Diwali 2009

தீபாவளி வாழ்த்துக்கள் !...
दिवाली बधाई
Diwali Greetings!...
Feliz Diwali

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Navarathiri 2009

Well, here we are after a little while - with our Navarathri collections. I still have some backlog of Disney visit I , visit II, Beach visit, Kayak and the list goes on.... May be nothing worth capturing the place of Anu in News and now with Navarathri -we beat that :)

Here you go - as always share your comments.

Next update will be video link - currently processing and awaiting approval from owners

Cheers

Traditional Link Navarathri 2009

TALK OF THE TOWN

Well, there was a huge sales of news paper yesterday, no no, not because it carried the coupon of iPhone, but because Anu Radha "Danesan" opinions and views are printed "On the Spot"

Look for yourself, here is a screen shot GOOGLE PDF

Text version

ON THE SPOT

ANU RADHA DANESAN
STAY-AT-HOME MOTHER


In the light of current economic recession, have you cut back your spending?
We've cut back our spending on just about everything

Specifically what?
Clothes, entertainment, all luxuries

Where have you cut back on entertainment?
We used to go the movies every week. Now we go every other month.

Have you done anything esle?
Coupons. I've become a great coupon clipper.

What luxuries have you cut back on?
No more manicure or pedicures, and no more extra clothes for the kids.

Bhishak in the town!...

Some photos of Bhishak

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Looking back!....

Thanks to Yahoo photo service, we had to move all our photos elsewhere
Here is the link on some of our 2006 photos - Every week, will add few more photos, keep checking please...

2006

Bhishak's Second Birthday

This is so great a moment to share with you, Bhishak already stepped into his third year;

Here are some delightful photos and clippings of the Party.

Birthday snaps and clippings

some more snaps from our friend

See you soon, 

Cheers - Bala, Bhishak & Anu  

Ek Khoj

Hi,

Bhishak is now reading books - please see the snapshot

December 2008

The end of the year is fast approaching, hope the coming year is better and brings in lots of prosperity to us and to you and all of us on this blue planet

Here are some photos when we went to LCS.

Lion country Safari

பிஷக் in action

Bhishak in cocopark

cocopark

Cocoswing

nasaldrips

bhishak at work

Bhishak and அணில்

Dheepavali 2008

We had a nice time this year on Diwali eve.

Here are few snaps from my little cam - this time also tried my best to get family shots - just missed one of our best though ...

DIWALI 2008


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the last few fotos show how we celebrated the diwali-day, and yeah - anu's hand work on sweets as well as mehandi :)

See you soon with more memories - stay tuned....

Navarathri

The Navarathri of 2008 was indeed interesting, thanks to Bhishak. We made his crib as the stage for golu and celebrated all nine days with different varieties of "sundal".


Here is a small sample of our GOLU


Forgive my half - pant; i didn't realize till I uploaded and by the time, all navarathri was over all golu bommai's laid down to rest. Next year we will meet in veshti

India Visit

Yes, we finished the 31/2 week visit to India and roamed all over south India, criss crossing Chennai and Trichy few times.

This time, its not only joyous occasion, also had tasted all other rasams on our way as various things happened in last 3 years.

As promised, before doing any personal work except in-laws function, visited Srivari Venkatachalapathy on Guru Poornima. Even in the most crowded darshan of moolavar, where minutes before darshan, have personally erupted on those non-human creatures who forcibly moved in - Deepti's "Chitthapa, nasukaraanga" still rings in my ears - all of those vanished the moment entered the garuda mandapam, they didn't allow me till artha mandapam, still had some snappy moments of darshan that will be in me till I see HIM next.

As you all know, how lazy I am, didn't get to finish my personal promises, the only one I did was the tooth surgery/plaster what ever its called and yes this time also I lost the implant exactly at terminal 4 of heathrow. Think there is a jinx with london customs and my tooth implant. Next time I am sure to get a spare and courier it. Am not sure how long I need to wait for this. we will see.

Starting here, as always, had to repack some at Miami, and this time being the first travel for Bhishak, he tried some crying for first 2 hours then he realized that nothing will change - so he started playing with toys and calmed out on his own. Once we reached chennai, Deepti and NLN were waiting out, nice to see someone waiting after a long travel.

After a brief nap, we went out to see our new branch twig Niranjan, very smart small doll. We celebrated Deepti's birth star day.

Purchased dress for in-laws and started to trichy. After function is done, stopped at Perambalur, couldn't show the no 2 vivekananda st to Bhishak and Anu.

Then Bhishak's ear piercing and second round of ayush homam has been done in a very homely way with most invitees blessings. We took off from there to Tirupathi/Tirumala. Parked car on the foot hills, arranged a driver and we walked/climbed seven hills by foot - took 61/2 hours for 7 kms and the climbing of 1400 steps from ground level. It's all in night and we reached 6 in the morning at Tirumala.

After darshan, traced back to Chennai, had the samaradhanai, rested a day, started again for Bangalore, Trichy and back to Chennai and finally here we are.

Again from Chennai to Miami - BA gentleman changed flights in such a complicated way that we will fly chennai to london to houston to fort lauderdale and our luggages via washington. What he forgot is that all luggages needs to go through customs. It took a sweet 2 hours to checkin in chennai. We landed an hour earlier in London, but the BA personnel again showed thumbs down - we continued the horrible extra travel and here we arrived at 11ish in night. Thanks to our friends, who came down to drop us at home.

Here are the first set of snaps, some are on chennai and some in Trichy. Will collate all and add here soon.

PHOTO

Bhishak's First Birthday

Yeah, correct, all were wondering why is it too late to post the pictures of Birthday, all our photos are backed up regularly in an external hard drive, this was put up on a stress testing by Bhishak, the Fantom HD drive accepted its defeat and went broke from its inner core, before we could web load the birthday snaps.

Finally, thanks to one of my community neighbour, who happens to be data recovery expert, got the deleted photos from SD card with a little piece of advise that the Hard drive is worth only for garbage.

So here we are, presenting some of the Birthday memories, though the best shots are lost, here are some cool snaps.

Ayush homam :-

U.S economy is turning southwards and no more offshoring, so we brought the priest onsite

Birthday :-

Bhishak's getting vaccination

Here is how Bhishak got his checkup and vaccination done today

Flamingo Gardens

After a short (long?!) break, am back here with more visual treat.
For now, am adding the links to view - will edit next week end with the story

Video links:


Bhishak in rain forest

Parrot saying hello to Bhishak

Bhishak and rope walk

Bhishak and flat beaked crane

Peacock walk

Screaming parrot

Bhishak in flamingo tram

Bhishak Dancing


Photo links:

Flamingo Gardens

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sketch

A small sketch of my brother LakshmiNarayanan N

Bhishak B Sharma

It's been seven weeks and couldn't post about Bhishak, He is doing good and now learnt to smile a lot, shout at times to make sure we speak to him only, demands and also chooses the dress.

He started listening and now his favorite friends are the trees - he talks to them continuously and at times asks the trees to come inside(!) and if they are not listening, starts crying out loud enough.

Keeps us busy in all ways, to attend on to him, to play and talk to him, change diapers, ...

Here are some quick snaps from day zero to now.

Post your wishes and comments

- Click Bhishak for full screen options to view the photos



Bhishak

APPA AMMA in Fort Lauderdale

Hi,
It's been a little while we met in blog;
Last 2 weeks, it's been real busy over here in FLL - The climate was so radical, within 5 days, we have seen hot sun, cold winter, slashy rain, cloudy dull...
Kind of quick demo of the whole year (thankfully there is no stroms here ....)

Please see below a quick view of the most happenings

*) We took them over for a small "pattinaprevesam" and here is the view

FLL with Appa Amma I

*) They tried arranging a "valaikaappu" and seemantham for Anu. With much help from our friends and family out there, we successfully managed to have the trio function of UDAGA SANTI, SEEMANTHAM, PUMSUVANAM and the final "poo"choottal

A brief list and arrangement made possible by the things brought by appa (including porcupine needle) and we set out for shopping the list - made two three trips to local stores to gather HOMA kundam, havan saamagri, samiththu - luckily we have huge banyan trees next to our home and able to stash lots of samiththu.

There were 3 cassettes, 2 for UDAGA SANTI and one for seemantham. We rehearsed by listening all mantra's and thereby preparing the final list which included items that are freely available out there but haven't had here.

After consulting our "family" josyar, appa gave me choice of 2 days of which only one is in valarpirai and so the best (and sort of forced to take that :) )

We realised quickly that comes on Dec 29th which is sort of last working day and no way to go late to office - added to this the rahu starts by 10:30

Planned for Udaga santi on Thursday evening and went fine for 3 hours completely.

Thanks to Bangalore Ganapatigal (Anu's athimber), we requested for his virtual presence during the seemantham and especially at the time of homam. He was so patient and listening - We started at the morning 5ish for valaikaappu and then with the vigneswara pooja the homam started.
Connected the phone to computer to listen to the mantram from bangalore (sort of offshore design and development and onsite implementation :o) )

I personally feared any fire alarm during the whole process and we also have our closest neighbour - a COP. :(

Luckily, the morning was so clear and no fog - we had the whole homam as well as other rituals done by 10:22 a.m.

Here are the snaps

Udaga Santi, Pumsuvanam,Seemantham


Thanks and add your asirvathams in comments

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