An Unforgettable Session of Life Time with Prof.Mahadevan sir

Hello friends it was on the morning of 25th April 2007, I came to college in a hurry amidst the vechicle crowded trafficous roads of chennai. On reaching the college i was directed by my class representative to go to Henry Mauldslay Hall in the Mechanical Dept. I could not understand why this guy is telling us to go there. And later reaching there i found one of favorite teacher, my english sir Dr. Dhanavel sitting under the tree opp. to the hall welcoming us with a ever smiling face. He took our attendence and directed us to fill the registration form and enter the hall. And finnaly I went to the hall, everyone in the hall were curious to know whats going to happen, then came our English HOD, with a mic in her hand. She told that this session is going to be an unforgettable session in your lives. Then I understood that something is going to happen. Then entered the hall a respectable man with a spanish beard, wearing a blue coat. I thought tat he must be some person from someother state. But he started his speach in our mother toungue tamil. He introdued himself as Mr.Mahadevan sory Mr.P.Mahadevan, where that P stands for "perfect". He told that he is memory specialist and a trainer for the Guiness Book of world records, and that he has trained around 85 students to that. He just called me and asked for my name and i proudly said "my name is Parthiban sir"..It went on like this and he gave some tips. In the middle he called his disciple and demonstrated a memory techniche, he told 30 of us to give 30 different objects and after some time he told us to query her with those 30 objects randomly, to my surprise she told the things exactly even without a small mistake in the things. In the winding up of the session he told that he is going to show us some extraordinary thing. What he did was he told incident of a birth of child that was about 18years old at the end of that i realised that it was my date of birth and it was me whom he was telling about. After that he kept on answering the DOB's of the students and to our surprise he was able to answer everyone. Then he told that its all by consistant practise. Then he told about the program that our Vice-Chancellor requested him to organise. And thats how we ended that session. It was an unforgettable session.

CALL FOR MORE INTERACTION ON THE BLOG

Dear Students,
You may be busy with your assessment tests and end semester practical examinations. Even then do spare some time to visit your blog and post comments and new posts. Only through constant interaction through the blog, the blog will grow with you. You attended the seminar on memory improvement and life enahancement conducted by Mr P Mahadevan. You could share your views on such happenings in your campus.
Let me hope more students will participate in this web communication.
S P Dhanavel

WHY IS TAMIL NEW YEAR CELEBRATED ?

Puthandu, more frequently known as the Tamil New Year and Vishu are celebrated on the same day respectively in the Southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. They generally fall on 13 April or 14 April. The Tamil New Year is celebrated on the first day of the Hindu Solar Calendar. Every year in the month of Chithrai (the first month of the Hindu solar calendar), in the temple city of Madurai, the Chithrai Thiruvizha is celebrated in the Meenakshi Temple. A huge exhibition is also held, called Chithrai Porutkaatchi. In some parts of Southern Tamil Nadu, it is also called Chithrai Vishu. The day is marked with a feast in Hindu homes and entrances to the houses are decorated elaborately with kolams.
On the Tamil New Year's Day, a big Car Festival is held at Tiruvadamarudur near Kumbakonam. Festivals are also held at Tiruchirapalli, Kanchipuram and many other places.
In a recent Assembly Resolution, Tamilnadu Government has resolved that henceforth, January 14th of every year will be celebrated as Tamil New Year's day in addition to the famous harvest festival Pongal. But the said resolution has no public support. It has to be seen whether in due courese, the above move denies April 13/14 the festival colour enjoyed by it for time immemorial.
HAPPY TAMIL NEW YEAR !!

Second Assessment Marks for English II HS 181

Sl No
Roll No.
Name
Attendance –25
Marks --100
1
20071401
Abinav Santhosh D
21
75
2
20071402
Anitha. V
23
73
3
20071403
Bernard Felix C
21
78
4
20071404
Bhuvaneshvari S
25
55
5
20071405
Deepak K
25
73
6
20071406
Deepika B
25
95
7
20071407
Dharmaraj D
AAA
AAA
8
20071408
Dinesh Kumar V
23
80
9
20071409
Feroz Khan M
20
65
10
20071410
Gopi R
21
85
11
20071411
Goutham C
22
80
12
20071412
Haresh G
23
80
13
20071413
Harish S
20
60
14
20071414
Manoj H
24
83
15
20071415
Muthuraj N
15
53
16
20071416
Nagarajan R M R
25
93
17
20071417
Natchammai Revathy P
25
95
18
20071418
Naveen N
25
83
19
20071419
Nethirajan B
21
53
20
20071420
Parthiban D
25
70
21
20071421
Pradeep Kannan M
18
75
22
20071422
Rajkumar T
20
83
23
20071423
Rajshree R
24
73
24
20071424
Ramachandra Venkatarman
22
88
25
20071425
Ramesh G
21
50
26
20071426
Ranjithkumar E
25
80
27
20071427
Reena S
25
83
28
20071428
Romit Kris Sriram
18
80
29
20071429
Rubesh P
24
78
30
20071430
Sahitya K
24
90
31
20071431
Santhish Kumar P R
22
58
32
20071432
Sathish K
20
68
33
20071433
Sathishkumar M
15
68
34
20071434
Sharvan Vaidianath
AAA
AAA
35
20071435
Sriram S
23
75
36
20071436
Subramanian V
25
60
37
20071437
Sureshkumar D
21
93
38
20071438
Suresh K
22
83
39
20071439
Velladurai U
23
65
40
20071440
Vinoth G
20
55
41
20071441
Vivek D
23
85
42
20071442
Mahidar Karan G
25
70
43
20071443
Ajay Gurudev
21
73
B.E Manufacturing II Semester 2008, II Assessment Test
Dr S P Dhanavel, AP/English, English II HS 181

Non-verbal Communication

Biblical saying: Man does not live by bread alone.
Dhanavel's saying: Man does not communicate by words alone.
Evidence: Albert Mehrabian's book Non-Verbal Communication. 1972.
Communcation takes place as follows: By visual elements -- 55 %
By vocal elements -- 38 %
and by verbal elements -- 7 %
On seeing this everybody should be able to ponder why our communication fails very often. We should look at our own voice and body language more carefully to communicate effectively in future.
Wacth some TV programmes where body and visual language is more prominent than words.
This is one of the best ways for developing non-verbal communication skills.
Best wishes,
S P Dhanavel