saroj raja

saroj passed his his exams, could have done better, anyway no regrets, this bike i bought for him as he promised me good marks, now tensed with his addmision, his mother letting me down financially ( as usual stuff),hope he joins a good college and have good life ahead, wants to do mechanical engineering, kalu, thambi, ram have done this group.

tilak daughter ear boring ceremony held few days back, nice to meet all after my spore kl trip,

still understand very few like to comment on me in bad taste, specially in a function, any way i leave it to others to judge my care to others and all in ur family, take care. goutham

hi every body,.

as lali aunty says she is an active blogger unlike the rest of us. happy belated bday wishes aunty. the cake looks great and so do u.
babu u have to control your toungue for the sake of ur daughter. we indian women have been doing it from time immemorial to our husbands ,inlaws and to the sambandhis of our daughters. its time fathers also jumped into the bandwagon for the good of the family.

i find i had more time during my work days to blog rather than during my hols. my idea of a lazy summer hols is fast disappearing. we are planning atrip to coimbatore next weekend .

yesterday evening we had dinner at marina beach with chendhi and family. lots of wind, and sand added to the taste.

i am supposed to put in snaps of tilaks daughter ear boring ceremony to keep u all up to the mark on chennai gossip. will do it later.
kapu

Option E: None of the Above

The Indian voter has an option to say ’I don’t wish to vote for any of these candidates’.

If you are dissatisfied with the candidates and think they don’t deserve your vote; then by provision 49- O, you can go to the polling booth, confirm your identity, get your finger marked and tell the electoral officer that you don’t wish to vote.

Recently, a campaign has spread awareness of this rule through mail and SMS and pamphlets. See this link

To strengthen the case, the mails say that if the number of '49-O' votes polled are more than those of the winning candidate, then the poll will be cancelled and re-polling done. Furthermore, the contestants will be banned from the re-polling for their life times.

Unfortunately, this is not true. More details at this site about this Rule. 49-O is merely a rule for negative or neutral voting.

When I first heard about 49-O, I thought what a waste of public money! to hold a re-election. We might as well make the best choice of whatever ( or whoever) is available to us.

But, last night when I went through the list of candidates for our constituency, I was stumped to come up with the right or best candidate. Of the candidates from the three major parties, one is corrupt, one is terribly terribly corrupt and the third has 3 criminal cases pending against him. None of them are from our district. The remaining dozen people are absolutely unknown. What chances do they have on a national footing?

So I thought I would use the 49- O option. Not an easy decision to make or execute. First, I queued up in a booth with early birds all going off to work. Then they couldn’t match my voter ID. I was sent off to the party people to find my number. This took 45 minutes and I was escorted back to a different booth by our ex-Councillor who was happy to use this opportunity to spew abuses on the ruling party/govt. for the poor organization of voter lists.

After all the trouble he took, I was a little loath to turn in a null vote. But I did say “ I want to use the 49- O" aloud and created a furor. At first no one understood my request, then the chief officer made me sign in a book and wrote ‘Refused to vote’ which has made me rather sad.

Tulip festival

Dear All,

I am the active participant of this Blog.

1. Babu, Anya looks so beautiful. Congrats for your victory. But be careful when you go with your daughter. Dont invite troubles.

2. Thank you Karthy for your B.day wishes.

3. It was great to see a birthday cake brought by my Cherry lane friends as a surprice. It was beautiful and very tasty.

4. I am attaching few snaps taken in the Tulip show at Holand.(in USA).

With best Wishes.

Lalli Aunty

babu and anya at wembley

I thought I would add a pic of me and Anya at Wembley Stadium London where Manchester United were playing in the final. and off course we won, Almost got into trouble at the station on our way back when it was just us surrounded by the opposition `spurs' supporters, they were giving us a lot of stick. Their train arrived and they boarded the train as the trains door were closing made a real caustic comment about their team. The train took off moved a few feet and stopped....the opposition supporters were raving mad, making gestures at me. Thankfully the train started moving again, a big sigh of relief. Anya thought I was mad to make such a comment.

Sweet 16 !!

Hey everyone !! I know it was my b'day a week back but i only got round to blogging today-sorry... =)

anyway , it was totally AWESOME !! My friends came over as a surprise after school and we all jumped into the pool WITH our UNIFORMS on !!! It was really cool and when we turned up dripping at the front door...Sarassama nearly threw us out !

The next day we went to Little Italy ... the waiters nearly chucked us out at 9.30 , since we'd been there since 6.15 =) All in all , it was great celebration!!! A big thankyou to dad,mum,nan and julsi for everything !!!! Thanks for the invitation to US ..lalli aunty , don't think i'll be able to make it this year,,but who knows !!!

Lalli Aunty - Happy Birthday

Dear aunty
Wishing you a wonderful day and a year filled with fulfilled dreams....
Many happy returns of the day, aunty.