All of us at VISHRAM wish all of you a happy new year and a year of health, good tidings, joy and prosperity. 

Ramakrishnan.

Hello Family

Just a week more to 2013!! Though we say this each year, I somehow feel this year has flown real fast.

Here are a few pictures that I took of Netra and Trilok at Vidya akka's place last month

happy new year

here is wishing  all the best of everything in the New Year

Rukmini,  KN

Birthday

Wishing 

Sumant 

a very happy birthday.

Many hapy returns!

13th December

Greetings, wedding anniversary

Best wishes to Aishwarya and Koushik on their wedding anniversary, 7 December.  Many happy returns!

Concert, temple

Gayatri, we will miss your concert in Chennai as we return to CBE on 10 December.  Raju told me yesterday that he saw your concert listed in Periava's programme.

We went to the Ratnagireeswarar temple this evening.  A number of devotees seated, chanting Rudram and doing Rudra archana.  And an equal number of women seated, reading out some slokas.
Very inspiring.

It has been a dull day in Chennai today, with brief showers, now and then and cloudy weather the rest of the time.

Jayaramanl

O God! Accidentaa?! Praying for and wishing speedy recovery to all of them.

J Chittappa, how long will you be in Madras? We are coming there on 20th late night. I will be singing at Sakatapuram Periyava's camp (at Hemamalini kalyana Mandapam) on Sunday, dec 22nd.
Ramya will be dancing with her Guru Kripa Bhaskaran on Dec 31 at Bapalal auditorium, Tiruvanmiyur, and for Kartik Fine Arts on Jan 7.
Hope Vivek's leg problem gets cured by Siddhar Arul.
Hare Ram
Gayathri

very sad about the accident

Birthdays etc.

Let me join Ramakrishnan in greeting Vichu on his birthday.  I have been in Chennai since November 22 and have not been able to do much blogging.  Thus, some birthdays have gone unnoticed - those of Bhuvana, Vimala, Pavitra.

For those of the family who may not be aware of it, Rama, Sriram, Raji, Bhavani and Sudha had a providential escape some days ago when the car in which they were travelling to Tiruvannamali overturned near Jenjee and came to rest on its side.  Raji sufffered a broken cervical vertebra and has to take absolute rest for some time.  Bhavani broke her arm which was reset with a screw.  The others, by the grace of God,  got away with minor pain and discomfort.

We pray for the early and complete recovery of Raji.

Jayaraman

Saradam, I and others at Kovaipudur wish Vichu a happy birthday and many happy returns. I however doubt if he will see this and I have sent him a separate mail. I have been remis in not visiting the blog for quite some time. So let me wish Prashant a happy Birthday, better late than never. I think he is in Madras now.

Before Gayathri and group visit to Kovaipudur we had Sekar, Rajani and her mother. After Gayathri's visit we had P.R.Kumar and Mala. Next monrh Ravi plans to come to Coimbatore with Srilakshmi and her mother and make a trip to Pudukode and he has asked us to join him.

The pain in Vivek's left leg is worrying. (he had a minor surgery in the right leg in August). Now even the MRI shows nothing wrong but he says the pain comes intermittantly and is sometimes severe. The doctor (Dr.Vinod) said this may take some six weeks to cure and has prescribed exercises only. 

It's been a whirlwind two weeks - after Ramya and Netra arrived, we've spent a lot of time at Rajiv's house. Ore ragalai daan, with both the babies.
Then the CBE trip, then Mardras. Unfortunately Netra fell terribly sick there and has recovered only in the past two days. Her nappy rash is still not completely cleared, so we've been doing a LOTTT of hand washing. With the baby screaming her head off all the time, paavam, all of us, especially Ramya vaadi poyittaa. Rajiv & Nameeta were very supportive, both physically and emotionally.

I went to Kutch with Anuj's parents and a few more family members. Ramya and Netra's got cancelled, of course. So after a very looooong time, I have been able to sit at the comp to check mail :)
Now back to routine - and get set for my father-in-law's shraddham on Wednesday.

Hare Ram
Gayathri

Happy birthday Prashanth.

Many happy returns!

21 November

Looong time

I can't believe I did not visit our blog ever since Navrathri!! I normally used to be able to check our blog during breaks at work. But of late, getting a break has become very tough as work is very hectic the last few months.
We got a chance to meet Netra and Trilok during their Chennai vijayam last week. They are both soooo adorable. We had a great time with casual chat.

Greetings, birthday

Birthday greetings to Karthik on his birthday, 13 November.

Many happy returns!

Vimala and Jayaraman

Greetings, Wedding anniversary

Best wishes to Ramu and Sarada on their wedding anniversary.

Many happy returns!

Vimala and Jayaraman

10 November 2013

Vimala and I were also there and had a nice time, thought rather short.

Jayaraman

Today we had visitors from Kovaipudur and their guests, i.e., Chandru, Mythili, Sekhar, Rajani, Rajani's mother-in-law Mrs.Rajam, Ramesh, Ujwala, KN and Rukku. We had a lively one hour.. I took some photoes which I will send to you later.

Gmail

I guess you are e referring to gmail.  Next time you get thru to gmail, you can add it to your bookmarks, so that all you need to do is click on he bookmark which will take yu straight to gmail.  You can even add it to your favurites so that its icon will show up on the screen whenever you access the server.
Jayaraman

I am finding it very difficult to open my google inbox. I get all sorts of things and when I am about to give up I click somewhere and the sign in comes. Do you have this problem.

Happy wedding anniversary to Anu and Rajan and many happy returns.

-Saradam and Ramakrishnan.

Greetings

Greetings, Anu and Rajan, on your wedding anniversary.  Many happy returns!

Vimala and Jayaraman

Saradam and I wish all of you who see this blog a very happy Deepavali followed by a year of  prosperity, good health and happiness.

Birthday greetings

Greetings, Kiran, on your birthday on 30 October.  Many happy returns!

Vimala and Jayaraman

Ramya coming soon in person (with Netra) to thank you, Chitti and Chittappa :):)

They are arriving tomorrow morning and will go to Rajiv's house. Excited :)

Hare Ram
Gayathri

Birthday greetings

Happy birthday Ramya

Many happy returns!

Vimala and Jayaraman

27 October

Birthday greetings

Best wishes to Rajan on his birthday, 26 October.  Many happy returns!

Birthday, wedding anniversary

Best wishes to Charu Prasad on her birthday, 24 October.  Many happy returns!

Two more dates went un-noted: the wedding anniversaries of Raji/Sriram and Akila/Mohan on the 18th October.  Apologies and belated good wishes to them.  I am sure they had a great day.  May happy returns!

Jayaraman

Thanks on behalf of S for the B'day wishes.
We were at Sakatapuram - a close friend had organised Chandi Homam and Ati Rudram - and it was a lovely four days there. And especially fulfilling to have Periyava's blessings on S's bday.
Hare Ram
Gayathri

Birthday greetings

Belated birthday greetings to Skanda (18th) and Sundaresan (19th October).  Many happy returns!

The last two days have passed without any time to sit at the computer - on the 18th, a half day visit to the passport office with Chandru and yesterday to Ottapalam with KN, Rukku and Chandru.  Rukku stayed back for a two-week ayurvedic treatment.

Jayaraman

Happy Dusserah

Belated birthday wishes from all of us Perippa.

Also wishing everybody a very happy Dusserah. There was no golu at our place this year,as I have been shuttling between 2 places. So, missed all the frenzy, inviting, arranging, baking/cooking etc. Though we did have fun visiting people as always.
I am almost at the end of my porandhaathu stint and have to return to our own abode this weekend.

Happy birthday J Thatha / Appa !!!

14. 10. 2013

Many happy returns of the day,

Priya, Shankar, Shruti, Prashanth

za

Birthday greetings

12 October

Greeting Lux on her birthday

Many happy returns!

Vimala and Jayaraman

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Many many happy returns to Jayaraman on his birthday,  October 14.

Rukku & KN

11 October

Birthday greetings to Neeraja

Many happy returns!

Vimala and Jayaraman

Birthday greetings

10 October

Happy birthday, Afreen, Vishak!

Birthday greetings

Happy birthday, Lalita.

Many happy returns!

Vimala and Jayaraman

Birthday greetings

Birthday greetings to Mohan.

Mny happy returns!

Birthdays

      Belated birthday greetings to Anupama.  I sent her an e-mail yesterday and got a nice reply.

      It is great that Ramakrishnan had such a nice birthday.  Gayahtri's post and the photo are very good.

      September and October have so many birthdays of the Family.  In our younger years, it was customary for a vadhyar to come home and do the ayushya homam.  And there was of course payasam with the sappadu.

Jayaraman

Thank you to all of you who havve posted here or otherwise wished me a happy birthday. You would have seen gayathri's posting and pictures.

My belated wish to Chandru, Kumar and Sekhar for a happy birthday and many happy returns.

We are enjoying our holiday with Gayathri in Bombay and the holiday is coming to a close in ten days and then, back to the grind.

PCR Bday

Quite unplann-edly appa's birthday got to be a lovely celebration! Nameeta and baby Trilok came here on Friday night itself. Nameeta had specially baked a cake (eggless - it being Mahalaya paksham and all that) :), and I had to secretly stow it away in the kuttiest of kutti fridges there can be.
I had made gulab jamuns.
Mythili-Ramani Athimber-Niru and Shubraja came by 4pm. Rajiv called to say his recording would take till 8pm, so we had to go ahead with the cake cutting without him. So, we sang 'Happy Birthday' while appa cut the cake - probably the first time he celebrated this way? :):)
For uppu-karam I had made upma kozhakattai and chutni. Niru was happily clicking away - she has posted some pictures on fb, I will try to download and post some here.

We all remembered Kumar and Sekhar who must have been celebrating elsewhere :) And also Seshu mama's twin grand children Shraddha and Hriday.

But surely the icing on the cake was having Trilok here :):)

Hare Ram
Gayathri

Birthday greetings

Greetings to Ramakrishnan, Kumar and Sekar on their birthday today.

Many happy returns!

Birthday Greetings

             Best wishes to Raju and Varsha on their birthday today.  Many happy returns!

Greetings, Birthday

     It is Chandru's birthday today. He has completed 85.  Spoke to him in Singapore: he was going out to lunch, possibly for his birthday.

    Here's wishing  him a great birthday and many more happy birthdays to come.

Jayaraman

Hello

I just realized that it's been a while since I last posted here. Thank you for your wishes perippa (for appa's birthday). I will convey to him.

M has gone to Germany on a short trip, so V and I have piled on amma and appa :) We celebrated Vinayaga chathurthi there, when I realized that I am officially celebrating a festival at porandhaagam after 11 years!!! Though we always drop in for a few minutes on festivals during the evening, we never celebrated any festival there. So, it was good for a change. 

Wishing Chandru a happy birthday and many more with good health and cheer.

Birthdays

     Let me join Ramakrishnan in greeting Anu on her birthday today.  I guess she does  not see this blog, so I have mailed to her Ramakrishnan's post.  Vimala rang her up tis morning to wish her a happy birthday.  

  Forgot to call Ramu on his birthday.  He is not able to visit  the blog these days, thanks to the pressures of work.

Jayaraman

Dear Anu,

Wish you a happy birthdayand many happy returns.

Vivek's surgery was done on31st August and he had two subsequent check ups. His stitch has been removed and he says he has no pain now. He has been going to school since 11th Sep and he ishaving his term exams.

Saradam and I are in Bombay with Gayathri enjoying the break.

-Ramakrishnan.

Hi all! I think it's been a while since I checked / wrote on our blog!

Appa and Saradamma arrived here last Friday. The next four days we enjoyed Bharat's son akshay's wedding. The day after that was my programme at Chembur Fine Arts, singing for a Bharatanrityam event. The organisers had wanted a two hour show - we wisely prepared 100 min of dance. Then the pgm itself started late, there was a lot of speechifying since it was an inaugural show. Finally we had to cut three items to finish by 9.30pm!

Well, thankfully my singing was appreciated - proof - Chembur fine Arts VP asked me to present a music pgm after hearing me that day! I have to send them a mail  - hope it materialises :)

Today appa and Saradamma have gone to Niru's house where Mythili and Ramani Athimber have come too. They'll stay there for two days and be back on Tuesday.

Trust all members of PSC family are doing well :)

Hare Ram
Gayathri

Greetings, Lalitha

Today is Lalitha/PGS's wedding anniversary.  Best wishes to them.

I tried to call Laitha a little while back.  No answer.  She and PGS have been extremely busy with preparations for moving house - to their  flat in Dwarka.

Greetings

Our telephone and Internet had been out of service for over two weeks and came back to life only a couple of days ago.  Hence the gap in my posts.

The September list of celebrities is now up on the blog.  The family wishes all of them all the very best and many happy returns.

Greetings, birthday

Greeting KN on his birthday, 24 August.

Many happy  returns!

Jayaraman and Vimala

Greeings

WEDDING ANNIVERSRIES

19 August : Kumar, Mala

20 August: Arvind, Anu

Many happy returns!

Sri Baug

Thambi  some times spoke about Sri Baug.  It seems it had (has?) as many as seven doorways, with different names.  Ramakrishnan and I once visited Sri Baug, thanks to  Bobjee, who knew some of the  new owners.

Imagine having to live in such a house today, with all the attendant problems of finding servants, security, water, power etc. etc.  But I guess if you lived in such a house you would have enough money to find people to do all the work for you!

Jayaraman

Great idea..

Gayathri akka, that is such a great idea indeed to be able to tour the building. Sigh, what a privilege it would be to own such a house again!!

Greetings, Birthday

15 August

Happy birthday, Vivek

Many happy returns!

Greetings, Birthday

Vidya Ramesh celebrates her birthday today, 14th August.  Happy birthday Vidya!

Sri Baug

Bhavana (Thambi Papa's daughter) had given the link to the Sri Baug article on FB and now a lovely conversation is going on - Kalpana (Padmini athai's daughter said athai remembers anecdotes told by Peria Thatha; I have asked appa to put his reminiscences together. Hope other elders also will have some thoughts.
In fact Bhavana is trying to plan a visit to the building - a group visit with as many of us that can come together. Wonder where we should go for permission?

Hare Ram
Gayathri

Greetings

Birthday, 13 August

Jayashankar, Arjuna

All the best. Many happy returns!

Greetings, Birthday

Best wishes to Anand on his birthday, 10th August.

Many happy returns!

Did you know

..That the idea of AndhraPradesh formed in SriBagh?? Am sure most of us would have read it in the Hindu today, here's the link anyway

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/idea-of-andhra-was-born-in-mylapore/article4974866.ece?homepage=true

Wanted to share this with everybody :)

Thanks to Facebook, for every post of yours, Perippa, I was looking for a "Like" button, haha

CONGRATS PRASHANT!

And Congrats to Jayashankar and Priya! A significant milestone!

Shruti looks all grown up - sweet 16! All wishes to her!

Gayathri and Sundaresan 

Proud parents with the new graduate!

At NTU 29th July, convocation ceremony

Prashanth the graduate engineer!

Convocation ceremony at NTU Singapore 29th July

Humour

Scan surpise!

Happy B'day

A very happy birthday Shruthi. Wow, sweet 16!! Have a great year :)

Happy Birthday Shruti!

Dear Shruti - happy 16th birthday!

(You are 16, going on 17 etc...)

Lots of love,

Appa, Amma, Prashanth, Jaya Patti, Vimala Patti & J Thatha

Birthday greetings

Birthday greetings

Raji Sriram

Many happy returns

18 July

Best wishes

Happy birthday/anniversary to Rajani manni and Sundar anna-Charu manni.

V's tests for the academic year (4th std) begin on the 17th and they last for over a month!! They finish only on 20th August!!! And just a few days from then, probably a week later, the 2nd cycle tests start. Huh!! So, that means that we are bound to our homes for the rest of the year. Not that I am a paatti or something, but these days why do parents have to literally study all over again with the kids? I don't ever remember amma or appa sit with us and help us with studies. Neither did we attend tutions, atleast not till we were in 11th or so. So, how did we all study? What has changed now? And V's only in 4th now. What would happen as she goes to higher classes? SHUDDER

Birthday greetings

Birthday greetings to Rajani and Koushik

Many happy returns!

15 July

Greetings

Wedding anniversary

Sundar, Charu

13 July

Best wishes

Birthday greetings

Birthday

Sowmya

7 July

Many happy returns!

Wishes and some fun

A very happy birthday to Aditya and Ramesh anna.

Here's a very funny snippet from the TV series Mind your language, which is being telecast on comedy central now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H_jPI1MLrs

Absolutely hilarious. Have fun

Birthday greetings

Birthday greetings 

Ramesh (Jayaraman)

Many happy returns!
3 July

Birthday greetings

Birthday

Aditya, 1 July

Best wishes

Hari anna's 50th Bday

Wishing Hari anna a very happy birthday. We all had a get together to celebrate this occasion at Mahamudra yesterday and had a great time.
Here is a link to the pictures

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151685941389469.1073741826.834159468&type=1&l=9158a48821

I am not sure if this link would work, do let me know if it does not. Many of the pictures we clicked by V

Greetings, Birthday

Family PSC greets Hari on his 50th birthday, 

28 June.  Happy birthday, Hari!

Greetings, Birthday

Birthday

Aparna, 26 June

Many happy returns!

Greetings

Greeting Lux, NG, Mani and Bhuvana on their wedding anniversary on 22 June.  This post is somewhat late  but better late than never!
Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

Greetings, Birthday

Birthdays

Padma Sridar: 22 June

Malvika: 23 June

All the best. Many happy returns!

Vimala and Jayaraman

Congrats Prashant! All the Best in your new job. Wish you great success!
Hare Ram
Gayathri

Best wishes

We wish Prashanth all the best in his first job. We are sure he will do well, as he has, always.

Also congratulations to him ahead of his graduation on July 29.

Rukku and KN

Congratulations

Congratulations Prashanth on your new job. Singapore is a great place to be, that too with Anu akka and all there. All the best for a brilliant future.

A very happy anniversary to Kumar anna and Kristin

Dear all - I have been offered a position in a Graduate Programme with Trafigura. They are a large oil & commodities trader headquartered in Switzerland. I will be based out of Singapore. Thank you all for your support and prayers over the last year.

Prashanth

Greetings, Wedding Anniversary

Best wishes to Kumar and Kristin on their wedding anniversary today.  Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

Thank you

Thank you very much for your wishes Perippa. V and I spent the day with amma and appa as M went for an office get-together.

The vacations are over and school has started. V has started class IV now!!

It was Saradamma's 70th birthday yesterday. Praying for good health and happy long life for her specially, and each and every one of our large PSC family.

Hare Ram
Gayathri

Birthday

Three birthdays today.
Saradam has turned 70. An important birthday.
Akila is 37.
Siddharth 's birthday as well.
Best wishes from the family to all the birthday people. Many happy returns.

Humour

      A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the bottle.  During her struggle, the phone rang and she asked her four year-old daughter to answer it.  The child told the caller: "Mummy can't come to the phone to talk to you now. She is hitting the bottle ...."

Greetings, Wedding anniversary

Wedding anniversaries

2 June: Sekar, Rajani

3 June: Anand, Neeraja; Ramesh, Ujwala

Many happy returns!

Many happy returns to Divya (Wedding Anniversary, oh1 one year has gone),  and Sundar and Aishwarya (Birthday).

Many thanks for the wishes

Thanks, Ramakrishna peripa and Jayaram peripa, for your wishes. Namaskarams.

Greetings, Birthday

Best wishes to Aishwarya on her birthday, 31 May.  Many happy returns!

Many happy returns to Divya (Wedding Anniversary, oh one year has gone !) and to Sundar and Aishwarya (Birthday).

Right now the net is extremely slow for me. It is a pain to use the computer when you have got to wait and wait.

THE ANGR;    ; 
 

End of vacations

Well, we are almost at the end of the vacations, with just another week to go before school starts. We did not step out of Chennai these holidays. Just decided to stay back and visit the not-so-frequently-visited or the newest-in-town places. So, a trip to the beach and 2 newest malls, was the most of it. Of course, the initial part was the best with Koushik and Aishwarya being here.

I tried to have "extended" weekends by working from home all Fridays. If not anything else, atleast I am at home!! V and I made the most of the mango season this year, apart from having it directly as a fruit. We tried our hands at making a few desserts with mango.

Appa has been away for almost a week, going around Tuticorin, Tirunelveli etc. That's how we spent our vacations :)

Greetings, Birthday

Greeting Sundar on his birthday today, 29 May.

Many happy returns!

Greetings

Wedding anniversary: Divya

27 May

Best wishes, many happy returns!

Horse menace

Wow peripa...quite an experience you've had! 

Thoughts of God arise only in anticipation of events, when one prays and commits all sorts of things to God eg breaking coconuts, visiting temples etc. oftentimes these promises are forgotten after the event.

When one is in the midst of an event, thoughts of God, or indeed anything at all...are rare. The natural response in such situations is Fight or Flight. Without realising it, you have chosen to fight, by freezing! Good for you. Now that it's all over, you have a tale to tell your great grand children.

Love, Jayashankar

Appa's mail reads like horror story! Whether he called to Guruvayurappan or not, thank God He made the horse stop and change tracks!

I have been having a spell of cold and cough after my return from Sakatapuram - and on top of this, I will be singing for Bhakta Sakha Vitthala's 25th performance this evening at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan! After a gap of ten years, commuting in Bombay for the rehearsals, especially in this weather really tires me out :(

S & I are leaving for Madras tomorrow to attend the tenth day rites for Delhi Raghavan Athimber (Tiruppugazh Guruji) who passed away last Friday.

Rajiv and Nameeta with Trilok spent last weekend with us here in Mulund. And now, we get to see both the babies on Facetime :)

Hare Ram

Gayathri

Horse menace

I had a most frightening experience this morning of a horse charging me.

It is usual to see stray horses in Kovaipudur. A group of three horses
have been roaming here for a few days. This morning I was as usual
walking in the maidan opposite my house and the three horses came in
from the road. One of them was possibly in a playful mood and it
started running about wildly; it would run for a short distance and
return to the other two. There were no walkers near  me at that time.
Suddenly the running horse was stopping and turned its head and kept
staring at me. I was about 400 feet from it and I also stopped
wondering what was going to happen, because earlier it had run along
without going near the walkers. Suddenly it started running wildly to
wards me, its mane and tail up. There was no point in my running or
moving left or right as I was an open target. The horse kept rushing
to wards me and when it was about 15 feet from me it suddenly changed
course and went behind me. I could not move for a few seconds, I could
hear my heart thudding and my stomach churning like a washing machine.
Slowly I gathered myself and started walking, looking back frequently
to make sure it was not coming at me again. It is now 3 PM and my
stomach his still not come back to normal.

When the horse was staring at me and started charging, if I had been a
person with Bhakthi, I should have thought of God and started saying
something like Guruvayurappa but I did  nothing. So much for my
bhakthi.

In Kovaipudur, normally a group of three horses (it is always three)
would appear and keep roaming about;  one day it will become two, then
one and then it will also disappear. After some time, another three
will appear. I wonder what is going on but may be some body buys three
horses at a time and one by one it is converted into meat.

Two years ago there was news item in the Hindu that in Vadavalli this
menace is there and two old men were killed by horse attack and bite. I
then sent a 'letters to the editor' to the Hindu together with photoes
of the three horses scanning a garbage can here by email but the
letter was not published.

This time, I am going to take up the matter with the local Councillor
through the Welfare Association of which I am a life member.

-Ramakrishnan.

(The above is the text of an e-mail sent by Ramakrishnan.)

      Thank God!

Jayaraman
--

Greetings, birthday

            Following Ramakrishnan, we add our best wishes to Uma on her birthday today and to Jayanth on his birthday tomorrow.  Many happy returns!

Vimala and Jayaraman

wishing a happy birthday and many happy returns to uma (20th) and Jayanth (21st).

Greetings, Birthday

Belated birthday greetings to Ram, whose birthday
was yesterday, 14th May.  Vimala and I spoke to him, however.  In fact, he called  to thank us,  in pureTamil, for the birthday greetings mail we had sent him!

Many Happy Returns to  Jayashankar and Priya on their 23rd wedding anniversary. Yesterday they had come to my house and I did not remember but I remember his wedding at the Raja Kalyana Mandapam in Luz. All the best for a happy, healthy long prosperous life.

Either my computer is slow or the net is slow but I type something and it appears on the screen a minute later.

Greetings

23rd Wedding Anniversary 

13.5.2013

Best Wishes,

Amma, Appa, Shruti, Prashanth

Greetings, Wedding Anniversary

Best wishes to Raju and Padma manni on their wedding anniversary!

Many happy returns,

Vimala and Jayaraman

11.5.2013

CONGRATS Kumar!!!!!!!!!

Am leaving for Sakatapuram today for Akshaya Tritya puja. Away for a week.

Hare Ram
Gayathri

Greeting, Birthday

Happy birthday, Prasad.  Many happy returns!

10 May 2013

Conversation with V

Last Friday we had gone (well, rushed actually) to coffee day from the beach, because V needed to go to the toilet and it was URGENT.

A much relieved V came out and was kind of scared. Here was the conversation:

V: You know what happened, I went in and locked myself. When I tried to open the door it would not open. I got very scared.

Me: Achacho, then what happened (actually said "appram enna achu")?

V: Appram enna, am here now. Obviously I managed to open the door and came out!!!

Huh, so much for listening with interest.

Greetings, birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MYTHILI. MANY HAPPY RETURNS!

8 MAY 2013

Happy Anniversary

Dear Perippa/Perimma,

Wishing you a very happy anniversary and many more happier ones :)

I found this link today while browsing, thought would share

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/7-accidents-that-resulted-in-delicious-foods/slideshow/19852908.cms

Best wishes to Patti - Thatha / Amma - Appa on their 56th wedding anniversary!
 
Lots of love,
 
Shruti, Prashanth, Priya, Jayashankar
 
5th May 2013

Happy birthday

Wow, Cheenu athimber is now 80 as well!! Namaskarams to you athimber.

Just a little over a week of the summer vacation has gone by. I had taken off from work this week to be with V. Went to the Eliot's beach today and took appa and amma as well. I don't know how many years it has been since they both visited the beach. We had a good time. Missed Jayaram perippa and perimma, and spoke of you a lot today while we were there.
I am already in my "Monday" morning blues thinking of work next week!! Why is it not so easy to live in the "Now"..

Happy birthday

NG will turn 80 on the 29th April 2013.  Happy birthday, Cheenu and welcome to the octogenarians' club!

Greetings

Happy birthday, Divya!

30 April

Hello

Wishing Mythili athai and athimber a very happy anniversary.

Thank you Perippa for posting the wedding pictures.

V's holidays officially started from the Monday after about a week's session in standard 4. School then re-opens again on 6th June. She wanted to try her hand at needle work, so bought her the simplest of anchor long stitch kits. Let's see how long her interest holds :)

Greetings

Best wishes to Mythili and Chandru on their wedding anniversary, 18th April.

Belated greetings also to Ramesh (Vidya) on his birthday, 13th April and to Ketan on his birthday (15th April).

Vimala and Jayaraman

(Do not miss the wedding photos, links given in the preceding post.)

Photos - Pavitra's wedding

Here are two links to some lovely pictures taken at Pavitra's wedding by Anil Bakshi, close boyhood friend of Kumar and Sekar.  Hope you get, from these pics, some idea of the great fun that everyone at the wedding had!  (N.B. The photographs are copyrighted.)




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https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=abakshi.edu&target=ALBUM&id=5867497178315558225&authkey=Gv1sRgCN6B5p_C-peUlQE&feat=email

Jayaraman

Puthaandu Vaazhthukkal

Our Iniya Puthaandu Nal Vaazhthukkal/Namaskarams to everybody.

Also wishing Pavithra and Adithya a very happy married life. I was going to attend the wedding, but could not due to an important client visit at work at this same time. I heard the wedding was great fun from appa, who is enjoying himself there, and rubbing it all in!!!

Pavitra, Wedding

     I join Ramakrishnan in wishing every one a happy Vijaya varusham.  As I type this just after 10.00 a.m. on  15th April 2013, A happy event would have just taken place in the family.  Pavitra and Aditya would have tied the knot in Mathura.  All of us in the family congratulate them and pray to God to bless them with a very happy married life.

Jayaraman

NEW YEAR

WE ARE  ENTERING A NEW YEAR "VIJAYA" and I wish all of you who see this and, why not, also those of us who don't, a happy new year. May the year be full of joy, good health and good news.

Greetings and best wishes to Narayanan and Rukku on their wedding anniversary today.

Greetings

Best wishes to Rukku and KN who celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary today.

VAMANAN

Gayathri,

What a terrible news. I am unable to digest it. Such a soft spoken person and devoted to music in its purest form. To think that his old parents are left behind to mourn him. So sad, also  the death of his young student the same day in an accident. I listen to his tapes (I have two) often.

Vamanan

         Gayathri, I share your sadness at the passing of Vamanan, and that at a young age AND leaving behind aged parents with health problems.  And to know that a friend of yours has also succumbed to an accident.

         I heard one live concert of Vamanan's  (thanks to Gayathri) and liked it immensely.  He was a musician who did not get his due in the line of recognition but will stay in our memory as a vocalist full of classical values.

I got the saddest news this morning -my Guru Vamanan passed away of kidney failure Wednesday morning. I can't bear to think his music will not be heard any more. He would have been 50 this August. His parents aged 90+ are still alive, with multiple health problems.
On top of this comes the news that one of his most promising students Tejasvi died in an accident the same afternoon. 

Devastated.
Hare Ram
Gayathri

Jayaram chittappa is justified - but we do not want to lose this link either. So as you say chittappa, we can watch how it goes without your regular updates and greetings. Of course we know we are ever present in your thoughts :) 
The same has happened in our TMS family group mail too - the same handful of people post or respond to posts. Most are silent watchers. 
With such a wonderful tool for us to keep close to family, we are not making use of it :(

Hare Ram
Gayathri

I agree with Jayaraman that, considering the size of the PSC family, the participating members is abysmal, just a handful. Whether the others are at least seeing the posts once in a while is not known. All the same, I feel sad that I am going to lose an easy reference to monthly celebrities and also the posts of those who do come in. I am myself somewhat of a defaulter because somehow the day passes off before I finish some work I take upon myself. I will definitely miss the blog.

The flagging blog

The blog is once again suffering from lack of participation.  I propose to take a break myself from posting lists of birthdays, birthday greetings etc. and shall only post some thing now and then when I feel like doing so.  Let us see how things progress and keep our options open.

Greetings

Best wishes to Sudha on her  birthday, 24th March.  Many happy returns!

Thank you, and thank you again, Jayaram chittappa. 

That video - the song is Papa athai's. I used to make Lux athai repeat all our family stories again and again every time she came from Bhilai. So now Ramya wanted me to sing this song - slowly first,then in anger when Netra did not calm down. But I was laughing so much, that this is what came out :):) 
Hare Ram
Gayathri

Hello

Thank you Perippa for posting the picturs and videos of the new family members.

Netra beats Gayathri akka in her vocal skills haha

Happy birthday, Mala!

21 March

Welcome Trilok!  Best wishes to the new arrival and to parents Nameeta and Rajiv from the family!

Gayathri lulling Netra. (Video courtesy: Ramya)

Humour

Greetings, Birthday

Happy birthday, Rajiv.

Many happy returns!

8 March

Thanks once again Chittappa. Trilok arrived a full 2 weeks early! Rajiv has sent some pictures which are stored in Ramya-Anuj's iphones. I will have to snatch them to upload here. Netra arrived  a day before my birthday, and Trilok has arrived a day before Rajiv's. Also, he was born under Puradam nakshatram which is Ramya's too :)
Hare Ram
Gayathri

Greetings, Trilok

Welcoming Trilok, son of Nameeta and Rajiv, who arrived in the early hours of today.  Family PSC extends its greetings and best wishes to the baby.  Congratulations to the parents and grandparents!

Happy birthday

A very happy birthday to Ashok anna, Kumar anna and Srilakshmi manni from all of us here.

Happy birthday, Srilakshmi

Many happy returns!

5th March

Birthday

Happy birthday, Kumar.

Many happy returns!

4 March

Birthday greetings to 

Ashok

3 March

Many happy returns!

I have not been looking into the computer for some time, for some reason or other. I see I am late for all the WAs and Birthdays in February and I can only convey my greetings and best wishes now, better late than never. Saradam is having a bad low-back-pain which extends to the left thigh and uses a waist best. She is having traction now and we are praying that she should be okay in a couple of days. Today I had my three-monthly review by my cardiologist Dr.Vaidyanathan. Everything is okay and I continue the same medicines. I feel that my energy level has come down a little,but that is only to be expected because, after all, I am now a great-grand-father. With the present tendency of boys and girls to marry late, I think this achievement will be rare in the next generation.

 

Netra

Thank you Chittappa. Netra's birth date can be added to the Feb list :)
We are slowly and steadily settling down to the new rhythm at home - completely choreographed and directed by the littlest one!
Hare Ram
Gayathri