Happy Onam to the mallus

Happy Onam to all the Mallus. Enjoy your sadhyas and welcome Maveli.....

Viva Venky!

Prem tells me that Venky is one of the state leaders of the Paari Narpani Mantram which will become a political party in Jan 2010. And that nowadays he speaks in one meeting in a week. A newsitem about him appeared in the Tamilan Express, a local daily, a few days back.
Even when I saw him a few months back, he looked like a pakka politician - dressed in khadi white and driving a Scorpio, which is so popular with the Tamil political gentry.
It is good to have a politician in our midst :)

Hunt for Hannah is over

Dear All

Today was surprised to get a email on my Facebook page from Hannah Tryphena!!!!! Does it ring a bell... yes she is the one and she will be visiting our blog soon....

Famous singer -dancer

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_michael_jackson


Thats sad. God bless the families.
We actually got phone call saying he passed away from some advt!
Our oldest slamed the phone.Then she checked online.When we walked in she told us.

Our condolences

Rosh said she got a call from Prem. It is sad to hear his 3-year-old son passed away in April.
If any of you are in touch with him, please convey our heartfelt sadness, our prayers for strength for him and his family and friends.
God be with each and everyone of you.
Got mail from venki...
"yes really it was a sad news. i was very upset . but what to do we have to some time accept the reality.
he is recovering from the shock. the boy had many complications. prem had given all possible medication but nothing worked.
now he is ok.
there is a good news also parellely that his wife became a civil judge just days before the boy's death. the family had taken that as a gift of that boy.
family had come down to chennai on a day's visit to meet a senior judge in chennai and they had come to my place . they are ok now. any way let us hope for better."

Congrats on the good note. Thanks venki.
Prem. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

Zooming past

A demonstration in support of LTTE chief Prabakaran in Chennai last week... They were actually more policemen than demonstrators as trouble was expected. Our office was a fortress too and we had the para military apart from the police guarding our premises. But nothing untoward happened. It did bring traffic to a standstill for almost an hour. (Not the best of pictures, since it was taken on my mobile quickly... I didnt want the police arresting me :)

Here in Chennai, things have been slightly more interesting than usual of late. Pre-election campaigns, election results, post-election wrangling for ministerial berths by the Chief Minister, 'death' of Tiger chief Prabakaran (though some still believe it is not him) and of course the IPL tournament. Though Chennai Super Kings didnt see the light of the final, we tried to be happy that another South Indian team won the trophy.

The zoozoos caught our imagination more than the cricketers. They lit up our otherwise mundane lives for a while.

And now the IPL is over, the katthri heat is supposedly over (but the sun still shines mercilessly on the city) and schools are about to reopen.

New drive

Finally ,got our landscape in. hoping everything grows.

Our latest Ford Flex. Hubby part of the innumerable people who worked on it.We are enjoying our first new car .

Some pictures from Chennai

James with his great-grandmother








My mom with her grandkids









Our house in Chennai










My sisters family









My sister and mom









Annie's kid in Orange dress

Dr.Felix Moses

Congrats to Dr. Felix Moses, just read in orkut somewhere that he is now the new dept head.
I am sure this is a good time for all those like Miller, Murali ,Rajeev,Sunitha, Annie, Grizalda,Prem, Venki and all those who had sir both in B.A and M.A. to come up with your experiences.
He was nice person so far as my experiences with sir is concerned, who suddenly would come up with teasing or comments. sometimes serious. Wonder what marks kids get now!
All those with B.A experience was a bit careful.. as they had both ends of the marks.
lucky us.. we got the higher end of marks! when we joined.Though we were scared as his range kept changing.
Any one else got anything new to say? where are you all.. hibernating... winter is over spring here!

From Grace

Grace Stanley sent this mail to Usha:

Hi Usha,

Lovely to hear from you. Yes, I'm in Melbourne, Australia. Been married for the past 13 years, and have two girls – Priya age 7, and Divya turning 4 in a couple of weeks. We moved to Australia about 5 years ago since both our families live here. Used to be in the US before that – in Bloomington, Indiana. Would you believe one of my cousins lives in Farmington Hills, and I've visited her a few times. How long have you been there?

I work at a university here doing HR and Finance related stuff. I've lost touch with all the MCC gang, and just recently got back in touch with Glady. Have you kept in touch with others? What news of them, and please send me more news and photos of you.

Keep in touch,

Grace