Let's Try and Do It - Making of my little elephant

Let's Try and Do It - Making of my little elephant

It is summer holidays time and so let us take advantage of it from within our home. Let us Try and Create a Little Elephant.

It is very easy to create this little elephant following the simple instructions through this picture. What you need is just a combination of circles, boxes, lines and shapes, and fixing it up to get a cute little elephant.

The objective behind this exercise is to underline clearly that each and every participant, irrespective of whether he is an expert or a novice, are treated, guided and nurtured equally here at Team 1 Talent Share.

Secondly, this is a platform for exhibition of Talent and not a competition arena. Therefore, it is a request to children to submit their works, only when they feel, they have done it in complete form with out any rush or hurry. Even if they submit there entry and feel, they could redraw, or retouch it and present it, they could resubmit as a fresh one, so that we could realise the difference, the additions and enjoy the overall aesthetic beauty of each work presented.

This is an instinctive creative platform constantly worked on by me, and how and where the submitted works by you all reach and to what extent is unpredictable. Therefore, utilise this platform with dedication and devotion.

Bring in as many friends who has a creative talent in him or her.

Let their creativity motivate us to present better creative items each time we wish to. Do not hold your thoughts or do not have any inhibitions while you create your works. Accept criticism, if any, with good spirits and understand the mistakes and rectify it the next time you work.

Wish you all the very best.

Ramesh Menon21 April 2011

Let's Try and Do it - Water Melon cultivation

Let's Try and Do it - Water Melon cultivation

Here is a simple Let's Try and Do It for your kids to participate and enjoy during the forthcoming holidays.

Do you have a small balcony, or a small piece of land. Then next time you go for your vegetable shopping, come back home a water melon fruit. Enjoy eating the fruit, selecting a few seeds separate.

Let your children plant those seeds in a pot and let it be watered mildly each day. In a few days, they will be thrilled to see the plant coming up and it will be growing fast. Put a little of manure if you have, otherwise also it will grow taking in the natural sources from the soil.

Attached photo is of a small time farming I have done in my balcony at Abu Dhabi.

Try it and send in pictures of your plantation. I am sure you will enjoy.

Ramesh Menon
17.04.2011

Classic advertisement movies - Arabic - on Raakaan

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Manzil - Sports Day Invitation - 3rd February 2011

Dear Friends,

The much awaited Manzil Annual Sports Day is here.The students and staff have put in a lot of effort and being practising for the same for over two months.

Please come to cheer and encourage them and help make this sports day a success!

Manzil Admin
Ph.9716 5347663
Fax:9716 5347664
management@manzil.ae
www.manzil.ae

"manzil will provide a highly professional care-giving and learning environment for individuals with special needs to nurture their potential & develop the requisite self-help, social, educational & vocational skills that are required to function in society"

e Nidhi SREE Nidhi - an opportunity to support children who wants to study

e Nidhi SREE Nidhi - an opportunity to support children who wants to study

Dear Friends,

On behalf of Team 1 Talent Share group and blogs, I wish to encourage, motivate and support poor children to study and progress well in the life. With this in mind, I wish to initiate:

• A Scholarship in terms of a variety of assistance (monetary benefits, books, uniform, support etc) - to those children from families with difficulties to educate their children in the 10th, 12th and Degree education.

• Encourage them to join for higher studies in Engineering subjects (Civil, Electrical, Electronics and Engineering) and Medicine.

The idea now is to plan and provide:

• one cash award each for girls and boys for 10th, 12th and Graduation who gets high marks in the respective exams.

• additional bonus amounts ( in terms of cash) will be awarded according to:

• The child's extracurricular abilities like skills in sports and arts will get extra rating.
• His/her parents education (the lesser the education of the parent and the higher mark he gets, he will get a higher rating)
• Any physical disabilities he/she has in life will get special consideration and rating

The above are the basic criteria I have thought about for initiating this scheme for the first time.

You can participate in two ways:

1. If interested, you may join hands with me are welcome to contact me by email team1dubai@gmail.com.
2. You may identify a needy child and introduce him/her and his/her parents to me so that as a team we could finalise what are their requirements for a successful educational environment to come up in life.

If identified, children in earlier classes of education will also be supported under this scheme.

It is also planned support and facilitate better reading room facilities in school and villages in the rural areas.

As we work ahead, we will fine tune the proposed scheme named e Nidhi SREE Nidhi and make it more attractive and interesting to those needy children in our community.

Thanking in advance my family and friends for the support for the success of this educational scheme.

Looking forward to your positive reply in this regard and then we will work on further to make it a reality.

True regards,

Ramesh Menon
E-mail: team1dubai@gmail.com

Manzil Participating at the 4th Used Book Festival in the UAE

Do you have used story books which you would like to donate for a worthy cause?

If so, please send it to:

Manzil, 06 5347663, Sharjah. Or contact:

Ramesh Menon, (E-mail: team1dubai@gmail.com) (if you are in Abu Dhabi.)

Manzil will receive these used story books which will be put on sale and the proceeds will be used for the welfare of challenged children.



Regards,

Ramesh Menon

Art work Uttara Chowdhury

Art work by Nayonika Chowdhury

Taste It - Chicken Lollipop Recipe by Sanish Cherian

Taste It - Chicken Lollipop Recipe by Sanish Cherian

Ingredients

1 egg white
Chicken wings-6 pieces
Cornflour-3 tbsp
Maida- 11/2 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste-1-2 tbsp
Salt to taste
Pepper powder-1 pinch
Soya sauce-Few drops
Vinegar- few drops
Red chilli powder-to taste
Ajinomoto-1 pinch
Tandoori colour-1 pinch
Oil for frying
Directions

Marinate chicken wings by mixing all the ingredients.
Keep it for an hour
Deep fry till done

Courtesy: Sanish Cherian

Pencil Sketches by Mamatha M

Taste It - Ice Cream Falooda Recipe by Sanish Cherian

Ingredients:

Vanilla Ice cream – 2 Scoops
Cold Milk(Thick) – 1/2 Cup
Almonds, Kismis(Raisins), Cashews and Dry Apricots – Chopped – 2 Tablespoons
Cooked Falooda Samiya – 2 Tablespoon
Pink color Syrup – 1/2 Teaspoon(store bought) – optional
Sabja(Takmaria) Seeds – 1/2 Teaspoon – Soaked
Coconut Powder – 1/2 Teaspoon

Method:

Take 1 Cup of whole milk and put 1 tablespoon of sugar and boil till it reduces to 1/2 cup and chill it.
Take a tall glass and put 2 scoops of ice cream. Put Semiya on one side and put coconut powder on the other side.
Now put the Sabja seeds and pink syrup. Add the dry nuts on top.
Now put the chilled milk on top.
You can garnish it with a cherry

Courtesy: Sanish Cherian

Winners and Winning entries - 14th November 2010 Painting competition conducted by Indian Embassy Abu Dhabi

Picture courtesy: Indian Embassy, Culture Wing

No Matter How Far You Have Gone From Me.....Poem by Sanish Cherian

No Matter How Far You Have Gone From Me.....

So sure that my words will reach,
I write to the person whom you were
and are no more.

You withdrew from existence
To merge in the wider universe
And become
the past, present and future of time.

I witnessed
the long and hard way you climbed to the
dream.
Now, I witness how well you built the bridge
between existence and eternity.

Your existence
Was a hymn to life’s glory.
It blew my sails to life’s distant horizons
And powered my wings to
the furthest dimensions of imagination.

Your glorious embrace of eternity
Showed me how truly death
is an extension of life.

Be pleased.
You made me clearly discern
between life & survival.
I am pleased.
You are there
more than ever

Will Love You Always No Matter How Far You Have Gone From Me.....

Paintings by Mahiba Mehamood Hakim - Christmas 2010

Paintings by Mahiba Mehamood Hakim - Happy Birthday to E-Junior

Paintings by Mahiba Mehamood Hakim - HSE Initiatives

Paintings by Maliha Mehamood Hakim - HSE Initiatives

Paintings by Mahiba Mehamood Hakim

Essay - My Grandfather by Maliha Mehamood Hakim

My Grandfather

Of all the people in my family, I admire my Grandfather the most.

Not only is he the most inspirational person from our family but I don’t think I can ever find any person like him to whom I can look upto.

His main qualities are his hardwork, honesty and a God Fearing Personality.

At the age of 11 years, he became Quran Hafiz and when he grew up, he became a Pharmacist.

He started working from a very young age of 18 years and continued working till the age of 75.

He ensured that all his sons including my father were well educated as he knew the importance of education in today’s world.

 He gave all his sons not only worldly knowledge but also made sure that they are also equipped with Islamic Knowledge as he knew that this life is only temporary and to succeed in this life and hereafter you should follow the Islamic teachings.

All his life he did everything on his own without taking any help or obligations from anyone. He bowed to ALLAH and asked help only  from the Almighty.

Although, he could not make much money in his life, but Alhamdulillah, he satisfied all the requirements of his family with whatever he earned.

He always guides us in our life and we are very happy and lucky to seek his advice.

When I grow up, I want to follow in his footsteps so that I could be successful both in this World and hereafter.

May ALLAH give him a long life so that he can continue guiding us for many years to come.

               

                                Aameen!

Paintings by Maliha Mehamood Hakim - Happy Birthday to E-Junior

Paintings by Maliha Mehamood Hakim

Paintings by Maliha Mehamood Hakim

Paintings by Maliha Mehamood Hakim - HSE Initiatives

Paintings by Maliha Mehamood Hakim - HSE Initiatives

Short Take - GULF TODAY - Dt. 27.11.2010 - Creative Kids

Short Take - GULF TODAY - Dt. 27.11.2010 - Creative Kids

Creative kids

This was a busy week in which the UAE witnessed the visit of Indian President Prathibha Devising Patil.

A few days prior to her visit, Nov.14 to celebrate Children’s Day, a painting competition was organised by the Cultural Wing of the India Embassy. The event was held at Abu Dhabi Indian School. About 1,400 children from various schools in the UAE participated in this well organised event.

The senior participants were to choose any of the four themes - children of the world, save the girl child, the independence movement and the joys of childhood. Grades 1 to 4 pupils were given the themes of “Chacha Nehru” and “my school.” What made interesting insight into this event was the way the organisers made sure to make the children feel the presence of Jawaharlal Nehru. Those children who participated in the event thoroughly enjoyed it as they were well taken care of during the event.

Interests in non-performing arts like painting, drawing and writing give opportunity for children to express their mind and thoughts in simpler ways. Any given opportunity to conduct and showcase such talents should never be missed.

According to the organisers, the painting competition would be conducted every year.

One interesting factor came out of this competition was the fact that out of the 12 winners, 11 were girls and there was only one boy amongst the winners. Sunrise English Private School Abu Dhabi (4 prizes) came out with maximum winners followed by Abu Dhabi Indian School (3 prizes) and Delhi Private School Dubai (3 prizes). St Joseph School Abu Dhabi and Gulf Asian School Sharjah bagged one price each.

An icing on the cake for the winners was that the Indian president distributed the prizes during her visit to Abu Dhabi Indian School.

Ramesh Menon

To read it in original, please visit GULF TODAY online.

Caricature by Joseph Karaparambil

Drawings by Joshua Godfrey

Drawings by Javahir Abdulla

Drawings by Uttara Chowdhury

Drawings by Nayonika Chowdhury

Eid Mubarak

Manzil - a destination, a dream, a hope - gets 27 pcs from GHD

Manzil - a destination, a dream, a hope - gets 27 pcs from GHD

ART Excel Course - An exciting opportunity for children during Eid Holidays!!

An exciting opportunity for children during Eid Holidays!!

Dear all,

For children between the age of 8 and 13 , this is a golden opportunity to spend the Eid Holidays in the best possible way.

Please contact immediately for registering since the seats are limited.

Do take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to enrich your child's life in the most positive way!!

Please circulate to all your friends so that maximum children can benefit.

Let's Try and Do It - How to seal a plastic bag and make it air-tight.

Let's Try and Do It - How to seal a plastic bag and make it air-tight.

Cut up a  disposable water bottle and keep the neck and  top, as in  photo.

Insert the plastic bag through  the neck and screw the top – to seal.

The bottle is made to be  air-tight, such that water will not leak, the secret lies with the top  and screw!

This is a great idea to share. Good for us and the environment too. 

Let's Try and Do It - Color the lamp

Let's Try and Do It - Color the lamp

Thanks and courtesy to GULF NEWS. Funday by GULF NEWS is a special pull out for children on Saturday.

Let's Try and Do It - Sweet Tooth

Let's Try and Do It - Sweet Tooth

Thanks and courtesy to GULF NEWS. Funday by GULF NEWS is a special pull out for children on Saturday.

Let's Try and Do it - Lantern Craft

Thanks and courtesy to GULF NEWS. Funday by GULF NEWS is a special pull out for children on Saturday.

Manzil - Creativity at it's best

Manzil - Creativity at it's best

Drawing and painting projects are perfect for children who have trouble expressing themselves verbally, whether the child has a speech issue or hearing impaired and  doesn't communicate well vocally. Drawing and painting allows these children to bring their feelings out visually, which improves their artistic ability as well as their communication skills. Drawing and painting is often a good way to get children to express themselves on their own terms.

We at Manzil are so glad that our art activities have nurtured the development of cognitive and motor skills of our students.  Art is also a great sensory experience! Messes aside, this activity has given our students the opportunity to work with several different kinds of materials that can stimulate the senses.

The parents are often surprised to know that a piece of paper or canvas that their child just scribbled or painted on, is so valuable.

Manzil Art Collection

The student’s creative endeavors were so amazing that we at Manzil decided to use Art to introduce our students to the UAE public in the form of an annual art collection. The very first collection of 2006 comprised 32 pictures (on canvas) by every student at the center.

The collection was extremely well received by the public and is now a regular annual feature. Each collection is based on a unique theme.

The 2006 collection was titled ‘Ki-I Did It, in 2008 ‘Flora & Fauna’ series received many accolades, ‘Midas Touch’ 2009 series comprises 48 most amazing pieces, each unique with its own distinctive style.    

Each piece of artwork is done by the student alone and at the center. Students are encouraged to title their own piece and to dictate or write a comment about their artistic creation and about themselves. Minimal guidance or direction is provided by the teaching staff.

What started as a therapy class has now burgeoned into art collections and we at Manzil together with our supporters conduct art auctions and take special customized orders for greeting cards, images on mugs, place mats, T-shirts etc. In addition our large canvases adorn the walls of corporate offices and people’s homes.

To read more about Manzil and it's activities, please visit http://www.manzil.ae/