Holi days in Vancouver

Grand Holy days-Guyana and Vancouver

One month I spent my holy days with Chelva in Guyana, Chelvi's graduation in Denver and with Karthy and Vishy's family in Vancouver. I enjoyed my holidaysssssss!
Lalli Aunty

Kolaveri Di

Hi All,

I have enclosed an article that nandhika wrote and was one of the winners in Times of India Coimbatore competition

Also enclosed is an article in Indian express on sunday about her ( she has done 3 books not 4 as mentioned ! I am sure working on her fourth !)

Happy reading

Ravi

MY KOLAVERI MOMENT
That’s it, enough was enough. This maths exam I was determined to get centum, I was tired of being the average kid. The last time I had managed excellent marks in math was in LKG, not really something my mother still appreciates.
I woke up early that Sunday and spent a total of almost ten hours studying, no TV, no facebook, and hardest of all, I didn’t watch my favourite show, the Simpsons. (Trust me, it was agony, my sister watched it with full volume in the hall, and the theme song nearly wrenched my heart out.) But I still stayed at my desk and studied.
When I could take the exhaustion no longer, I fell asleep on my table at twelve, my books as pillows. I woke up the next day feeling confident and enthusiastic, if not tired and suffering from horrible neck pain. I even spent an extra hour studying in the morning (the first time in my life) and ended up going to school late. I sat down in my place just as they were distributing the question papers.
I don’t think I had ever been that happy to write an exam. When the teacher came to my place, I almost snatched the question the question paper out of her hand in eagerness. I placed it on the table, closed my eyes for a split second and opened them. There on the paper was “SCIENCE” in clear bold letters. It struck me then that I had forgot to note down the change in timetable previously, I put my head in my hands and thought “Why this kolaveri di?”
- Nandhika Nambi, age 15
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Starting young

Meet Nandhika Nambi, 15. Plays the piano, drums and recorder. Wants to study architecture, literature and do a diploma in music from the London School of Music. And, oh yes, she’s also written four books.

Now in class 10, Nandhika was just 11 when her father, Dr Rabi Nambi, a UK-based dermatologist, got her first book Sally’s World published and printed through pothi.com. “It was an amazing birthday gift,” laughs Nandhika who lives with her mom, older sister Aswatha, and younger sis Medha, in Coimbatore.

Her dad says mainstream publishers weren’t interested. “The big companies don’t accept anything unless you have an agent. And agents won’t touch your book unless you pay a certain amount. So I chose pothi.com,” he explains. Sally’s World has been well-received, but Dr Nambi says he didn’t self-publish to sell, but to encourage his daughter.

And Nandhika? “All I want to do is write”, she grins.

pongal special

all these photos were taken during pongal in 90 sivananda colony
.paati in her nighty and her hair cut.thatha as usual opening and closing water taps.the auto u see in paati photo is one of our servants husband's auto.in anotherphoto sindu and rakesh anna are eating the sugar cane pc chitappa peeled for them(reminds me of thatha doind the nongu peeling for me).the group photo was taken while sindu and rakesh anna were starting back home to chennai.u can see the thirunuru(ash)in their forehead.

i have to go to help mom in packing.she will go mad if i keep writing more stories.


bye
haru

Sydney Walk

The Sydney Harbour bridge has a famous Bridge Climb. One can climb up part of the bridge , view the harbour from up above and feel a great sense of satisfaction for having 'done' one of the 'wow' things in the world of travel. It takes about 2 -3 hours which includes about 1.5 hours of instruction.
Lacking 250$ to throw away on one day, Dachu and I decided to walk across the bridge. It's about 2.5 km long and would take anyone about half an hour or less. Since we take Advaith , his pram and paraphernalia wherever we go, we took twice as long.

some pics here

rest of the pics here on picasa

AT LAST I AM A DOCTOR

HAI
long time since i opened this blog.lots of new happenings.i have finally become a doctor.a full fledged registered medical practitioner.it seems so funny when people call me so...i think even nature couldnt take up the shock that i am a doctor.pondy was struck by a cyclone calledTHAANAE.it was a great disaster .Kalluchitti seems to be having fun will b back soon for good

FOREVER

HARU

Happy new Year

Thanks Lalli Aunty and Babu and Anya.
Sanju, Dachu will be writing to you soon.
Hope this is one more great year for everyone and we share more of ourselves on this blog. Obviously, people do like to log in and check what is happening with everyone else. But please do take the time to comment on other people's posts even if you are not posting yourself. Communication keeps us going.

Here is one picture of our trip on New Year.

taken from a helicopter over the southern coast of Australia. We went on the picturesque Ocean Drive and Prashanth treated us to a 5 min helicopter trip to see the 12 Apostles closer.

DACHU

happy new year

great paaaaaaaaaaaa

verrrrrry

nicethat you are going to

compleeeeeet

a year with

ADVAITH

SANJU