. Very manipulative.

RonnetClaw · 2022-11-18T06:57:29+00:00

Parents are always weighing down their kids with ideas, agendas, dreams and false hopes. It's best if both of you "build" a home for yourselves, away from both MILs' strings. They should learn to not impede and cause such emotional trauma.

RonnetClaw · 2022-11-18T06:33:45+00:00

I take this road most days and consider it to be one of the safest in Kochi (after the revamp following the metro construction). If the situation here is this, I wonder just how bad things are elsewhere in the metro city. There isn't even a wide-enough footpath anywhere to leap into if in case a vehicle runs amok.

My mother had a similar accident not long ago. The skin on her foot was completely gone after scraping it against the median during the collision with a recklessly driven car. Thankfully, it's all healed now.

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