Holi

Author : Rainmusings      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 3/27/2013 6:14:00 AM

'Sanja was enthu to celebrate Holi after she had listened to our tales of Holi celebration in the past. The our includes me and my mom. Every holi we remember the fun we had when we lived in Blore and the all the families in the compound celebrated holi with great enthu. It would take several baths to rinse of the colors. Staying with neighbours who were Rajasthani made us celebrate holi in its true sense. At end of day Mom was orange in color and it wouldnt leave her for a few (...)'

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A letter to my grandma

Author : Rainmusings      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 3/12/2013 10:58:00 AM

'For the past few days we ( esp my mom --your daughter and me ) have been thinking about you. What fun we used to have? How Sanja is missing the experience of being with you. I remember you as the 70th something kid playing  palankuli, parama padham. Fighting with your daughter when she cried you made some cheating moves , calling your grand daughter to settle the disput :P. Your kollu pethi is missing all this. wish you had lived some more years healthy to see me get married an(...)'

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The long lost post of Sanja's 4th bday

Author : Rainmusings      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 3/12/2013 10:36:00 AM

'yes it is long lost as in the post is delayed by almost 7 months :(. So here are the updates of her birthday celebration as I remember .This time around we had 2 cakes - one was ordered and another was a tutty-fruitty cake baked by me. I guess this will become a tradition of sorts for the years to come since 1. Sanja has a huge friends gang in our locality.2. S Grandpa  ceremony is around this time -so the elders at home wont take outside food. This birthday  we order(...)'

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Singva Singamata

Author : Rainmusings      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 2/28/2013 10:49:00 AM

'That is tanglish. Sanja is in the middle oflearning many english words and she is trying make them appear more tamil but saying them in the way we pronounce the tamil words. A sample Amma,  I sing pattu, but R ( her class mate) always singamata as is to say  - I sing but R doesnt sing.We say in tamil- ava pada mata to mean she doesnt sing so she just substituted the pada with sing :PAnd as a baby she never said I , me , mine , she used to say naaku, naandu . Some other wor(...)'

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The weekend that zipped past us

Author : Rainmusings      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 2/11/2013 9:23:00 AM

'It has been a hectic weekend this Sat / Sun. Am left with a bodyache and reddened eyes . saturday morning we were off very early to an eye hospital for Sanja 's eye checkup. We had our breakfast at the hospital and since the check up got over by 9:30Am ,S suggested we take a peak at the Landmark sale. so off we went to nungambakkam land mark and waiting for half hour for the shop to open.. Sanja had a gr8 time looing at so many books. She was totally in awe with so many books around(...)'

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The mandatory school visit

Author : Rainmusings      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 2/8/2013 10:53:00 AM

'Happened on feb 2nd .So S, Sanja and myself  took our Duro for the ride till her school that is almost 12km from home taking a highway and beatuiful scenary of the air force training cetree on one side and small lake on the other side. As usual ,anythingto do with school, starts by visiting the awesome temple they have inhouse. Then we were shuttled to the play area where Sanja played played and played. She is addicted to the slides there . She introduced us to couple of her fr(...)'

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What made my day

Author : Rainmusings      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 2/8/2013 7:27:00 AM

'conversation between my colleague say B and myself while having tea at officeMe: What do you do on weekends.B: I take much needed rest. What about you?Me: I do grocery shopping and plan something to do with my kid.B: **shocked** - You have a baby ? How old Me: Oh she is 4 .5 years old B : **shocked again** : Such a big gal. I thought you were recentl married ..Me: thinking- do i actually look that young  (he he he ..)it has happened many times now, people cant believe I am a mo(...)'

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30 years of togetherness

Author : Rainmusings      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 2/4/2013 10:05:00 AM

'Happy anniversary to Appa and Amma as they complete 30 years of wedded life and 35+ years of knowing one another .Appa ,amma decided to visit the temple at Thiruneermalai where they got married. It has become a tradition like to visit this temple on their anniversary day (since they celebrated 25th year ). 30 years of  togetherness through the highs and lows of life.  To have had a love marriage in the 1982, to playing host many a friends get together, bringing up a daught(...)'

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2013 is here

Author : Rainmusings      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 1/31/2013 10:56:00 AM

'And no new year posts , no travel updates means I was in rather disturbing phase of life if one would call it . Updates are many from home side, work side and all sides ;) . It is almost a month into the new year , and the mayans actually made so many of us fools thinking we wont be there to see this day. However that was good timepass finding out what theories would one associate with the so called - END of  the world. Am at a better phase of life now than the previous few mon(...)'

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Thuruvan

Author : Rainmusings      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 8/23/2012 11:45:00 AM

'Scene: Sanja latest obsession is to draw draw color color draw draw color color atleast 10-15 pages a day.So she is busy drawing and finds that her pencil is not sharp enough. Here is how she got hold of a sharpenerSanja: Appa , appa , thruvan thariyaS : !!!! apadina - (means?)Sanja: Adhan pa pencil thuruvardhuS: (smacks on head) you mena sharpner.Sanja: yes appa.We say thuruvardhu for coconut grating. She applied the same word for the sharpening her pencil.And guess what the actual(...)'

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Where have I been/ What am I doing

Author : Varsha aka Rain      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 8/22/2012 9:38:00 AM

'-sadly neglecting the blog. :(-studying :)- having inner struggles  :(- seeing a baby gal grow up to a miss little lady :)- watching a little gals dream come true , seeing the happiness shine in her eyes :)-cooking :)-fighting with low self esteem, :( and still not winning over it.-trying to find a purpose in life  :|-lose weight and get back in shape :( :(-scolding the little one :(- health issues :((-getting worse in maintaining family ties :(  [ After marriage I am(...)'

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And we identify things, tell numbers, play with alphabets.

Author : Varsha aka Rain      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 3/14/2012 4:42:00 AM

'The lady of the house is back to reading books big time. Yesterday night she had the Mickey clubhouse  book series (some 12 of them) with her. She read each one of them, identifying things in each page. The book has the disney characters doing some stuff , going on trips, some animals , teaches colors ,shapes, etc.. etc... And so this is how madam read it out to me from one of the books where each one is preparing something for the party.Minnie and plate and mummam (food).Goofy(...)'

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Pongal

Author : Varsha aka Rain      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 1/17/2012 4:46:00 AM

'is done to Thank Sun omachi. He gives us Arusi (Rice), pappu(Pulses), goutumai.  (wheat).  - Says Sanja . Her aunty at school makes it a point to tell stories / heads up on each festival. Sanja explained what is pongal. She wanted to know why is Bhogi celebrated. Here is what I came up with. We burn old papers/ sleeping mats / brooms etc to signify that we want to burn all our past wrong doings.  And  to use it  for our own betterment (;)), I (...)'

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Persons

Author : Varsha aka Rain      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 1/10/2012 9:17:00 AM

'I would like Sanja to read about some people , family members she hasnt seen and also remember the days she spent with those she is living with.  Some of these people are the ones I had best times with.  Shall start posting incidents , thoughts on them as and when possible.'

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The ending and the beginning

Author : Varsha aka Rain      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 1/6/2012 5:10:00 AM

'The ending of 2011 - The year it was - Okay with many ups and downs .Ups:Sanja started school. She is learning new stuffs good and some not so good stuff. But the very good stuff overweigh the not-so good stuff. I am back to studying. S business slowly picking up . Were able to take vacation twice - to Munnar and Goa.Part payment of home loans.Experimenting with dishes at home. Gaining confidence that I can whip up anything. I  can actually make delicious food.Downs:Work -life (...)'

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Weekend tales

Author : Varsha aka Rain      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 12/12/2011 5:33:00 AM

'Saturday-Got up at 6:30AM - cleaned up the house (sweeping . mopping). Had head bath since we had Karthigai deepam. Then started cooking food.Dishes : Pumpkin pullipu koothu, rasam, raw banana curry, payasam, vadai.Sanja on the other hand was painting some of the new diyas , the newspaper etc..Then snoozed alongwith Sanja.In the afternoon - cleaned up the diyas, helped MIL GMIL with the kadalai orundais.Made maggi for self and Sanja. Sanja put manjal -kumkum on all the diyas. Slef p(...)'

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The school visit

Author : Varsha aka Rain      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 11/7/2011 5:16:00 AM

'So the whole family had a picnic on saturday( Sep 10th) at Sanja montessori school. (Iam almost 2 months late in posting this --ooops)First we visited the temple inside the campus. Then the school van took us to the various places inside the campus.The swimming pools for the big kids and the tiny tots are well maintained .it is good to see that extreme care is taken when they are taught to swim.Then to the kids-friendly park. The swings, sliders , see-saw and whole works .There is a(...)'

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The weekend were we tried new things

Author : Varsha aka Rain      Blog : Rain musings      Date : 11/7/2011 5:03:00 AM

'So what we tried making.1. Pudina parathas2. Yummy healthy samosasAnd both turned out to be gr8.The pudina parathas could have been a bitter more spicy.The samosas were a hit.The vacation form studies does wonders. This is the first weekend after my exams and was left with plenty of time at hands. So tried out these dishes.'

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