Happy birthday!

Best wishes to Ramakrishnan, Kumar and Sekar on their birthday, 28th September. Many happy returns!

Birthday wishes also to Varsha, whose birthday it was yesterday, 27th September. Hope she had a great day!

Vimala and Jayaraman

Greetings

Today it is the birthday of Raju. Our best wishes to him. Hope he has a great day. Many happy returns!

Jayaraman

Greetings and so on

It was Anu's birthday on 19 Sepetember and Chandru's on 25 September. Here is wishing them a happy birthday and many happy returns.

Vimala and I have completed half of our sojourn in Sri Lanka. Having a good time. We went to Bentota and Galle and came back this afternoon. Greeat scenery, less and more disciplined traffic, practically no honking.

I do not have a computer here and use an I-Pad, so it is somewhat tough making posts in the blog. And, of course, no photo is possible till I return to Coimbatore.

Best wishes to all.

Jayaraman

Thanks Ramu for your greetings and best wishes on my birthday. We reached Singapore on the 18th in time to celebrate Anu's birthday on the 19th. We were staying with Anu till friday evening. We came to Hari's place then and will be here till the next week.
chandru

From Ramu

Best wishes to Chandru athimbare on his birthday 25 Sep. Many happy returns of the day.His birthday should be a nice one with Anu and Rajan.
Ramu Sarada

From Ramu

1. Jayaramanna & manni must have reached Colombo. Wishing them a very happy stay there.Best wishes to Ramesh & Ujwala.
2. Sincerely praying for a painless surgery for Ram. I am sure this time it will be smooth and Ram will not have much pain and recover fast.
Ramu

From Ramu

Best wishes to Anu on her birthday. Very many happy returns to her. This year`s birthday gift to her is the presence of PSR & Mythily in Singapore.
While saying this, I remember the excellent time we had in Singapore when Mohan Akila were there. Anu used to see us almost daily and she took us out in her Lexus. Nice time it was.
Ramu

From Ramu

Have a nice trip, Jayaramanna. Convey our best wishes to Ramesh & Ujwala.
Ramu

Rajini's speech

Off to Colombo

Vimala and I will be away in Colombo, visiting Ramesh and Ujwala, from 19 September to 3 OctobeSo I shall most probably be off the blog for the duration. My mobile phone will not be functioning in Sri Lanka. I can be contacted at Ramesh's residence: +94112506612.

Cheerio.

Jayaraman

Update from Kovaipudur

Best Wishes to Anu and Ramu for their Birthday.

Due to the demise of Charu's Kannan Anna, Vinayaka Chathurthi was subdued here though Saradam did make Modhakams and Vadai. Charu has left for Bombay yesterday and will be back on Saturday.

Vivek is going to have a nasal spray by a doctor in his school as a preventive of Swine Flu (approved by our family doctor here), at a concessional charge of Rs.200.

From Ramu

1. After M.Vaishnavi, it is Akila`s turn now to fall sick. She is having fever with body pain from yesterday.
2. I am sorry to know the sad demise of Charu`s Kannan anna.
3. The traffic in Mumbai must be really a nightmare to commute. I can not imagine how people drive two wheelers these days. I use my scooter only around the four roads around our flat. Driving even there needs skill now, with all four roads dug up and with full of slush.
Ramu

Pillaiyar Chaturthi

I don't know who sang the song - it is funny & interesting, and the singing is good with clarity. I will ask Vasanthi where she got the fwd from.

Rajiv, Nameeta & I went to Pune early yesterday for Ganesha Chaturthi. Rajiv performed the puja with Nameeta's thatha's instructions. We came back in the evening itself as Rajiv had to go for a recording this morning.
Performance anxiety has set in for the 16th pgm - more prayers for that!!

Yes, here too we have had some dispiriting news from many sides. Nameeta's mother is suffering pretty badly from sciatica. Undergoing some acupressure treatment. (Jay) Kanchana's mother came down with cold-cough-fever which developed into breathing difficulty. She has been in the ICU on ventilator for a week now, her left lung is badly infected, but all test results show negative. She is being given broad spectrum medicines, and has shown a slight improvement since yesterday, but still not completely out of danger.
Only one thing we can do with all sincerity - pray for their recovery.
On top of this came news of Charu's Kannan anna's demise. After class with Vamanan in Chembur this afternoon, I plan to go to Matunga to see Veni manni & Charu's mother and Subhashree.
Commuting in Bombay was always time consuming and tiring. it has become more of a nightmare now.

Hare Ram
Gayathri

Illness vaaram??

Am very glad to hear that Shankar anna is alright. All round I hear about elders and children falling sick. Now it's Vaishnavi's turn. She decided to fall sick yesterday. The temperature hit upto 103.2 just now. Have been sponging her to bring it down.
Our Ganesh Chaturthi this year was pretty subdued. Firstly, we officially do not have any festivals this year as M's perimma had passed away. And V's illness added to the spirit.

Jayashankar/Ganesh Chaturthi

Shankar recovered fairly quickly and the temperature came back to normal today. We are quite relieved. Priya has come and will go with Shankar to his apartment where she will stay for a week.

Thank you, Ramu, for your message. Hope everyone had a good festival today. Here at Brindavan, we got some modakams and appam this morning. Just now (4 to 6 p.m.) a musical feast is going on - a veena recital by Geetha Krishnamurthy.

Gayathri, sambandhi sappida mattaal is really funny. Who is the singer? Is it a traditional song sung at wedding lunches?

From Ramu

1. Ganesh Chathurthi best wishes. Special namaskarams to all elders on this occassion.
Ramu

From Ramu

1. I feel sad that Jayashankar had to be hospitalised with high fever. Hope he is recovering fast. Wish him speedy recovery.
2. Wishing PGS many happy returns of the day ( his birthday was 08th. I am late in wishing him).
Ramu

Wishes

Wishing a very happy anniversary to Papa athai and Lalitha athai. A very very happy birthday to Kumar anna and Shekhar anna.
I have been thinking a lot of Kumar anna lately. I read a book called "She's a jolly good fellow" by Sajitha Nair. This is about 2 girls who join the Indian army and how they are treated etc. The incidents are truly hilarious. But it set me thinking about Kumar anna and the military life.

Greetings

7th September was Srikkanth's birthday and 8th was PGS's. Greetings to them and we wish them many happy returns. I missed out on posting the greetings on time. Yesterday morning Vimala and I had to go to Jayashankar's home at short notice when we received information that Shankar had been hospitalised with high fever. Brought him home last evening. The fever continues, though at slightly lower temperatures. I am hoping that the antibiotic will take effect soon and the fever will come down by tomorrow. Priya is expected to arrive on Saturday morning.

Sakatapuram Swamigal

Thanks for the WA wishes.
And our wishes to Papa athai , Lalitha athai & athimbers.
I had special reason to remember Lalitha athai. On Sunday I went to Chembur and had darshan of Sakatapuram Swamigal. After the puja we went in a line to receive teertham. Seeing me he said "Lalitha daane?"!!!! This is the umpteenth time, hahha! I said I am her niece, & tried to say that he had come to our house in Madras last time - I don't think I succeeded in getting that across clearly :)
I am now fully in preparations for the pgm on 16th. Vamanan has so many things on his mind, we students are trying to do as much as we can to ease his tension.
Bombay rains makes itself felt even now, playing hide and seek. Pleasant weather, nice if you don't have to go out in the slush.
Rajiv is slowly recovering from his bout of cold, fever, but cough persists, paavam.
Had lunch with Meena perima on Monday. She is coming over with Leela akka & athimber for breakfast on Thursday.
That's news from here for now.
Hare Ram
Gayathri

Greetings

Wedding anniversary, 6th September - Papa/Ramani and Lalita/PGS

Congratulations and wish you many happy returns.

From Ramu

1. Best wishes to KTA - Papa & PGS - Lalitha on their wedding day on Sep. 09. Very many happy returns to them.
I do not remember much of Papa`s wedding.
For Lalitha`s wedding, I came from Faridabad with PCJ & Vimala manni The system of complete contract for marriage was not there at that time and so all of us were very busy arranging everything for the marriage. I was much interested in car driving then and was enjoying driving Thambi anna`s Herald for all marriage work. After the marriage and returning to Faridabad, it took a month for me to come out of the home sickness!
Ramu