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Holi Celebration with Holy(i) Malas

March 5th, 2010

Hope everyone enjoyed celebrating the colourful Holi :) We had a gala time with our LO! In our sect, families with kids (below 3 yrs) celebrate this festival in a special way. We prepare malas (chains) with food items that kids would love to eat and then kids are made to wear these malas during the Holi festival. I prepared the malas with candies, raisins, puffed rice, marsh-mellows and fruit loops. With my busy boy, I couldn’t shop much, so prepared the malas from the stuff that I had at home. The malas came out so well and we adorned our dear son with all these chains. Kutty wore these malas for few minutes (without pulling it) and posed for the camera ;-) Hope Skandhu enjoyed his crafty mom’s tasty malas :)

Candy Mala

Candy Mala

Raisins Mala

Raisins Mala

Pori (Puffed Rice) Mala

Pori (Puffed Rice) Mala

Marshmellows Mala

Marshmellows Mala

Fruit Loops Mala

Fruit Loops Mala

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Our little bundle of joy has arrived!!

October 31st, 2009

By God’s grace and the blessings of all those near and dear, our baby boy was born on October the 14th 2009 at 6:53 pm. Baby Aanand (our bundle of happiness !) and me are back home at Aanand Nivas (our new home) and doing very well. Had a safe normal delivery and a wonderful birthing experience :)

My little handsome man is keeping me busy 24X7 :) Have lots to brag about our darling cutie! Would post them as and when time permits :)

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Our new home !!

July 17th, 2009

Friends I would like to share a happy news from my end. We have moved to our new home :) After a long and tiring house hunting we choose the home which we had yearned for. We had spent nearly 1.5 yrs in the busy (windy) city, now we are really excited about our new serene suburban life :)

Thanks : Clipartheaven.com

Thanks : Clipartheaven.com

For the last couple weeks I was busy packing and clearing the clutter from the old apartment and now have started to unpack and arrange our house. First task was much easier :mrgreen:

Pals, It would take me few days to completely settle down and start blogging again. I would definitely miss all your super recipes… would catch up after I come back :) Keep blogging and have fun ;-)

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Ayan in Sathyam Cinemas Chicago !

April 24th, 2009

A gud news for the Chicagoans! Sathyam cinemas is here :) Its a pity that the theaters in which the Indian films (especially south indian) are screened lacks the state of art technology. After being accustomed to the theaters like Inox, Sathyam, Mayajal etc in Chennai, the desi film theaters in Chicago seemed as booth bungalows :D For the past one year I didn’t watch any Tamil movie at all. To my surprise I came to know that Sathyam Cinemas is here at Downer’s Grove (West suburb Chicago land). As expected the theater was gud. Far better than the ones that I had already been to :D

Ayan - Starring Surya and Tamanna (Credits:tamilsuperhits.com)

Ayan - Starring Surya and Tamanna (Credits:tamilsuperhits.com)

Ayan is Surya’s latest hit (??!!) movie. Surya pairs with Tamanna. She looks beautiful and bubbly too. But the pair lack on screen chemistry! All the romantic scenes are so pathetic :(

Surya plays the role of a courier helping out the smuggler Dass (Prabhu). Kamalesh, the dedut villain tries to surpass Dass in the smuggling business. Surya helps Dass and eventually succors the government (customs) in finding out the smuggling Don Kamalesh.

Stunts are gud! Must appreciate Kanal Kannan for the mind blowing heroic stunts. But one gets bored to see the “Elongated” fight sequences (especially the stunt scenes in Congo). Innocent people are used to smuggle drugs to Malaysia. Most of the smuggling scenes are total gross and makes us puke :(

Cinematography is gud. We get to see lots of new places in the Songs. They are really a treat to our eyes. Most of the songs are unnecessarily included in the film! Its shocking to hear that the music is composed by Harris. (Avasarathula tune potaru pole!!) All the songs carry almost the same beat and I felt I have heard the tunes before!

I liked Jagan as Surya’s friend. One can easily make out that he is the spy sent by Kamalesh to dig the secrets of the smuggler Dass. But the director throws the suspicion on hearing impaired Karunas (Dass’s gangmen). This film has given a new villain Akashdeep! He irritates us to the core. (Well that is what a villain is supposed to do :D ) He is the same “Ansh Gujral” from the famous Hindi soap “Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi”. Anyone who had watched this serial would promptly make out who the new villain is :D

Ayan Villain - Akashdeep Saigal (Credits:tamil.galatta.com)

Ayan Villain - Akashdeep Saigal (Credits:tamil.galatta.com)

During the shoot, an interesting event took place involving Akashdeep. When he entered the sets, initially nobody recognized him and he was mistaken to be a character artist. But on the fourth day of the shoot, when it was shot in Sowcarpet, he was mobbed by people living in that locality and traffic came to a standstill the moment he stepped out of his car! All the North Indians in that area are very familiar with the actor’s TV serials; they wanted only his autograph, not Suriya’s. Perhaps this was the first time Suriya had to face such a situation in Chennai. It was only after this incident that the entire crew realized how popular Akashdeep is. K.V. Anand was finally convinced that he had selected the right person for the villain’s role. [Source: tamil.galatta.com]

Heard that Ayan is gonna be dubbed in Telugu as “Veedokkade” and is scheduled to be released on 1st week of May. On the whole Surya in Ayan, couldnt remind us “Anbu Selvan” (Kakka Kakka) or “Sanjay Ramasamy” (Ghajini)! This film can be watched for its cinematography and super duper stunts!

PS: The poster of Ayan featuring Surya has been put up in New Jersey metro railway station. Commuters have been attracted by this. This is the first in Tamil cinema history; a Tamil film poster is displayed in America :) [Source: tamilwire.com]

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Paper Craft - Wall Hanging

March 27th, 2009

I am excited today :) First let me thank dear friend Anu Sriram. She has motivated me to participate in the paper crafts event conducted by Shama.

Participation is always fun. So here I present my paper crafts. The first one is made using a magazine. I was very much interested in the paper wall hanging posted at Craftstylish, that I tried the same.

Paper Craft

Paper Craft

Paper Wall Hanging

Paper Wall Hanging

Fold either side of pages in the triangular shape as shown. Then fold the bottom part as a triangle again. (As shown by the fold mark). Beautiful wall hanging is ready!

Paper Craft using magazine

Paper Craft using magazine

I am also sending the Quilling Ganesha to this contest.

Quilling Ganesh

Quilling Ganesh

Happy Ugadi/Gudi Padwa!

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