Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Sweet 16

Dear Ravi,
Sweet 16 is a precious birth day and Ashwatha deserves a Car. I would greatly appreciate if you send her to USA to me.I am here to take care of youngsters who would like to visit USA.My best wishes to Ashwatha . Grand-ma's good wishes for a bright break through in her academia.
Wish all the kids of 90 Sivananda colony for their prosperous future.I hope Goutham's son gets admission with out any difficulty.
Lalli Aunty

Let me congratulate PC for his best award for his professional excellence.Appreciation also to Kallu for holding his extraordinary slow motion of life with patience.Hi! Kallu A BIG "oooo" to you.
Lalli Aunty










Hello!,




Chinna baby Anni is fine looking. She is great, really achieved so much in life.She is a role model for all of you. Dear Anni, My best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous B.Day with long and healthy life.Let me add some of my creations here.




Lalli Aunty

Rangoli Kolam-Peacock and Lotus


Hello!

Lalli Aunty here. Let me first wish Dr.Sakthi Maheswari, A Happy Birthday.I have recently participated in a rangoli competition . I got third price.But it was fun. Immediately the next day I could not even move and Chelvi told me that I create problems for me and no one can help except that I had to swallow pain killers. I am attaching my kolam.I also spend my time in painting and doll making. See the clippings of those items too.

Lalli Aunty

Saturday, April 25, 2009

where is everybody?

HI
where is everybody? holidaying for summer?
Anandhi, glad you did your trip in your usual style and managed to fulfill all your vows.

Ravi, good Nandhika is keeping on your toes. Hear you are in cbe though? Welcome to Ooty any time. Will try to keep pond wellstocked before then. Right now, the fish keep dying which is normal with new ponds and new breeders I hear.
Hope some of your plans for Ash are coming through. Im sure she has a few for herself.

Goutham seems busy with getting Raja into college .that seems to have greater priority than knee surgery.

Sindhu is in Madurai doing market research on Chinni's masala. Will be joining Haru and GG this weekend at Dindigul so hope to hear from all those girls on this forum soon. Haru, don't set up more bugs in your Mom's PC before you leave.

PC was given a shield and certificate yday as Best Medical Officer.
Part of a govt-World Bank program to encourage staff in Govt Hospitals.
Should I post a pic? Everyone's seen a shield so I will desist.:-)

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Hi All...

been to guruvayoor, and chottanikara temples (Kerala) for 3 days via cbe. unlike our temples nobody nags for money or pushes you for special darshans... all in one queque.. though long ones..

chottanikara temple situated on a hillock was better in climate too..

so ravi you should be enjoying nandika's stay there...

I admire the way chinna baby athai organizes her work and the growth she has made in her hobby/career..

Anandhi

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

proud aunty or chitti

took her blessings in the morning, charu chitti just left wishing her and phones just kept her wishing her and we too wish her many returns of this day
anbudan goutham

chinna baby on her 70 th b day




Long time No Post

hello all
been a bit busy is a bit of an understatement,been very busy, Nandhika is here with me for the last 2 weeks and we are having a great father daughter time as far as i am concerned ( must ask her how she feels ! )
She keeps me on my toes, As soon as i wander off in my thoughts she drags me back
DAD YOU WERE NOT LISTENING I DONT WANT TO TALK TO YOU !
and then we become good friends Its great !
Some difficulties with childcare when i am working have been sorted out
The china trip has been cancelled for this year due to Ash's special classes at school
So it should be a quiet year now
Ash is sixteen on April 28 , planning on getting a car for her, sending her off by a private jet to Hawaii,shopping in New York on the way back ,some diamonds for good measure and,,,,,,,,and then Nan woke me up !
Kallu, Will come and visit your fish pond soon, Kapu enjoy the hols
No news from Anandhi
Take care
Ravi

Sunday, April 19, 2009

happy hols

hi everyone .
looking forward to a one month break from hospital in may. just likee school hols. thats the beauty of being a radiologist in govt set up. and also hoping to be chucked out of my private practise so that the holiday is total. of course i can leave the afternoon job but its not the same. i too want to experirnce the pink slip. !!!!!!.

babu so u still have the energy to organise birthdays. i gave up a few years ago and feel exhausted starting over for sanjay.

blog is a bit slow now a adays. every body is busy with holidays i think.

kalu ur fish pond looks cute. what about your guests. is it worth the effort.

the next in line requiring knee surgery is raja . sometime next month.

kapu

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

puthu andu valthukal

Everyone seems to be on a movie blitz... and lots of guests and inter-activites.
Kapu's house and life is overflowing. I've wathced a couple of Will Smith - the Pursuit of Happyness which was good and thrillers.

Babu, you are on a nostalgia trip with shirts and lambrettas. I guess you have to have done that to relate to the movie.
Anya seems to enjoy her birthdays thanks to a very imaginative father. Im sure you will find something else to do next year. trip to the arctic? samba class? ..

ravi where are you ? off on a trip to china with your family? or alone getting ready to take off.

I've built a small pond for fish so busy watching them anxiously to see whether they will survive.


And a bed and brekker couple at home right now -

Monday, April 13, 2009

vaaranam aayiram

Watched it on dvd a few weeks before. Surya goes through about 20 shirts in the song 'Munthiram' which is set in the seventies. I remember my collection of shirts to be very much similar.
I am getting really keen on an Indian Lambretta which features in the background in the song. I had one very similar. Any ideas where I could get one?

26 years of being married

As they say here, 'even a life sentence in jail is shorter'. Just took Shobha Anya and Valli out for a meal. Had my b'day celebration a few weeks before.

The next one is Anya's birthday which is next sunday when she will be 14, she is going 'go kart' racing with some friends. I think we have done all activities for b'days that I can think of, next year we would have gone full circle and I will get a bouncy castle in the garden for her b'day.

She had gone on a glider with Air Cadets on Saturday, it has been one of the rare Easter Break where the weather has been brilliant.
Once they took off the instructor handed over controls to Anya for about 30 minutes until just before landing.
I am glad I was'nt there to watch it.
Very busy at work, waiting for my new Madras Colleague to join me, she is currently holidaying in Florida.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

saw ayan with sajit friend who got free tickets for a premier show. of course in true family style as the invitation was for sajit and me only , took haru along and sadly sindhu was too busy to gate crash. movie was ok except for fight sequences. heroine was wishy washy and not too good. l locales and cinematogrPHY WAS GOOD AND ON THE WHOLE ME AND HARU ENJOYED IT AS IT WAS FREE AND WE GOT SERVED COFFEE AND BISCUITS.


sorry dint know that the capital key was pressed. dint mean to emphasize anything.
life is hectic at present with rameshs mum here, lots of visitors, expecting more and trying to fit in a few presentations and conferences too.
nice to see gg logged in at last ,
lali aunty the snaps are good.
gowtam showed all the blog snaps to chinna baby chithi . so we can sonn expect some comments and fresh gossip.

as u say a lot of change for the better in goutham. so caring and concerned. so much so that when he realised that sajit was driving me back home on the two wheeler he promptly rang up to enquire whether we had reached home safely.

kala athai has had a knee replCEMENT SURGERY. SHE LOOKED FINE WHEN I SAW HER. vidhu was also there for a holiday. the house for those of whom are in tune with gossip was better now, painted outside and cleaner inside. the garden was good.

kapu
kapu.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

hi atlast.......

hi...GG here not karthik
atlast found how to write
sajit keep yourself free between june 10th to 20th.
dhruv's mottai is pending
planning a trip to coimbatore for a month in may
hi lalli ammachi., thanx for th invitation..hows selvika..give her number.,shall call sumtime...heard she's working hard...wats the kid's name?
hi kallu chitti.,we might come for the flower show this year...shall call though...
bye for now,,,shall keep writing cos i know how to....
GG

Belated Birthdays

Another birthday that we missed.
Goutham's - which was in the last week of March. Goutham is very busy right now planning Saroj's admission to college.

This is a special birthday for Goutham, because he has been evolving so much over the past year. Success is bringing out all the nice qualities in him ( never mind the recession just now; he will bounce back).
Keeping in touch with the whole family ( only second to chinna baby chitti) ;
fits in anywhere and everywhere whatever be the crowd
can talk with any person and make them chat too
and nice sense of humor
now- hardworking too
Goutham, next year we want to add to this list so you'd better get some more nice qualities

Babu, we hope you had a series of parties this year too.

Wishing all the birthday people a great year ahead.

Happy Birth Day-




Dear Kalai ,
Happy birth day to you. I hope you enjoy your present job and hold it for your satisfaction. Let me also join Dhatchu to appreciate Kalai for her art of peeling the skin of mulgova mangoes. Yammmmmmmy!!!Let me not forget to say happy Birth day to my beloved(said in caution )sister in law ,Nirmala.I remembered my stay in Sakthi's house.OH! God .My sweet sister in law cooked so many nice dishes for me. Well we all had a nice break and I gathered from Nirmala latest news of our 90, Sivananda colony. Eminent and intelligent youngsters are just fleeing out of this Magic Hive. My dear kids Keep it up---Best Wishes to all of you. Any of your parents finance you an air ticket , visit Lalli Grand-ma.i WILL TAKE CARE OF YOUR EXPENDITURE HERE.

Dr.Lalithakumari

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Happy Birthday!!!

Every family has one person who holds the strings together, who knows whats hapenning with everyone, somehow manages to keep in touch with people no matter how far away.. and constantly worries about what each one is doing... even makes plans for their future.. :D
In ours I think that Thatha fits this bill perfectly and the next in line is Kalai periamma...
Shes the kind of person no one can say no to
Warm and welcoming- she always make people feel at home immediately
The family organizer- none of the family functions could have hapenned without her
Planner extraordinaire
Perfectionist
Exhausting shopaholic
And the most amazing quality... the way she peels a mango at one go.. im sure all of us have been awestruck by the way she does it... and ive tried and failed so many times to do the same :))

Happy birthday Kalai Periamma!!!
This year has brought you a lot of new things already...
May the year ahead bring you lots of good expereinces