Saturday, December 31, 2011

A mere child

Quotation from TOI (Times of India) dated 29-12-2001.

I must take issue with the term "a mere child", for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
- Fran Lapowitz.

Greetings

WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY AND HEALTHY 2012.

Happy New Year

Wishing everybody a very very Happy 2012


Akila, Mohan, Vaishnavi, Appa, Amma

Monday, December 26, 2011

Happy birthdays

A very very happy birthday from all of us to Sridhar anna and Jyotsna. Have a great day :)

Can't believe we are at the end of yet another year!!! This year seems to have flown at such a pace, it's amazing.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Greetings

Best wishes to Sridar on his birthday,
25 December.  Many happy returns!

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Humour/User info on packages

Ramaa,

You have made up for your long silence with an excellent posting. Keep going.

User info on products

Thanks Ramaa.  Lets have more such ticklers.  We need to laugh to keep sane in a world growing more insane by the day!

Saturday, December 17, 2011

LOL

Rama akka, too good. Thanks for sharing :)

user information on surface labels of retail packaging

The following is the lighter side of user instruction on packaging…
Source : the e-magazine : www.lokavani.com issue : October 2008 - I
Some examples of why the human race has probably evolved as far as possible. These are actual instruction labels on consumer goods:

On Sears hairdryer:
Do not use while sleeping.
(Gee, that's the only time I have to work on my hair!)

On a bag of Fritos:
You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside.
(The shoplifter special!)

On a bar of Dial soap:
Directions: Use like regular soap.
(and that would be how?)

On some Swann frozen dinners:
Serving suggestion: Defrost.
(But it's 'just' a suggestion!)

On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert: (printed on bottom of the box)
Do not turn upside down.
(Too late! you lose!)

On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding:
Product will be hot after heating.
(Are you sure? Let's experiment.)

On packaging for a Rowenta iron:
Do not iron clothes on body.
(But wouldn't that save more time?)
(Whose body?)

On Boot's Children's cough medicine:
Do not drive car or operate machinery.
(We could do a lot to reduce the construction accidents if we just kept those 5 year olds off those fork lifts.)

On Nytol sleep aid:
Warning: may cause drowsiness.
(One would hope!)

On a Korean kitchen knife:
Warning: keep out of children.
(hmm...something must have gotten lost in the translation...)

On a string of Christmas lights:
For indoor or outdoor use only.
(As opposed to use in outer space.)

On a food processor:
Not to be used for the other use.
(Now I'm curious.)

On Sainsbury's peanuts:
Warning: contains nuts.
(but no peas?)

On an American Airlines packet of nuts:
Instructions: open packet, eat nuts.
(somebody got paid big bucks to write this one...)

On a Swedish chainsaw:
Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands.
(Raise your hand if you've tried this...)

On a child's Superman costume:
Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.
(Oh go ahead! That's right, destroy a universal childhood belief.)
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

I am overwhelmed! I had no idea that the newspaper clipping had been posted here! THAAAAANKS for the wishes, everybody!
Simply had no time to come to the computer the past week. Today I have been home in the morning after a very long time, phew! Gotto run again in the evening.
Aishwarya, enjoyed your bit about the baby shower :):)
HareRam
Gayathri

Desi baby shower

Ramakrishna Perippa,
Thanks. But no photos, perippa. Amrritha surprisingly slept through the event so I did not have a chance to move from my chair. It's totally ok, perippa. Even we remembered the anniversary only the day before :) His id is r.saminathan@gmail.com
Congrats Gaythri akka. Saw some pictures of you, Ramya at Ramnarayanan's event on FB. Some lec-dem, I presume.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Wishes et al

A very happy birthday to Sumanth and Sri Krishnan athimber.

Gayathri akka, hearty congratulations again on behalf of all of us, including appa and amma.

Perippa, I agree with you that we are all blessed to be born in such a good and attached family as ours. Touch wood!!

Anniversary

Yesterday 12th December was the second anniversary of my bypass surgery.After a couple of months of pain and discomfort, I have been able to go about as a normal 80 year old by God's will.. At that time we had a lot of doubt if the surgery was required or advisable at the age of 79. I must thank my relatives here in Coimbatore like Jayaraman, Chandru and Narayanan who persuaded me and also my Doctor Sundar Ramanathan for the excellent job he did. Gayathri was also able to come and was with me in the hospital all the ten days. During the two months following, Charu's attention to my needs and forcing me to eat etc is something I will not forget. I am blessed to have such relatives and I say once again what I have said before that relationships are the most important thing in life, to make us happier in good times and help us bear bad times.

-Ramakrishnan.

BIRTHDAYS

I have become lazy and opened the Blog only today after a few days. Let me wish Sumant, Jairam and Srikrishnan HAPPY BIRTHDAY and many happy returns.

Desi Baby Shower

The mail on Baby Shower was interesting and I could imagine the scene. Have you got any photoes ?

Aishwarya, let me also wish you a Wedding Anniveersary and many happy returns, though I am very late. What is Kaushik's email ID ?

-Ramakrishnan.

Congrats!

FamilyPSC congratulates Gayathri on her recognition and wishes her a successful tenure!

Greetings

Birthday greetings to Sumant
13 December

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Greetings

Aishwarya and Koushik celebrated their wedding anniversary on the 6th December.  The family greets them and wishes them many happy returns.

I must apologise for not including this in the monthly celebrities list.  My little diary was not properly updated last year, hence the slip.  I also failed to include Jairam (Ramaa's son-in-law) among the birthday babes.  Apologies again.

We had no Internet connection for more than a week from 1 December.  BSNL kept giving us a run-around, with the local exchange guy being impolite and indifferent.  Thanks to an unnamed samaritan, the connection was set right last evening.





Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Desi Baby shower

Haha, the image of the mamis in Pattu pudavais wearing coats, girls wearing pavadais and speaking with the accent sounds hilarious.
Really appreciate that people do have seemandhams even if in NY. Very few have them even in India these days. It has become optional. In my case, we did not have a seemandham as M was in Singapore then.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Desi baby shower

We happened to attend a seemandham of one of our neighbours at Pomona Ranganathar Kovil, NY. Fusing the desi and western practices, they had 'baby shower' balloons all over the tiny hall that had a nostalgic scent of pattu pudavis. But of course, the pudavai-sporting maamis were walking around with winter coats and boots. It seemed like a perfect place to observe NRIs trying hard to strike a balance.
And the ABCD (American Born Confused Desi) kids were conversing in heavily accented English to their moms who were feeding them thatchi mammu, catered by the temple management. The whole event was absolute fun. That day being our wedding anniversary, we also had a chance for Ranganathar darshanam.

A correction

Ramya Anuj's wedding anniversary is on 11th December (2005), not 12th December.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Jai Ho!!

To our blog.. Perippa, my sincere apologies for not being able to contribute for a while, other than a few quick posts. I, too, totally agree with KN athimber in that your wishes are for the whole PSC family.
Most of my posts are done during some free time at work. But of late, work has been quite hectic with me having to train a new joinee in UK. And during weekends, I just don't feel like switching on the laptop unless absoluetely necessary. I promise to continue my contributions.

Yesterday we saw the movie 7aam arivu. I thought the movie was good, though I think they tried to convey too much information within 3 hours. But the basic concept is definitely good and Surya has done a great job.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Some confusion

Jayaram,
When I opened the blog now I could only see the November postings and not the two postings I had done in December. Then I clicked Archives December and got the postings. Also the photoes are of NOVEMBER celebreties.
-Ramakrishnan.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

The Blog should continue

Power cuts in the morning and evening coupled with my own routine timings for walk, outing, lunch, serial, siesta etc together with Vivek's cornering the computer and also the breakdown of my UPS resulted in my not participating in the Blog for quite some time and I have missed it. I have talked to persons like Ramaa and Raji about the blog and they see it once in a while but do not post anything. I requested them to write something, anything at least once a month. Sowmya says she is too busy and rarely sees her mail. Varshaya was once active but is now silent. Ravi talks about the need to belong and keeping in touch with relatives (I hope he sees this)but I dont know if he sees the blog.

The BLOG SHOULD CONTINUE and I suppose, like in a bus, people will get in and get out at intervals.

To make it interesting, let me say a joke ( I read it recently and some of you also might have seen it).:

He has just starting learning golf and carries some balls in his trouser pocket to the course, in a bus. The lady in the next seat keeps staring at the bulge. He is not able to stand it and says "gold balls". After a little while, the lady asks "Is it as painful as tennis elbow".

-Ramakrishnan.

Greetings

Saradam and I wish Anu and Rajan a Happy Wedding Anniversary and many happy, healthy returns.

Also a Happy Birthday to Pavithra, I am late.

-Ramakrishnan.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Hi all!
Visisted the blog after a month, I think! J Chittappa - definitely justified in your frustration - my first thought was to agree with your wanting to stop the wishes - then I felt KN Athimber's opinion was right too. It is really a nice thing to see the wishes - & I inform my side of the family to check out the blog esp when they have been wished- they do not visit the blog regularly.

TSS 60 function went off well by God's grace - it was really wonderful that almost everyone we had invited could make it.

Sowmya & I enjoyed a short stay in Bombay - but that was hectic too. A lot of alaichal & I do feel a bit drained now. Thinking back, its been one roller coaster right from Navaratri - with the Char Dham Yatra, Deepavali, preparations for the functions........
Now a new responsibility as Exec Trustee in the organisation SAFE is taking me deeper into the music season - I am still feeling a bit diffident about it - let's see how it goes this first time.
Ramya will be back here from Bombay after sending off Anuj on Dec 1. She has two dance recitals - on Jan 5 & 13. I am not singing for her this time, she has fixed a professional orchestra.

Oops, just saw the time - off to bed - g'night!
Gayathri

Greetings


               Happy birthday, Pavitra.  Many happy returns!
                                         30th November 2011
(Correction in date made after Chandru told me the right date. Sorry for the slip.)

Happy bday Vimala Perimma

I totally agree with KN atimber. Your frustration is truly justified, perippa. But please carry this on. Absolutely excellent effort. As I told you earlier, my colleague is planning for a story on family blogs and since I did not have your number, I had asked her to get it from Akila. And apparently, she did call up Akila and had got yours. I'm not sure when she's planning to work on that.
Hope all's well with all the others.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Greetings

It is Vimala's birthday today.  I am reproducing two pictures of a CD with a greeting message given to Vimala by Smt. Meena Hariharan, a resident of Brindavan and a staunch Rama bhakta.  She spends most of her spare time writing Ram nam.

Jayaraman 

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Blog posts

I can understand Jayaraman's frustration. The most active bloggers, Akila, Gayathri and Ramu, are inactive for various reasons. So the posts are few. But, Jayaraman, continue your good work. When you post a greeting,it is on behalf of the PSC family!

K.Narayanan

Whither India?

Today's paper brings news of another day of 'tumult' in Parliament.  When will democracy truly function in India?

Uma Bharati says she will set fire to any Walmart store that may be opened in India.  Are political leaders and activists exempt from laws against inciting violence?

Friday, November 25, 2011

Thanks

Prashanth wants to thank us for our greetings on his birthday.  It seems he is not able to sign in, though he had earlier signed up.  I am sending him another invite.

Activity on the blog is becoming progressively less.  Perhaps there are a few who follow it but do not post anything.  I am thinking of stopping the birthday/anniversary greeting posts and leaving it to the individuals in the family to communicate directly if they wish.   For the present, I shall continue to provide the monthly celebrity lists and leave it at that.

Any comments will be welcome.

Jayaraman





Thursday, November 24, 2011

Greetings

Best wishes to Bhuvana on her birthday today, 24 November. Many happy returns!

Vimala and Jayaraman

Monday, November 21, 2011

Happy birthday

A very very happy birthday to Prashanth and Karthik (belated) from us

Greetings

Happy birthday.
Many happy returns!, Prashanth
Happy birthday, Prashanth.  Many happy returns!
Shruti, Amma, Appa, Patti, Thatha












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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Friday, November 11, 2011

Greetings

Greeting (belatedly) Ramu and Sarada on their wedding anniversary yesterday.  Many happy returns!

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Happy birthday

Gayathri akka and Sundaresan Atimber, sashtiyabdhapoorthi wishes. We seek your aasirvaatham. Hope the function was awesome fun. We missed it.
Aishwarya & Koushik.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Wishes

Our belated birthday wishes to Vinayak and Sashank and happy anniversary to Anu akka and Rajan.

Very eagerly waiting to meet everybody (atleast whoever is present here) at the Sashtiabdhapoorthi function of Sundaresan athimber.

Shashtiabdapurthi greetings

Greetings and good wishes to Sundaresan as he completes 60 years. Our prayers for his good health and long life, full of happiness!

Rukku and KN

Greetings

I have not been able to sit at the computer for the last few days - also the power cuts are a problem.

We wish a happy birthday to Vinayak, Shashank and Kartik and happy wedding anniversary to Rajan-Anu and Ramu-Sarada. Belated. Hope Rajan is recovering very fast and will be able to get back to his old normal life soon. His will power is remarkable.

Really happy to see that Aishwarya is back on the blog and will be participating regularly.

-Ramakrishnan.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Shashtiabdapoorti

Warm greetings to Sundaresan on the eve of the landmark celebration.  We are sure it will be a grand occasion to be remembered and cherished in the years to come.  All the best!

Jayaraman

Monday, November 7, 2011

TSS 60th

Hi all!
I snatched a few minutes off to catch up with mails while the children (?!) and B'day boy are out.
I think the plans and preparations are going ok - they all have to come together on D-Day - with God's grace & elders' blessings.
We are looking forward to having everybody in the family with us on Sunday. And more so - we'll miss all those not here :(
We had darshan of Sakatapuram Periyava yesterday and got His blessings. We were concerned about the unrelenting rains for the past 2 weeks. The skies have cleared up today - & hope it lasts :)

Hare Ram
Gayathri

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Internet

My Internet connection was out of service for about six days and I must be way behind with some anniversaries and birthdays.  The telephone exchange called me a half hour back to ask if the Net was working now.  I shall have to some work to catch up.   Will try to do it later this evening.

Nice to see you back on the blog Aishwarya.  Koushik called a few days ago - Deepavali time.  How are you all?  How is Amrita?

Hope your part of the U.S. has not been affected by the snowstorm.


Monday, October 31, 2011

Birthday calendar

Hope all's well with all of you. Now that I'm a stay-at-home mom without any deadline pressures for news stories, I've decided to religiously follow this blog. Birthday calendar is a feel-good factor for the birthday souls. An amazing concept, Perippa.
With a truckload of high-profile relatives-by-marriage, I could practically drop names when at work(only, I should remember their relation to me.) I'm glad to be part of this family.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Birthday greetingsy

Birthday greetings, Ramya, 27 October.
Many happy returns!
Vimala, Jayaraman

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Birthday greetings

                           Happy birthday, Rajan.  Many happy returns!
                                    Vimala, Jayaraman

Monday, October 24, 2011

TSS conveys his THANKS for the B'day wishes.

Our Char Dham yatra was very good, though the udambu aluppu is catching up on us now!

HAPPY DEEPAVALI TO ALL PSC FAMILY MEMBERS
With love,
Gayathri

Golden Peacock Award for Hexaware



Sekar's company, Hexaware, received the Golden Peacock Award for corporate governance.  Here is a picture showing Sekar receiving the award.

 The award was presented by Rt Hon’ble Mark Hoban, Financial Secretary to Her Majesty's Treasury along withRt Hon Baroness Hanham CBE, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government , Dr Ola Ullsten , former Prime Minister of Swden and Chairman Golden Peacock Awards . Also present ( not in pic) Rt. Hon. Baroness Verma, Minister in Govt. Whips office and House of Lords Spokesperson for International Development, UK


Birthday greetings





Greeting Charu on her birthday, 24th October.   Many happy returns!
Vimala, Jayaraman

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Birthday greetings

Best wishes to Sundaresan on his birthday 19 October.  Many happy returns!
Vimala, Jayaraman

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Birthday greetings

Best wishes to Skanda on his birthday, 18 October.  Many happy returns!
Vimala, Jayaraman

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Belated wishes

A very very happy birthday/anniversary to all celebrants.

I have not been able to post the last few days, sincere apologies for that. I am currently in Slough, UK. A week has already gone past. Just can't wait to get back home :)

Friday, October 14, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JAYARAMAN

Normally Jayaraman posts pictures and birthday greetings for all. We were wondering who would do it for him, for I do not know the technique. Was happy to see Shankar stepping in and doing the honours.

Many many happy returns, Jayaraman.

Late posting because of 9 to 5 power shutdown here.

Rukku and KN

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Happy Birthday Appa!

Dear Thatha / Appa,
Happy birthday...and many, many happy returns of the day!!

lots of love,

Shruti, Prashanth
Ujwala, Ramesh
Priya, Jayashankar
14th October 2011

Greetings

Thank you very much, Rukku and KN, for your greetings.
Yesterday was Lux's birthday.  Here is wishing her many happy returns.  I did not get round to posting a greeting for her yesterday.  But I was able to speak to her in Jodhpur last evening and convey our greetings personally - thanks to modern communications.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Many many happy returns to Jayaraman on his Nakshatram birthday today

Rukku and KN

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Happy birthday

Best wishes to Neeraja on her birthday today, 11 October.  Many happy returns!


Vimala and Jayaraman

Monday, October 10, 2011

Happy birthday

Greetings to Vishak on his birthday, 10th October.  Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Happy birthday





Greetings to Mohan 0n his birthday, 5 October.
Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

Monday, October 3, 2011

Birthday

Wishing a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND MANY HAPPY RETURNS TO MOHAN.

K.T.Ramani

Ramani (his friends know him as KTA or KT Ramani) has passed away suddenly and it has left a void particularly for us who are in Coimbatore. I have not seen him get angry and in 1959 I took his family car (a Austin A-40) from Madras to Tirupathi; due to a mistake of mine the car broke down half way up the hill; I stayed at Tirupathi for three days to get the car repaired and came to Madras and Ramani did not say a word to make me feel embarassed or hurt.
-Ramakrishnan.

Anu Arvind

My belated wishes to Anu for a happy birthday and many happy returns.
My net has become very slow and I am waiting to get a new modem. This message is not going.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Friday, September 30, 2011

Birthdays

        A few birthdays have gone by in the last few days.  Raju and Varsha's on the 27th and Ramakrishnan/Kumar/Sekar's on the 28th.  Today it is Nana's birthday.  Family PSC greets them all and wishes them many happy returns.

Jayaraman

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Ramani athimber

It was very shocking and sudden to hear about athimber. I came to know him much better during all my trips to Coimbatore.
As Gayathri akka said, he did not suffer at all.

RAMANI

I am deeply saddened.I loved Ramani p'pa dearly--he was a fun person, took me several times to play tennis & shared many tennis stories.

Please give my love & condolences to Pappa p'ma, Anand, Vidya & families

Krishnakumar
nambavey mudiayalai. It is too sudden. :(:(

The consolation is that for him, it was a good end with no prolonged suffering....
Gayathri

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Obituary

Ramani passed away at 8.20 a.m. on Tuesday, 27 September 2011 at Coimbatore, after a very brief illness.  All of us mourn the loss.  We shall always remember his gentle nature, simplicity and affection.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Baskar

Felt SO proud seeing this news item in the paper today - edo naan daan saadicha maadiri, hehe!
I wanted to call & congratulate - can someone give me his phone number please?
Gayathri

Bhaskar, congratulations!


Bhaskar Ramamurthi, new IIT-M director

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“The institute will find solutions to pressing problems of society”
Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi
Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi
Bhaskar Ramamurthi has been appointed as the new director of Indian Institute of Technology – Madras.
“The institute will continue to focus on fundamental and translational research given the development imperative of the country and find solutions to the pressing problems facing the society,” said Prof. Ramamurthi, a professor of electrical engineering.
President Pratibha Patil in her capacity as the Visitor of IIT Madras had approved the appointment of Prof. Ramamurthi which was conveyed to the IIT-M Board of Governors Chairman Prof. M.M. Sharma on Thursday. “The chairman informed me this morning. I will assume charge on Friday morning,” the new director said.
To him, the IIT-M, along with the oldest IITs, has to elevate itself to the next stage in fundamental and translational research as both were required.
It would continue to pursue fundamental research contributing to global knowledge pool and leverage innovation and technology to produce visible success stories that would impact the society in a positive way in sectors like education and agriculture.
“People are looking up to the IITs to improve the quality of their lives, especially in rural India,” Prof. Ramamurthi said optimistic of delivering products and solutions suited to the inclusive growth model of the country.
Research would also be a major thrust area. Most of the IITs have doubled the Ph.Ds in the past five years but still the output was modest compared to that of China and doctoral scholars were required for industry and teaching, he pointed out.
Dean of Planning at IIT-M till now, he graduated from IIT-M in 1980 with a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering and then went on to pursue his M.S and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
After obtaining his doctorate, he joined the AT&T Bell Laboratories in the United States where he worked on problems in indoor wireless communications and joined the faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT-in 1986.
His research area involves modulation and coding for mobile communications, wireless communication networks and design and implementation of wireless local loop systems.
He is a founding member of the Telecommunications and Computer Networking Group (TeNeT) that has come up with several products like Rural ATM, medical diagnostic kit and Indic computing to name a few.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Some e-birthday cake

Belated birthday wishes to Srikanth anna, appa and Anu akka.

This time, as appa's birthday fell on a sunday I was able to bake a cake for him.

The frosting is a butter cream coffee frosting. The topping was added for Vaishnavi's fancy. Lux athai and Seenu athimber were with us for lunch that day. We had a good time

Monday, September 19, 2011

Happy birthday




Birthday greetings to Anu, 19 September.  Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Birthday

A very happy birthday to Ramu and Anu (18th and 19th) and many happy returns. To Anu my special blessings for a fast recovery of Rajan to his normal self.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Thanks for the wishes. This time we celebrated with Appa-Saradamma. Also Vinayakar Chaturthi & (Sama) Avani Avittam & prasad's WA.

They are back in KVP now. I came down with a bad bout of acidity - vomitting & thanks to Saradamma for taking over the kitchen! I am now 'limping back to normalcy' hehehe!
Hare Ram
Gayathri

Wedding anniversary

Papa, Ramani and Lalita and Ganapati celebrate their wedding anniversary today.  Our best wishes to them.  I spoke to them a little while back.  With the call rates coming down so much, we are now able to make long long-distance calls without thinking about the ticking meter!

KN and Rukku are visiting Sringeri and should be back in Brindavan tomorrow afternoon.  Twice earlier they had planned to go but had to cancel the programme due to indisposition.  

Friday, September 2, 2011

Happy anniversary

A very happy anniversary to Prasad anna - Charu manni, Gayathri akka - Sundaresan athimber.

Hope everybody had kozhukattais for Pillayar chathurthi. This time my kozhukattai was a biiig blooper. The maavu just did not shape up well and it just "sat" (okkaandhu pochu). Later I found that I added too much water to the flour. But the poornam was yumm. Wondering what to shape that up into now. Maybe polis :)

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Wedding anniversary

Best wishes to Gayathri and Sundaresan on their wedding anniversary, 31 August.  Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

Wedding anniversary

Best wishes to Charu and Prasad on their wedding anniversary, 30 August.  Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

Monday, August 29, 2011

Wishes

A very happy (belated) anniversary to Rama akka - Nana athimber,Laksmi - Jayaram.

Very very happy anniversary to Uma manni and Hari anna.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Wedding anniversary

Best wishes to Uma and Hari on their wedding anniversary, 28 August.  Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

Friday, August 26, 2011

Wedding anniversary

Best wishes to Ramaa, Nana, Lakshmi and Jayaram who celebrate their wedding anniversaries on 26 August.  Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Happy birthday

Belated greetings to Vaishnavi on her birthday, 19th August.  Many happy returns!  


(I don't know how I missed it.  Akila, I wish you had pointed out the omission from the celebrities list on the sidebar!)

Wishes

Bealted anniversary wishes to Mala manni-Kumar anna, Hari anna-Uma manni. A very very happy birthday to Rama akka and KN athumber.

Vaishnavi celebrated her birthday on the 19th. She's 7 now!! Sharing a few pictures taken on her birthday and during a dinner earlier. Click here to go to the album.

Happy birthday

Best wishes to Ramaa Sekhar on her birthday, 25th August.  Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

Monday, August 22, 2011

Wedding Anniversary

Saradam and I wish Hari and Uma a happy wedding anniversary.

Strange !

This morning (22.8.2011) when I open the Blog I get mesasages dated February and the most recent is Jayaraman's posting on crosswords. I am unable to get the recent postings.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Wedding anniversary

Best wishes to Kumar and Mala on their wedding anniversary, 19th  August and Arvind and Anu on theirs, 20th August.  Many happy returns! 

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Ooops!

Sorry for the slip, Gayathri. The wrong entry has been removed!
Jayaraman
Oooops Chittappa, Anuj's b'day is JULY 18. I think you have posted last month too!

I wanted to comment on Amma's photo, but it kept saying 'only members can post a comment' & rejected mine!

There is this lady who comes regularly to Sakatapuram Periyava's camp - I know she is somehow related to Kamala manni, but I don't know her name. She enquired about all of you - J chittappa-chitti, Mythili athai, Rukku athai, Lux & Papa athais, my parents, of course.
I learnt yesterday from her that Mani chittappa and chitti had come with their daughters in law, and that the elder d-i-law's family was vey close to Periyava.
Hare Ram
Gayathri

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Greetings


Happy Birthday and Many Happy Returns to Jayashankar, Arjuna, Vidya and Anuj.

A Happy Wedding Anniversary to Kumar-Mala, Anu-Arvind.

Saradam and I are going to Madras on 25th to attend the Sadhaabishekam of Saradam's brother Seshu on 27th. We will return to Kovaipudur on 5th September after spending 10 days with Gayathri.

- Ramakrishnan.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Happy birthday

A very very happy birthday and many more to Shankar anna, Vidya akka, Vivek and Arjuna.

Monday, August 15, 2011

Greetings

Happy birthday, Vivek! Many happy returns!
Priya, Jayashankar, Vimala, Jayaraman, Shruti and Prashanth


Sunday, August 14, 2011

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Greetings

                                      Happy birthday, Anand
                                               10th August

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Good joke, appa!
Akila, yes, the festivals are upon us with a bang!
I went to Kanakasri Nagar to meet Ravi - had a good time chatting with him, Srilakshmi and her mother.
Yesterday I officiated as Chief Guest at a Bharatanatyam Arangetram!! New experience - but I could do without the speech part of it!
I am leaving for Bombay tomorrow on an 'official' visit. I will be attending the L&T-CSI meeting on 11th as a Trustee of Prayas.
While the other two Prayas members are returning the same evening, I am taking advantage of Rajiv's being in Bombay. So this year, my Varalakshmi puja, Avani Avittam and Gayathri Japam are going to be celebrated there.
Back on 15th Monday.
Hare Ram
Gayathri

Wishes

Again (!!) I've missed quite a few birthdays. Wishing everybody a very happy birthday. I was under the impression that I just "recently" posted in our blog. But when I scroll down, don't see my name anywhere in the last 15 days
Now that appa's missing in action, I will try to make up for his silence as well as much as I can. With the onset of aadi maasam, can't wait for all the festivals and the holidays - more so the holidays.
Somehow this season, the shops in panagal park are not as crowded as they were last year. Even the great Saravana stores seems to be only half full!! Is it the economy or are people bored of shopping or both??!!

Monday, August 8, 2011

Ravi

I have sent an invitation to Ravi and hope he will sign up.  We can do with a wider and more active participation.
Jayaraman

JOKE

I do not remember if I posted this joke before.

Little Sally: Mummy, does God go to the bathroom ?
Mum: No dear, why do you ask
Sally : Well, this morning I heard Dad knock on the bathroom and say "Oh God, are you still there."

Ravi

Ravi and family are in India (Chennai) for a week . I told him I had sent a Birthday Greeting to Niranjan in the blog but he does not visit the blog. He does look into his mail box often and we can try inviting him to the blog once again. I told him that he should see the blog so that he can be in touch with the family and he agreed.

Birthday

A very happy BIRTHDAY to Anand and many happy returns. I do not think Anand uses the computer. It may be a good idea to invite Jyotsna to join the blog since she does work on the computer.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Birthday

A very happy BIRTHDAY to Niranjan and many happy returns. I wonder if Niranjan or Ravi will be seeing this. Ravi, please respond so that we will know you are seeing the blog once in a while and let us all know how you are all doing etc.

-Ramakrishnan.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Greetings

Best wishes to Ramani on his birthday, 30 July.  Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

BIRTHDAY

A very happy BIRTHDAY to Ramani (KTA) and many happy returns.

Friday, July 22, 2011

Looks like I will have to thank on behalf of Anuj for the Birthday greetings. I told him to see the blog - don't know if he did.

Am now busy collecting data about MLV for an encyclopedia - assignment given to me by Gowri and Ramnarayan.

Sakatapuram Periyava is camping at Sanskrit College during Chatur masyam. We are attending as much as possible. I got chance to sing during Sangeeta Seva on 3-4 occasions. Evening Ramayana discourse by Damal Ramakrishnan is going on. Next week it will be Sundar Kumar, and Damodara Dikshitar after him.

Gayathri

Birthday

Hi Shruti,

Saradham and I wish you a very happy birthday and many happy returns.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Greetings

                     Greetings to Shruti on her birthday, 21 July.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Greetings

Best wishes to Anuj on his birthday, 18 July.  Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

Greetings

Birthday Greetings to Anuj. Happy Birthday and many happy returns.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Happy birthday

Birthday greetings to Rajani and Koushik.  Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Greetings

Saradam and I wish a very happy wedding anniversary to Sundar and Charu. Also a very happy birthday to Rajani and Kaushik. Many happy returns.

The jokes are really good and though it is early in the morning now, Charu and Vivek are by my side and we all had a good laugh.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Kunjappa's birthday today

Best wishes to Sundar and Charu on their wedding anniversary today.


Today is also our father PSC's birthday.  I recall with nostalgia and gratitude the times spent with him, all that he gave us and the memories that he has left us.


Jayaraman

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Humour

Thanks Akila for the interlude of humour.  Here is one which Kumar/Sekar heard when they were in Central School. Delhi.

A teacher was speaking to the Principal when a student tried to interrupt.  And the teacher said "I talk, Principal talk.  Middle middle why talk?"

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

More on Communication :d

Principal to student..." I saw u yesterday rotating near girls' hostel pulling cigarette...? "
(WOW...like a table top???....hav heard about pulling legs, this is sumthing new)


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Tomorrow call your parents especially mother and father
(Any other options???)

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Class teacher once said :


"Pick up the paper and fall in the dustbin!!!"
(Who??? paper or student???)

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Once Hindi teacher said...."I'm going out of the world to America..."
(hmmm...interesting)


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"..DON'T TRY TO TALK IN FRONT OF MY BACK..."
(Topsyturvy)


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Don't laugh at the back benches...otherwise teeth and all will be fallen down.....

(Grrr....this person needs Basic Communication Skills Class Room Training)

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It was very hot in the afternoon when the teacher entered. She tried to switch the fan on, but there was some problem. And then she said

"why is fan not oning" (ing form of on)
(New Discovery)


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Teacher in a furious mood...

Write down your name and father of your name!!
(Excuse me...)


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"Shhh... quiet... the principal is revolving around college"
(Gr8...is he a satellite or sumthing???)

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My manager started like this

"Hi, I am Madhu, Married with two kids"
(Child marriages are banned... :D)

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"I'll illustrate what I have in my mind" said the professor and erased the board

(What an illustration...I like this professor)

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"Will you hang that calendar or else I'll HANG MYSELF"
(Well, you can proceed, would u like to leave a note behind as well...)

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LIBRARIAN SCOLDED," IF U WILL TALK AGAIN, I WILL KNEEL DOWN OUTSIDE"
(That will be better....)


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Chemistry HOD comes and tells us...

"My aim is to study my son and marry my daughter"
(No Comments...chemical locha!!!)

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"Why are you looking at the monkeys outside when I am in the class?!"
(Because we want to check similarities :-) )

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Lab assistant said this when my friend wrote wrong code...

"I understand. You understand. Computer how understand??      
 
(In terms of 1's n 0's)


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Seeing the principal passing by, the teacher told the noisy class,
"Keep quiet, the principal has passed away"
(2 min of silence)

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The PT master told the students who were notorious.
"Hey, from tomorrow onwards you both come together separately"
(Make it possible and I will reward my life time savings...)
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PT master to his students "Do you know? I have 2 daughters. Both are girls!!!"

(You need some counseling dude...)
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Hindi master to his students by pointing his scooter that is parked under a tree,

"See there. My scooter is understanding the tree!!!"
(Wow...when do the non living things started having affairs???)
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PT Trainer rocks again,

"Okay guys, all of you stand in a straight circle!"
(Wow what an oxymoron...)

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A teacher asked the student  "Draw a round circle"...
(He might be thinking that he can draw a circle in anyway ;)...)
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A chemistry lecturer asked a student "Take 250 ml of water in 100 ml of flask "

(He need to learn the numbers again...)
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A Chemistry lecturer again " Take copper wire of any material"
(Copper or any material!!!!!!)
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Once a lecturer unable to say "get out of the class",so he went to Student and told him "Follow me" and he went of the class and then he asked the Student "Now don't follow me " and he came inside...

(What an practical illustration!!!!...rofl)
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Happy Birthday

A Very Happy Birthday to Ramesh and many happy returns.

Monday, July 4, 2011

From Ramu

Best wishes to Ramesh on his birthday, Many happy returns of the day.
Ramu Sarada

Happy birthday

A very very happy birthday to Aditya and Ramesh anna. Have a great day :)

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Friday, July 1, 2011

From Ramu

Best wishes to Aditya on his birthday. Many happy returns of the day.
Ramu Sarada

Happy birthday

Best wishes to Aditya on his birthday, 1st July.  Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Monday, June 27, 2011

How thoughtful

Perippa, thank you so much for the update on Rajan. That was a very moving gesture by Rajan and Anu akka's friends. I have always been following his marathon's thanks to facebook. I am sure in no time he would recover and get back to his active life.
A very happy birthday to Aparna akka. Hope you have a great day.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Happy birthday

Happy birthday, Aparna.  Many happy returns!


Vimala and Jayaraman

Rajan Raju's progress

I reproduce below, for information, a mail just received from Chandru.


"My dear Jayaram
All well. Rajan continues to progress. He was made to sit  up on the bed with his legs dangling over the sides day before yesterday. While lying on bed  they remove the neck brace. For caution, the brace is put and he is turned etc., He was given a regular shower bath with shampoo for his hair etc., from day before yesterday. Physiotherapy and occupational therapy continues and he is slowly regaining movements. It is likely he may be shifted to the other rehabilitation hospital for specialised rehab tretment tomorrow. Let us hope and pray his progress will be faster after that. 
There was a marathon run yesterday here and the distance to run was  100 kms.Almost  1000 people participatedin this.  I understand Rajan had earlier registered his name to participate for the 100 kms run, He participates in all such  activities here and also outside Singapore. He has done this earlier  occasions also. As he is in hospital now and cannot participate in the current event,  many of his and Anu's friends decided to run on his behalf. The organisers, when informed of Rajan being in hospital, were happy to let them do the run like a relay race. Here groups of 2 persons ran the distance in laps of 10 kms of the route, the last batch running the last lap of 10 kms. They had prepared special T shirts with the wordings 'TEAM RAJAN - Got to keep a good thing going"  Anu and Arjuna ran the first lap of 10 kms.. The team completed the run successfully. Very thoughtful and supportive - this gesture of Rajan and Anu's friends."


From Ramu

1. Best wishes to Aparna on her birthday. Many happy returns of the day.
Anjana is in fourth year of her engineering and Aparna will be staying in Tanjore, for one more year, with Anjana. Aparna's prayers now will be that Anjana should complete her engineering well . Aparna, we join in your prayers, for the good health of you, Srikrishnan and Anjana, on this occassion.
Ramu Sarada