Little Joys of Life

After passing out from school, I hardly remember celebrating Children's day. And now, After all these years, the thought of celebrating children's day brings a huge smile on my face :) Yes, We are going to celebrate it @ our office. In our organization, they have a CSR initiative which was started approximately during the same time in 2004. Every year they used celebrate their anniversary on Nov.14th. And this time, as they are completing 5 years, they have decided to celebrate it for 1 complete week (Nov 16 - Nov 20). We do have a lot of attractions. Completely decorated office, kids invited from homes, movie screenings for them, stalls, games for children and for us too :))

The top one on the list is the part "High school Musical". Each floor in the organization is supposed to be one school and people have to come in school uniforms on last day (Nov 20). After a lot of discussions we decided our uniform will be of white and khaki combination. (White shirt and khaki pant for guys, white chudi and khaki dhuppatta for girls). We are asked to come with school bags, if possible with a lunch bag too ;))) We also have interschool competitions to exhibit our talents :))) Now, with all these introductions, I am eagerly looking fwd to the new week :))

This is one of my favourite song which takes me back to my wonderful school days.

The original season 1 song.. but the clarity is really bad :(

This little angel Kurinji malar(a) pappu 's bday was on Oct 28th and her mother sandanamullai (a) aachi arranged a special bday party for blogger friends on Oct 11th (Spl ppl get first preferrence u see ;)). I was so unlucky to miss the party, as I had to go for ARR's concert. Surprisingly, she called on friday and told there is another party on this saturday for pappu's school mates. It was so nice of her to reinvite me and I confirmed her that I would definitely be there for the party.

Next day after few roundings (in search of her street) @ Madipakkam, I reached her house. Initially pappu dint recognize me (as we had met only once and that too was longtime back). But within few minutes we got along nicely and split up into two teams. Pappu and myself in one team while aachi and aadhi (Her neighbour's kid) formed another team. We started creating an elephant using building blocks game. Slowly people started coming in.

I was so happy to meet varshini & venmathi (pappu's classmates - Whoever reads aachi's blog would have known known them very well as most of her posts are about pappu and her little world :))) ). Then these motherly talks started. I was surprised when aachi told, "everyday pappu will be asking her to put different types of hairstyles ( two plaits one day, just a clip another day.. ), the reason being varshini, who came with that particular hairstyle on the previous day :D She proudly said varshini is the role model for pappu :)

Varshini and pappu were in full form to roam around the house playing hide and seek, karate fighting, lifting each other etc.. Venmathi on the other hand was so reluctant to move away from her mother even when pappu and varshini called her for n no.of times. Later they decided that she will not come without her mother and directly called venmathi's mother to come with venmathi :))

There was this kid Harshith (If I remember the name correctly). He was reacting like a big man saying no for photos and girly games. He was more interested in getting updates about cricket score. Then there were few neighbour's kids. Then we had tailing the horse game and cake cutting ceremonies. After snacks session, as everyone left, venmathi was busy painting. Aachi and venmathi's mom got busy with their motherly topics. So pappu and myself were left alone and we started playing with an imaginary cat. We were running around hiding from the cat, but the cat finally got us and started biting :( So we throwed the cat via balcony gate and returned to our room. After few seconds, pappu with a sad face said "poonai azhuvudhu" (Translation for swaram - cat is crying ;)) Then we felt pity for the cat, took it back and gave it shelter :))))

Before starting aachi was giving return gifts to all kids and surprisingly she gave me one too :)) A key chain and a camel miniature :))) Enna innum kozhandhayaavae paakkara ivangala ellam nenacha.. avvvvvvvvvv... enakku azhuvaachi azhuvaachiya varudhu ;))) [Sri, I leave this translation part to U :)) I know u could do it better than me ;)]

On the whole it was a very fun-filled evening. Special thanks to aachi and pappu :)))

After seeing Gils's 55 fiction, I couldn't control my eager to write one. Let God save my readers ;)))

She was so jealous of the newcomer
Who took all her possessions
And made her feel the emptiness.
She started awaiting her next turn
As their owner placed her in a safety locker
And started using the new purse !!

Hehe.. I was using the same purse for more than two years now and thought of changing to a new one. I was on a purse search for more than two months now and finally got a new one this week, which satisfied all my requirements :P As the old purse was a gift from my friend, I had decided to save it in my locker :)

When I was filling my new purse with all those cards, cash, etc.. I found these empty spaces where I can keep photos. Deciding the photo for first two spaces were easy as I had them in my old purse too. (One was a photo of Lakshmi, Saraswathi & Pillaiyar and another one was the snap I took with my L&T Friends at Maruthamalai in 2004. we all would look like bakthi pazhams in that snap ;) ). Now for the third space I had to search for another photo. I took all my albums and started searching and finally decided to put this photo there :)

The divine marriage where brother Vishnu hands his sister Parvati to Shiva (from left, Vishnu, Meenakshi, Shiva)

This photo was taken @ Madurai Meenakshi amman temple on april 2009. The memory behind this photo automatically flashes a smile on my face. :)) I actually planned to go to madurai for the kumbabhishegam but was able to go only the next day. For 3 days we roamed around Madurai & karaikudi and only on the 4th day we went to this temple. It was a longggggggggg queue and we had to stand in the queue for more than 2 hours just to reach the entrance of the temple :( But I enjoyed the long wait as Raam was explaining about the history and the specialities of the temple and madurai. After we had the dharshan of meenakshi and lord shiva we went around the temple. When we came across this pillar, raam told me to take a snap of this sculpture. I immediately took out my digicam and took the snap. Then only I realised that I forgot to switch off flash. He immediately asked me to put my camera in bag and he also did the same for his SLR camera. We moved away from that place and started looking somewhere else (as we dint have the camera ticket, Raam was so scared that they would seize away his SLR camera :D). A lady constable came, looked around and went back after sometime. After she moved from that place we went back to that place and took this snap in flash off mode.

Same photo in coloured mode (Thanks to Wikipedia)

Warning : This is going to be a long post :)

Oct 15 - After a break of three and a half months, I am back to work in a new company. The work environment and my project seems to be extremely impressive. I am so happy for getting this opportunity. Regarding team mates, it takes sometime for me to mingle with them.So lets wait and see how it goes.

Oct 19 - First time in the history of Gils's biography he came first for the meet and waited for others to come. In the mail, I clearly mentioned that the meet was @ 11.30 and on that particular day when I gave him a wake up call (To confirm that he would come for the meet) he asked about meet timings. Suddenly, the little devil inside me came to action and told him that meet is at 11 AM. To all our surprise he came at 11.15 AM and waited for us :))) There were lots of comedies during the meet and the best one was when the server brought the bill, we told him "Sorry boss. We dint ask for this. You can take it back" :P (As we completed even deserts before kanagu came, looks like the waiter decided himself that we finished or lunch and brought the bill. We told him that we are waiting for another person. Unless he arrives and completes his lunch, we will not leave the place :P). Later, when I asked gils to show me the bill.(to check if the dishes were correct) But he mistook that I was planning to pay the bill :P and said no no i'll pay the bill. But unfortunately, his dubakoor card dint work there and I had to pay the bill. I told him ok let this be my treat for my new job. He refused to accept and said "This is my treat only but u paid the bill". (Meaning, I will not even get the reimbursement. Enna kodumai sir idhu :( ) After the meet, I went for Aadhavan movie with another friend of mine and sighted Surya happily in the big Screen :)))) Since Aaarti & Rat could not come for the meet we thought of having another meet in the evening. Since Gils came early for the first meet, I suspected his punctuality for the evening meet. And this time he dint come late. Instead, he cancelled the meet itself :(

Oct 21 - Had a blasting time at my friend's marriage. Initially I was reluctant to go for the marriage. Later another friend called and said we will go for the marriage. I never thought I would meet a few more people whom I had seen almost 4 yrs back. It was nice to see them all and everyone were proud to say that they have joined the father's club. We also shared updates about few common friends who dint come for the marriage :))) Overall, the evening was wonderful.

Oct 23 - Another blog friend Raam was returning back to singapore after his diwali vacation. So we decided to have a small meet at Jayanthi's house. Totally 5 of us were there, including the host & her husband. We all met at around 7.30PM and had a great time pulling each other's legs. When we got sweets and dry fruits for Jayanthi, her husband was pleading us to take it back stating that she is already putting lots of weight :P Jayanthi prepared dosai, onion chutney and sambar for the dinner which was extraordinarily delicious :P But as you know, we were not accept the fact initially. So when she started preparing dosais we started fighting who is going to be the testing rat and finally we forced raam to be the one :P Since raam was healthy after eating few dosais, we too joined. At around 9.30 we started back, did some small shopping @ Tambaram and bid him farewell @ airport.

Oct 25 - Today morning my friend came back from Qatar. She had decided to keep it as a surprise visit and dint inform her home about her arrival. So, we thought we will have a small meet @ Airport Sangeetha (What to do, when I think of a meet, it always ends up to be @ Restaurants only :P). 3 other friends joined us and we were at the airport for 2.5 hours. As usual the normal process of pulling each other's legs, sharing gifts, updating about each others etc etc.. went fine. Finally we drove her back to the bus stop and helped her to board a bus to go to her native.

Overall, days are moving as happy as ever :))