Kena Jaye

Hope you like this latest blog of mine that features some products used by me and my family.

http://kenajaye.blogspot.co.uk/

I've titled it in Bengali as "Kena Jaye" which means "can be bought"

Hence, these products can also be bought by you if you like them as much as we do.

In the coming days, I'll be adding some more products, as and when I remember them or reuse them.

As all these goods have been bought from UK, hence you can google them out and see if these are also available in your country.

Either one of your local hypermarkets would be selling them, or you might get them on Amazon, eBay, Flipkart, etc.

Earlier this year we went to India where temperatures were peaking at 43 degrees and last month we went to Italy and Switzerland where it was summer and so we had to endure highs of over 30 degrees at some places. It was difficult going out in the blazing sun and so we chose to go out in the evenings and come back to our hotel late at night.

We stayed in Novotel Malpensa which was very near to the airport and the hotel provided shuttle service.

From the airport we could get direct coaches to Milan and Stresa in Italy and Lugano in Switzerland.

All the 3 places were an hour's drive from the airport. Though car hire would have been cheaper for a family of four but we decided not to hire a car but go for those buses which are very well-equipped, punctual and reliable and thus enjoyed the scenic beauty of the countryside and cities while being driven around....

We visited Lake Maggiore and Lake Lugano surrounded by beautiful green hills and valleys.

From Milano Malpensa Airport you can get Terravision buses to Milan Central Station.

From this airport you can also get Alibus shuttle to Stresa and Jet Bus to Lugano.

All these buses including the hotel shuttle service come to Terminal 1 and Terminal 2.
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Here are some serene pics of Lugano for you to see :-)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/aparnaonline/albums/72157688100625746

What I must mention is this wonderful product that always made me feel fresh both in India and in Italy despite the soaring temperatures.

Secret Deodorant Outlast Clear Gel Sport Fresh

http://kenajaye.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/secret-deodorant-outlast-clear-gel.html

It's such a superb deodorant that I've stopped using all the others that I used in the past.

It really does what it says. My most favourite deodorant till date and I'm now committed to it.

I bought this from Amazon. See if you can get it. No harm in trying and you'll thank me if you like it :-)

I've been using this for nearly a year as I first bought it late last year.
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Also, as winter is now approaching, let me mention that Vaseline works well for dry lips.

http://kenajaye.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Vaseline

Diprobase works well for dry hands

http://kenajaye.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Diprobase

and Sanex is really good to keep dryness at bay.

http://kenajaye.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Sanex

I don't suffer much from dryness as much as my hubby and children do as they go out more often than I do.
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Hope you like this new playlist I made on Saira Banu. Some lovely songs have been picturised on her.

She's one of my favourite actresses. She did her schooling in UK before going to Bombay for her film career.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAP2Wr4O1JaltnfmNop0ZpdoGl6lsJjw2

Her husband, the veteran actor Dilip Kumar has been ailing for a long time.

I wish them both courage, strength and resilience during these hard times.
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And now it's Quotes Time - Happy Quoting :-)

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge. - Marianne Williamson

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. - Nadia Boulanger

The six best doctors: sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise, and diet. - Wayne Fields

There is no greater wealth in this world than peace of mind. - Anon

When you say 'Yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'No' to yourself. - Paulo Coelho

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. - Bruce Lee

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. - Steve Jobs

Good bosses care about getting important things done. Exceptional bosses care about their people. - Jeff Haden

When life comes to a standstill, poetry keeps me going.... - Aparna Chatterjee

Like a sandcastle, all is temporary. Build it, tend it, enjoy it. And when the time comes, let it go. - Jack Kornfield

'It’s impossible,’ said pride. ‘It’s risky,’ said experience. ‘It’s pointless,’ said reason. ‘Give it a try,’ whispered the heart. - Anon

We’ll light the candle together when she’s ready. For now I’ll trust the darkness for us both. - Terri St. Cloud



Till next time, goodbye and good luck :-)

Yours,
Aparna

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It will add to the database of good reads on your website and will give the 'new' look and feel as almost every week I sign in to share something new :-)

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It will show you all the News Feeds of my G+ Posts

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Cheerios,
APARNA

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Friendship has its illusions no less than love. - Stendhal

Haunting Quote sourced from Slideshare dot Com

He

He died
Last year

She died
This year

I wonder,
Whose
Turn
Would it be
Next year...
The following
Year, and
So on and
So forth....
Year after
Year....

Theme could be Death / Continuity / Cycle or Thirst (the never-ending thirst that death has for life)

Wrote this today after seeing the funeral of our neighbour.

Tired

Tired souls
Travelling
Around....
To get some
Repose....
In this world's
Merry-go-round

Theme could be Travel / Tourism / Vacation / Relaxation / Requiescence

People jet away to exotic places to calm their frayed nerves from hectic work lives.

Open

Open
Pyres
Smelling
Of death

Mother
Earth
Must be
Feasting
On death

(dedicated to the victims of Nepal's earthquake)

Meditating

Let the murders
Continue
And the tortures
Too

How does it
Matter to
Me and you?

Let us
Not focus
On the
Miseries
Of the
World

Let us
Just
Meditate
And
Enlighten
Our world

(Theme: Self-Centeredness)







Sampling

Would you
Like to
Enjoy
Some
Senryu?

How about
Sampling
The ones
By our
Seshu?

I like his
Sense of
Humour

Hope you
Would like
It too :-)

(dedicated to our Seshu Ji - not only his humorous ones, I also like his nostalgic ones and the ones that he writes showcasing life's idiosyncrasies ;-)






He

He's a man
Who minces
No words when
He writes....

No wonder,
His blog
Bites ;-)


This is about Dr. R.K. Singh's blog. I like his writing. It grasps and captivates you. In a few words, he says so much....with so much power and potency!!!

The only change I would suggest is whenever a reader clicks on a poem of his, it leads to his profile info and then the poem below; clicking the poem should directly lead to it rather than the reader scrolling down to read the poem. I wish him many more years of creative writing :-)


The above Poems are © Aparna Chatterjee 2015

Images © Getty Images dot Com (Courtesy: Boloji)

You can read more poems here

I Wear

You want
To know
How close
I feel ~
Towards
You...??

Every day
You wear
Your glasses

Every day
I wear you

Just the way
You can't do
Without your
Glasses,
I can't do
Without you

'Cause
Just the way
You need
Your glasses

I need you :-)






Sometimes

Sometimes
I feel like
Writing to
You, all
Day, all
Night :-)

As if
Writing
Comes to
Me naturally
All day, all
Night :-)





If

If you
See him
Smiling
For no
Reason

Don't assume
There's no
Reason

The reason
Could be
Love :-)





Mother - Daughter

Daughter is posing
Mother is clicking,
In this age of Selfie
It's all about 'Me' ;-)

(written after seeing my neighbours taking selfies)





Some People

Some people
Are way too
Busy to give you
Time

But when
They are
Free
They want
All your time

Doesn't matter
To them - that
If and when
You need them
They don't have time






That

That
Last
Line
Of his
Poem
Stayed
With me
For a long
Time...

As if
Somebody
Had brought
Back to me
A long-lost
Memory...
After a
Long time






She

She
May be
Feeling
Lonely
Out there

So she's
Sharing
Her blog
Everywhere

(Theme: Filler)

School

Beginning
School
And
Ending
School

The school
Remains the
Same

The influx
And outflux
Goes on

Just like
We do
On
Earth

(in this poem, the earth is perceived as a school which we join when we are born and leave when we die and so the steady flow of births and deaths represents the influx and outflux)






He's

He's died
Peacefully
In his sleep.
At least,
Now he'll
Not be
Plagued
By the
Aches
And
Pains
Of his
Diurnal
Ablutions
That didn't
Let him sleep

(dedicated to aged, disabled or chronically ill people for whom life is so much of a burden that even doing their everyday little chores seems to be so painful. Death releases them from their diurnal struggle)






Pack

Pack a
Punch
In your
Poems
So that
People
Who
Read you
Consider
You to be
The Mary
Kom of
Prolific
Poetry

(addressed to all women poets)


All the above Poems are © Aparna Chatterjee 2015

School image © Getty Images dot Com (Courtesy: Boloji)

You can read more poems here

The A to E of Poetry :-)

As the Title of this Blog goes, I'll be enlisting some major types of poetry arranged alphabetically from A to E.

Of course, time permitting, I'll continue with some more types of poetry starting from F right up to Z in my future blogs.

I didn't want to load you with too much of info in one single blog. Hence, I plan to do it in parts :-)

Till then, please go thru this Blog and I wish you happy reading and happy learning :-)

I'll begin with the letter A and will end with the letter E :-)

Hope you enjoy all that I've written for you to see :-)

An Abecederian Poem is also known as an Alphabet Poem. Its each line or verse begins with a successive/sequential letter of the alphabet.

Here's an example of an Abecederian Poem

http://www.poetrydances.com/abecedarian.php

An Acrostic is a poem where certain letters in each line spell out a word or a phrase. A single acrostic is formed by the initial letters of the lines, a double acrostic by the initial and final letters, and a triple acrostic by the initial, middle and final letters.

Here is a simple example of an Acrostic

http://www.kidzone.ws/poetry/acrostic.htm

Here is an example of a Double Acrostic

https://ramblingsfromamum.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/acrostic-double/

And here you can see a Triple Acrostic

http://poetry.wrr.ng/love-me-a-triple-acrostic/

Anaphora also known as Epanaphora is a poem in which words or phrases are repeated in the beginning of two or more successive lines or verses.

You can see this pattern in this poem by Anne Porter - A List of Praises

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/list-praises

A Ballad is a narrative poem of short stanzas usually set to music for singing.

Here is an example

https://www.youngwriters.co.uk/types-ballad

A Ballade is a poem of 3 stanzas of 7, 8 or 10 lines sharing the same rhyme pattern followed by an envoy/envoi, all ending with the same line.

Here is how you write a Ballade

https://www.youngwriters.co.uk/types-ballade

A Blank Verse Poem has no line limit (can be written in any number of lines), it has regular metrical but unrhymed lines. This form of poetry has been used in writing Epics and Dramatic Monologues. It usually has Iambic Pentameter of a rhythmic pattern of unstressed/stressed syllables but can also be written in Trochee form of stressed/unstressed syllables, Anapest form of unstressed/unstressed/stressed syllables and Dactyl form of stressed/unstressed/unstressed syllables. If all these forms are stressing you, you can go googling to read and learn more about the various types of Blank Verse poems just so that your concepts are clear :-)

Here is how Shakespeare used Blank Verses in his Plays

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/literature/what-is-blank-verse-and-how-does-shakespeare-use-it

http://www.poeticterminology.net/07-blank-verse.htm

Now, don't confuse a Blank Verse with a Free Verse which is another category of poetry. Though both these types of poetry have unrhymed lines, a Blank Verse is consistently metrical whereas a Free Verse is free from both rhyme and meter.

Blues Poem originates from the African American oral tradition and the musical tradition of the Blues. It is themed on life's struggles, despair, grief, pain, loss and sex.

Here are some examples

http://ta.thet.net:16080/~Chapin/WebPage/docs/BluesPoem.PDF

The Bop poetic form is written in 3 stanzas, each followed by a refrain (repeated part of a poem). The first stanza has 6 lines and presents a problem. The second stanza has 8 lines and explores or expands the problem. The third stanza is again of 6 lines, presenting a solution to the problem or documenting the failure to resolve the problem.

Here are 2 e.g.s of how you write a Bop Poem

http://youthvoices.net/discussion/divided-bop

https://caraholman.wordpress.com/tag/the-bop-poetry-form/

A Cento is a patchwork or collage poem consisting of lines, quotations, verses or passages taken from the works of other authors.

Here is an example of a Cento

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/poetic-form-cento

A Cinquain also known as a Quintain or Quintet is made of 5 unrhymed lines. Lines 1 and 5 have 2 syllables each, Line 2 has 4 syllables, Line 3 has 6 syllables and Line 4 has 8 syllables. In all, there are 22 syllables in this type of poem.

Here is where you can sample an example and also create your own Cinquain :-)

http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/cinquain.htm

A word cinquain is based on words instead of syllables. Lines 1 and 5 have 1 word each, Line 2 has two words, Line 3 - three words, and Line 4 - four words. Hence, a word cinquain will have a total of 11 words.

Example of a word cinquain is here

http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/amy/algebra/5-6/activities/poetry/cinquain.html

If you research the web, you'll find many other types of Cinquain - Butterfly, Reverse, Mirror, Crown, Garland, Didactic, Lanterne, Cinqku, Tanka, etc

Diamante Poem - well, as the name goes, a poem written in the shape of a diamond ◊ is known as a Diamante Poem :-) It consists of 7 unrhymed lines having a set structure of nouns, adjectives and verbs themed on either one topic or two contrasting topics like Winter/Summer, Day/Night, Happiness/Sadness, Life/Death, etc. The 1st and 7th line are the shortest having just 1 word each and the ones in the middle are longer, thus giving the poem its characteristic diamond shape. The word count is: 1,2,3,4,3,2,1. Lines 1, 4 and 7 have nouns. Lines 2 and 6 have adjectives. Lines 3 and 5 have verbs. Thus the pattern is: noun, adjectives, verbs, nouns, verbs, adjectives, noun. In a Synonym diamante, the 1st and last nouns mean the same whereas in an Antonym diamante, the 1st and last nouns mean the opposite.

Here you can create your own Diamante Poem

http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/diamondpoem.htm

http://www.eduplace.com/activity/pdf/diamante_poetry.pdf

Dramatic Monologue or a Persona Poem uses the technique of Theatrics in which the poem is narrated by a solo speaker impersonating a character. It's a monologue and so the performer seems to talk to the audience but is actually talking to some fictitious characters as if he's venting out his thoughts and feelings or responding to their comments and queries (which are inaudible) as there are no dialogues or auditory responses in this type of performance.

Here is an Example

http://www.monologuearchive.com/b/byron_005.html

An Echo Verse is a type of verse in which the final word/syllable of each line is 'echoed back' as a response i.e. repeated as an 'echo' in the line below. A good example would be the poem Heaven written by the Welsh-born English poet, orator and priest George Herbert (1593-1633)

Here it is for you to see :-)

https://www.forwardpoetry.co.uk/post/how-to-write-echo-verse.html

An Ekphrastic Poem offers a vivid description of an artistic creation which could be a scene or a visual piece of work through the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the "action" of a painting, photograph, picture, pottery or a sculpture by amplifying and expanding its meaning. The poet tries to convey the deeper, inner, hidden or latent meaning of the artwork esp. what it may symbolise for e.g. a photo of a barren land can convey desolation, loneliness, neglect, isolation or loss. We must bear in mind that it is entirely the poet's perception, reaction or interpretation of that artwork and so a piece of art can be seen very differently by two different persons and hence, the artwork can inspire two different poets to write two entirely different poems having no shared sense of perception.

Here are 2 Examples of Ekphrastic Poetry

http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/classicscene.html

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/painting

An Elegy is a mournful poem written to lament the death of a person or a group of people who've died due to natural causes or due to tragic circumstances for e.g. illness / epidemic / fire / riots / accidents / wars / acts of terrorism or any other natural disasters like Tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, landslides, volcanoes, etc. Traditionally, elegies have been written in 3 stages: the 1st stage of the poem expressing the poet's grief and sorrow over the death of the person/group, the 2nd stage expressing the poet's praise and admiration of the deceased person/group and the 3rd or the last stage of the poem offering some consolation and solace to deal with the tragic loss and bereavement.

Here is an Example of an Elegy

http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Poem&PoemID=12234&ThemeID=357

Emoticon Poetry - this new category has been introduced by me. If you want to check how to write such poetry, this is the Link you need to see

http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Blogs&sd=Blog&BlogID=1626

An Epic Poem is a long, narrative poem written on a grand scale to highlight some major events or heroic feats and adventures of historical culture pertaining to a country or nation. For e.g. our ancient Indian Ramayana or Mahabharata

Paradise Lost by John Milton is also a good example of an Epic Poem

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Milton/paradise_lost.htm

Here you can read more details about Epic Poetry

http://web.cn.edu/Kwheeler/documents/What_is_an_Epic.pdf

An Epigram is a short, witty poem expressing an idea, thought or observation in a clever and amusing way. It could be a couplet (having 2 lines), quatrain (having 4 lines) or a one-liner like Oscar Wilde's

"I can resist everything except temptation"

Here is a wonderful example of an Epigram :-)

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/what-epigram

Here is another one :-)

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/underwoods-epigram

An Epistle is a type of poem you would love writing if you love letter-writing :-) Epistle is essentially a poem in a letter form; it could be a single letter poem or a series of letters written in a poem. It could be full of rhyming and metrical stanzas or without a meter / rhyme, it could be several words and pages long or a very short or medium-sized poem, it could be having a personal/casual/intimate tone or an impersonal (formal) one, it could be written to a real or an imaginary person/group of people, it could be the views of the poet or the poet can take on the character of a different writer while writing the letter. Hence, an epistle offers a lot of choice in how you write the poem. Traditionally, epistles were written to express one's thoughts and views on love, religion, philosophy and morality. The New Testament of the Bible has many epistles.

Here is an Example of an Epistle

https://poewar.atlassian.net/wiki/display/POEWAR/Day+18+-+Write+a+poem+in+the+form+of+a+letter+-+epistle

You can also see this one

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/29974

Thus, ends my Blog here for today.

See you again another time, another day :-)

Cheers
Aparna

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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin

Somebody

Somebody has done an audio rendition of my poem Reflection

You can listen to it here :

http://www.poemhunter.com/i/poem_sounds/6/reflection-179.mp3

If the above Link doesn't work, you can scroll down this Page and try the audio box where it says "listen to this poem"

http://poemhunter.com/poem/reflection-179/

I've also added the Link to this Poetry Page.

http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Poem&PoemID=9436

I also wanted to mention in this Blog that some of my friends have reported a slight problem with my News Feeds of G+ Posts.

Hope you are also not experiencing the same. Here's how to resolve it.

When you click this Link of my G+ RSS

http://plusfeed.frosas.net/117466581567846877904

It will show you all the News Feeds of my G+ Posts

But if you happen to see some Grubby HTML ;-) Don't worry.

Just Refresh the Page (press F5) and all the news will be there in the right order.

Hope this helps :-)

Have a Happy Dussehra.

L and R,
Aparna

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Like a caramelised melting Toffee ??!!

Esp. when you go out in the hot and humid weather ??!!

Try this and see :-)

It will keep you dry and sweat-free.

We've put it to test for the past couple of months, using it on all our family and it does seem to do the trick.

So, what is the wonder product ?!

It is Right Guard High Performance Anti-Perspirant, protects you from sweating and smelling for about 72 hours i.e. 3 days, though I don't depend on it and take bath every day, that's how my routine has been all through these years. Nevertheless, using this Spray makes me feel dry on sweaty days esp. when I go out exercising.

This spray is also supposed to be Extremely Invisible with Unbeatable Stain Protection - anti-white, anti-yellow and anti-oily stains.

It is alcohol free and has a long-lasting sweet fragrance.

I've never liked strong perfumes and have always stuck to Johnson's Baby Powder after my daily shower, but when I tried this product; its mild scent really attracted me.

Its innovative formula has been dermatologically tested by the German Technology of Schwarzkopf & Henkel.

That's a lot of praise for this new product that I and my family have been using recently....though I must say, to each his own - just because we've liked it and felt comfy with it, doesn't mean you'll too and of course, just because it has suited us, that doesn't mean, it will suit you too ;-)

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It's just the simple happiness this product has given us and we wanted to share it with you, and so I thought of blogging about it to you :-)

Ciao
AC :)