Allwyn's Blog- The Journey

I have been thinking " W hat would a best day at work be like?? " for quite a long time. Trying to answer my inner quest, it happened to look through my window pane rewinding my memories. There were days which were challenging, stressful, very painful, Easy stress-free days, sleep and food starved days and there were days when 24hrs is not enough. Every day at work will be unique and will continue to be unique. Everyday at work will add experience and will make us well seasoned. I am going to list down 5 things which makes a  "Best day at work"  from my point of view. When I don't carry work back home: How you end your day at work is very important to have a  best day at office. During early days of my career one of senior colleague advised me to " leave work  behind in office when you call it a day" don't take work to home, as work is a continuous process which never ends. Such a precious advise which I preserve it for my life time. Work...

Creative writing, un-leash the imagination and writing skills of children. My daughter was asked to imagine and create her own fairy land as a part of creative writing activity in her school. Activity also includes creating a sketch of the fairy land. When we think of fairy lands, its usual to visualize ourselves as fairies, doing impossible things with magic spells, standing on top of castles reaching the clouds, riding flying horses, being spell bound looking at the talking mushrooms in the fairly land forest and bringing riches with the magic wand. I am very happy that she visualized a fairy land which has healthy food all around instead of riches. I fully appreciate the out of the box thinking and decided to use the concept for the blog. I believe this could be instrumental in creating awareness for healthy eating among children. I asked her to type the content, which she wrote in her notebook,...

Every year April 22nd is celebrated as Earth day . It is an annual event which was first announced in the year 1970. Around 193 countries across the world have declared April 22nd as Earth day. On this day awareness programs were conducted by various institutions to create awareness in protecting our environment. Schools educate the children by conducting drawing, elocution, and essay competition, encouraging the children to be responsible citizens and protect the environment. In one such effort, drawing competition was held in my son's school with the concept "Go Green" This picture was drawn by  Allan Jereme  for the drawing competition(Practice drawing at home) This picture convey loads of message about the protection of environment. Picture conveys the whole story with great ease. Right half of the picture depicts the adverse effects of using fossil fuels and polluting heavy industries which leads to scorching sun, tree...

"Living in peace with nature" translates to adapting ourselves and living in harmony with environment and nature. Urbanization has always tried to over power the environment and  has destroyed nature by creating its own system. Nature takes corrective action in the form of natural disaster now and then. But the concrete building, asphalt roads withstand worst and worst of the natural disasters. Its never late to try and make peace with nature and build our future cities environment friendly. Read also: Years of living Dangerously In my view, irrespective of region and nation we need to make peace with these three components of nature which are necessary to the very survival of human race. Birds and Bee's: Bees, as all of us know plays main role in pollination and pollination leads to trees bearing fruits. Bees are fast disappearing and in the near future human being shall take the role of bees and hop from tree to tree and flower to flowe...

  In 1980's parents encouraged children to go out and play outdoor games. In early 1990's we started living in multistoried building. Multistoried buildings occupied the open areas which once served as playgrounds. Parents also encouraged children to keep indoors and play indoor games. 2000's saw rapid change of technology which soon replaced indoor games with video games and computer games. Despite all technological development and change of mindset some of the Indoor board games have survived and are popular till date  as these games are pretty interesting, provides a gush of adrenaline and could shape the thought process of the players. Board games gives plenty of family time too. Though there are numerous games I would like to list top five board games in chronological order that every home must have. Carrom Board:   Carrom board provides excitement equivalent to any outdoor game. Carrom is played w...

Schools are closed for Academic year break for the year 2016-2017 We have been exploring new places of interest in and around Jeddah (Read previous post “ Visit to Dhaban Marine Park ”). One such place is the man made forest (Grove) in Jeddah which is known as Eastern forest. It is not a natural forest, the trees are planted and maintained in vast area (Quite vast). Location: Eastern forest is 21KM from Jeddah and it will take around 30min to reach there. It’s off the highway from Jeddah to Jumum. Take Bariman exit towards Jumum and drive for around 14km, then take the small side road (drive slowly as there are no clear sign boards) and proceed down the road for 4km to reach the Eastern Forest. If you are using Google maps search for “Forest East” which guides you to the exact location. Entrance fees: Entry to the forest is free of cost and entry is allowed only for families. As I understand, the park is open for public only on Thursday and ...

Life is short and precious to be wasted and spent worrying. we all deserve to have a happy and fulfilled life but in most of cases life has its own plans than what we intend to have.. In this materialistic world we live a stressful life running behind wealth, power and pride. One who is healthy doesn't have enough money to be cheerful and the one who is wealthy is not healthy enough to enjoy his life. Having said all these... you might be thinking How to have happy, fulfilled and cheerful life. Read through the post.... Listen to yourself: It is very important to appreciate yourself and listen to your body, mind and soul. Listen to your Inner calls, neglecting those could end up in a stressful life and force you to drift away from happiness and fulfillment. Your body may need rest after a long week or it may need better nourishment. Mind may need calmness and soul may need soothing. Listen to you inner calls and fulfill them. Keep It  simple: When your solvi...