Greetings

Birthday greetings to Vichu.  Many happy returns.


Vimala and Jayaraman

From Ramu

1. Best wishes to Vichu on his birthday. Many happy returns of the day.

Ramu

Happy B'day

A very very happy birthday to Vimala Perimma on her 70th birthday and to Pavithra.
Perippa, that's a great wish :)

From Ramu

1. Happy birthday, Pavithra. Many happy returns of the day.
2. JOKE:
Patient: Doctor, last week you said that mine is only a minor surgery. But, after admission now, you say it is a major surgery.
Doctor; Yes. There is a beutiful farm coming for sale now.
Ramu.

AAAAAWWWWWW!! BEAUTIFULLLL! Ippadi allavo irukkanum! Thanks for the heart-warming message Chittappa!

You might have seen ads in the papers about 5000 musicians getting together under Sri Sri RaviShankar's Art of Living on Jan 30, 2010 at Perungalathur, Chennai. A set of songs sung by Chinmaya Sisters is up at www.naadhavaibhavam.in. The participants have to practise these and show up for a rehearsal on Jan 29. I think this website is accessible to all.
Hare Ram
Gayathri

Greetings

Happy birthday Vimala! I love you even more as each year passes. 
Jayaraman

A SPECIAL HAP-HAP-HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO VIMALA CHITTI!

And Warm Wishes to AALLL the other birthday & Anniversary celebrators this month!

Gayathri

From Ramu

Best wishes to Vimala manni on her 70th birthday. We pray for her good health and peace in the days and years to come. Many happy returns of the day.
If men turn 60, there is "sashtiabdapoorthi" and 70, there is "bheemarathashanthi".
What are thete for women!!
Ramu

GREETINGS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND MANY HAPPY RETURNS TO VIMALA, PAVITHRA AND VICHU. THIS IS VIMALA'S 70TH BIRTHDAY AND SO A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO HER FOR MANY MORE YEARS OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS.

Wishes and updates

Belated birthday wishes to Prashanth and Bhuvana Perimma.

I think this is my first post since Diwali. Hope everybody had a great diwali, we definitely did :) I tried making a different sweet this time (apart from the usual suspect - Gulab Jamun). Made chocolate walnut burfi from one of Sanjeev Kapoor's books. The dish itself is not as fancy as its name though. Finally, it turned out to be layered theratti paal (phew after all that effort)!!. Chocolate flavoured theratti paal wedged in-between 2 layers of plain theratti paal, topped with chocolate!!! Well, anything chocolate definitely tastes good. So, yes it was real yumm.

Otherwise, just the normal routine with Vaishnavi falling sick every 3-4 weeks!!

From Ramu

A joke from Times of India:
Boy: Do you love me because my father left me a fortune?
Girl: No, stupid. I would love you no matter who left you the money.
Ramu.

From Ramu

Best wishes to Bhuvana manni on her birthday. Many happy returns of the day.
Ramu Sarada

Greetings

Birthday greetings, Bhuvana.
24 November

From Ramakrishnan

Many happy returns and best wishes to Prashant on his Birhday.

Greetings

Greetings to Prashanth on his birthday, 21 November.
Many happy returns!

From Ramu

Happy birthday,Prashanth.Wish you all the best and we pray for your grand success in your studies. Many happy returns of the day.
Ramu Sarada

From Ramu

1. Ramakrishnan, that song of Madurai Mani is a very good one. He used to sing it in most of his concerts. Now, I am not hearing that in any concert.
2. A joke from TOI:
Two friends were searching for their wives.
Friend 1: How does your wife look?
Friend 2 : Tall, fair, beautiful, and charming. What about your wife?
Friend 1 : Forget her. Let us look for yours.
Ramu

FROM RAMAKRISHNAN

The famous movie RamaRajya came in the 1940s and had a song by Latha "Bina Madhura Madhura Kachibo". Madurai Mani heard this and asked a friend-composer to write a song in the same tune and thus was born the popular song KANDAN KARUNAI PURIYUM VADIVEL in Bimplas. I read this in Amudha Surabhi magazine.

From Ramu

Joke from TOI:
Pam: What is the difference between stress, tension and panic?
Sam: Stress is when the wife is pregnant, tension is when the girlfriend is pregnant and panic is when both are pregnent.
Ramu

From Ramu

1. Joke from Times of India:
Lulu: I did not sleep whole night in the train.
Lilly: Why:
Lulu: I got upper birth.
Lilly: Why you did not exchange with someone.
Lulu: There was no one to exchange.
Ramu

Birthday

Karthik,
Ha[[y birthday and many happy returns. Do you see this site regularly ? If so please reply so we will all know that you are at least seeing what we all write.
-Ramakrishnan.

From Ramu

1. Happy birthday, Karthik. Many happy returns of the day.
2. Very nice to know the Diwali eve was celebrated well in Brindavan. I am able to imagine how it would have been, as I was there recently. A very nice group of people, always active .
3. A joke from the first stage play of Kathadi Ramurthy, " Matchless Matches".
A man borrows Rs.50 from a friend on a Wednesday, promising to return on Saturday. On Saturday, he borrows Rs.50 from another friend promising to return on Wednesday, and gives it to the first friend. Again, on Wed., he borrows Rs.50 from the first friend and gives it to the second friend. This goes on for sometime. Suddenly, he stops paying both his friends. One day both the friends catch him and ask their Rs.50. This man tells them," see, I am busy these days. So, do not trouble me. Every Wednesday you give him Rs.50 and you ( the second friend) give him Rs.50, every Saturday".
I used to play the roll of Mr.Wednesday.
Ramu

Singing duo

This is a rather late post.

On Deepavali-eve, there was a variety enertainment programme at Brindavan Palm Grove. For more than an hour, residents and some of their guests sang, film songs in all languages. Rukku and Jayaraman presented the "Meera" song, "Characharam". They had practised for a few days, but were still nervous. They had no need to, for it was really a good effort and was well and widely appreciated. A "therukoothu" by two resident-ladies evoked loud applause.

It was a jolly evening in Brindavan and the large gathering enjoyed it, despite early rain and continuing threat of rain, which made a planned buffet on the lawns move inside.

K.Narayanan

Miscellaneous

I got the following from "A Word A Day":

Jayaraman

The American Hyphen Society is a community-based, not-for-profit, grass-roots consciousness-raising/education-research alliance that seeks to help effectuate the across-the-board self-empowerment of wide-ranging culture-, nationality-, ethnicity-, creed-, gender-, and sexual-orientation defined identity groups by excising all multiculturally-less-than-sensitive terminology from the English language, and replacing it with counter-hegemonic, cruelty-, gender-, bias-, and, if necessary, content-free speech.

The society's motto is "It became necessary to destroy the language in order to save it."

Its headquarters are in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Greetings

Happy birthday, Kartik!

Hilarious

I was reading this e-book by Bill Bryson. It's called "The Mother Tongue - English and how it got that way". This is the opening of the book.

FYI google books is a very good source of ebooks.

From Ramu

1. Thanks much for the good wishes. The only special thing was, Kolkotta rasagulla.
2. JOKE:
Why is it easy to weigh a fish?
Because it has its own scales.
Ramu

Greetings

         Best wishes to Ramu and Sarada on their wedding anniversary today.


Vimala and Jayaraman

From Ramu

JOKE:
A board just at the entrance of a staircase:
Maele pogum vazhi, Dr.Vaigundam.
Ramu

O GOD Ramu chittappa, it was unbearable. Shanta parima kept herself so dignified. Seetha - what to say - what parent can bear such a thing!
It's worse when you are famous and the news is flashed repeatedly all over tv.
Hare Ram
Gayathri

From Ramu

It was shocking to know the sad demise of Swetha, P.C.Sriram's daughter, that she fell from fourth floor and died. Me & Sarada went to their house yesterday and it was pathetic to see Sriram & his wife.
Ramu

Happy Diwali

Wish you all a very happy diwali

Greetings

I am late. Wish Anu and Rajan a happy Wedding Anniversary and many happy returns.

Also a Happy Birthday to Shashank.

-Ramakrishnan.

Greetings

                                  Happy birthday, Sashank!
                                   Vimala and Jayaraman

From Ramu

1. Happy birthday to Sashank. Best wishes to him in advance.Many happy returns of the day.
2. A joke from Times of India:
Banta was filling up application form for a job. He was not sure as to what to fill in the column
" salary expected". After much thought, he wrote "yes".
Ramu

From Ramu

1. Very happy diwali to all.
2. A joke from Times of India:
A Russian ship was sinking.
Captain : Does anyone know how to pray?
An Indian priest comes forward and says he can pray.
Captain: Then, you keep praying. All others will wear life jackets. We are short of one.
Ramu

HAPPY DEEPAVALI

DEEPAVALI WISHES TO EVERYONE

Made my usual badam barfi today. And a new (old) sweet: Guess!!!
Kadalai Urundai, hahaha!
Got to make mullu tenkuzhal & ribbon pakoda in the coming two days.
And, MOST importantly, the LEHYAM!!

Ramu C: Nice to have "joke for the day"!

HAPPY DEEPAVALI again!
Gayathri

Greetings

Happy birthday, Vinayak!
Vimala and Jayaraman

From Ramu

1. Happy wedding anniversary, Rajan-Anu. Many happy returns of the day.
No one can forget Anu's wedding at Thirupathy. The trip was really an adventure . We were in Hyderabad then. I had booked a train ticket to Chennai, for the marriage. But I wanted to cancel the trip as trains were running late due to heavy downpour. Ashok forced me to go and made sure I boarded the train by sending escorts to the station.
2. A joke from Times of India:
Teacher: John, why are you late to school today?
John: Because of the sign board outside.
Teacher : What board?
John: There is a board on the road " go slow ".
Ramu

Wishes/Updates

Wishing Anu akka/Rajan a very happy anniversary and many more.

Just 3 more days to go for diwali :) I guess preparations would be in full swing at everybody's houses. Hope to post some pics of the sweets we made later on for e-sharing. Let's pray they turn out edible, haha.

Greetings

Best wishes to Anu and Rajan on their wedding anniversary today.  Many happy returns.
Vimala and Jayaraman

Joke

Joke for the day

(When you are under oath you have to tell the truth) In a trial, a small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, an elderly grandmother to the stand. He approached her and asked; " Mrs.. Jones, do you know me?"

  
She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I've known you since you were a young boy, and frankly, you're a big disappointment to me. 
  
You lie, cheat on your wife, manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you're a big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you never will amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. 
  
Yes, I know you." 
  
The lawyer was stunned! Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the room and asked, " Mrs.. Jones, do you know the defense attorney?" 
  
She again replied, "Why, yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster. He's lazy, bigoted, and has a drinking problem. He can't build a normal relationship with anyone and his law practice is one of the worst in the state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife with three different women. 
  
One of them was your wife. Yes I know him." 
  
The defense attorney almost died. 
  

The judge asked both lawyers to approach the bench and in a quiet voice said: "If either of you rascals asks her if she knows me, I'll send you to the electric chair ."

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