My mom

My mom, Maneesha Jain, is the best. I bet you're thinking, "Oh, how sweet. Every kid thinks that about their mom," but I can back my case. My mom is the "Holder of Crazy Wisdom" and sees all and knows all. Once I wanted to play a game because I was bored. She immediately stopped what she was doing and played a few rounds of sweep with me. Another time, I accidentally put manual dishwashing soap in the dishwasher. There were so many bubbles that it filled the entire kitchen floor. When I went upstairs and cried, my mom came up and comforted me. Still don't believe me? How about this episode: I was driving back home from swim practice and was playing a game with my sister. I inadvertently threw my shirt, (I was still in my swim clothes, so I didn't have it on), out the window. It flew out behind us onto the road. When I told my mom a few seconds later, she told me it was OK and then made a U-turn. When we were parallel to the shirt, which fortunately had had no cars run over it, my mom got out of the car, walked deliberately to the shirt, picked it up, and came back. Then she got in the car and we drove home. :) Like I said, my mom is definitely the greatest, most magnificent, spectacular, superb, terrific, very good, outstanding, #1 MOM.

By the way mom, Happy Birthday

[{(Mom's and my concept of respect)}]

How do you respect your elders? When you do, do you receive blessings? Our theory is that doing pairi pouna is the form of respect that the elders most give back blessings. Also, everyone knows that sound does not travel in space but bounces of the atmosphere. It is also scientifically proven that energy never dissapears. It can change and alter its form, but it never dies. Therefore, when people give you blesssings, the blessings will keep richocheting around the atmosphere and keep hitting you. If you work long enough, you can have an eternal shield of love, kindness, and blessings that will come back again and again.

Piano Teachers

Piano teachers are definitely the strangest teachers around. I mean, what other teacher do you know who makes you break your fingers by hitting little wood blocks to make sound. Piano teachers are really posessive. They want credit when you play or suceed. Also, they won't teach you if they know you are going to ditch them. And if you do manage to evade their questions and try to ditch you, they will try to convince you for an hour that it's a stupid decision. Piano teachers just don't understand the concept of change.