Everything happens together

In everyone's daily life, something will either happen many a times together or will not happen at all. When you wait at the bus stop for a particular route, you wont get any bus for half an hour to that route. Suddenly, four or five buses will come one after the other to the same route.

Now, this season is full of Treats and Marriages. So many treats and functions happened in the last month. For the treats, it started with my friend senthil's(not me). He got engaged and going to get married. so he gave a treat to me and madhan. And, my birthday treat went, one to my college friends and another to my office colleagues. The very next day I gave treat to my office colleagues, it was my PL's promotion treat. one day later, i was suppose to get treat from another friend Aravinth. It got cancelled somehow. And on this monday, got a treat from Abhilash as he is moving out to a different company. Again this thursday, we are joining for a treat to give it to him.

About the marriages and engagement., it started with my college friend LUX (Lakshmi prasad)'s engagement. Met few of my fellow college friends there. Yuvaraj came to invite for his marriage. Unfortunately, i could not attend his marriage as i was busy in the office and couldnt take leave. And even Thennarasu came to invite for his sister's marriage. couldnt attend that too. Then came my office friend Senthil's engagement. He kept the function at a remote place in ECR near palavakkam.

Then our office SUT mate Dhana's marriage. It was like a get to gether to meet many of my SUT friends. Another thing made the occasion so special and you know what i am talking about.. its a girl :-) . There was a pretty interesting girl in the marriage hall, who was moving here and there. I just looked at her and she too at times :-) and the fun ended as soon as we left the marriage hall. Then, I attended my college and office friend Arul jothi's engagement. Had got a chance to meet many of my college friends after a very long time. And the recent one is Muraly's wedding reception. He too kept his reception at a remote place somewhere near tambaram. one more office colleague invited for his marriage and i couldnt attend it.

Still few more marriages to attend. For all those Betrothal functions, I attended, need to attend for marriage/reception too. So, will be attending Lux's marriage, Aruljothi's marriage and Senthil's marriage. Apart from that, I also have my SUt mate Kiran's sister's marriage and Rijith's marriage. Might get some more surprising invitations as well :-)

Birthday celebrations !!!

Well, after a long time, am back to write blogs. I had many things in my mind to write in the blogs but was lazy to write all the time.

February 26, my birthday, and its very special this year, being my 25th birthday. This was one of the memorable birthday and it went colourfully. Had celebrations with office friends, college friends and ofcourse with my family members. And to my surprise, I had to cut three cakes for my birthday. First one was at office. I got a nice birthday gift from the office colleagues and a colourful cake to share. You can find the picture of cake below.



Second cake at home. I think this is the first time i get a big cake to cut at home. earlier they used to buy in pieces. The third one was at Beach :) . I went with my college friends(around 12 people i think) to the movie Kalvanin kadhali first. The movie was kind of ok. one of our friends, vijayan has bought the tickets for previous day instead of that day and we went inside the theatre too. Then we realised and bought new tickets. After the movie, we went to beach and there I was given the cake to cut. This is a new experience. First time to cut birthday cake at beach !!! and earlier it was planned to cut inside the theatre :-) since it might disturb the public, we withdrew it. After relaxing in beach, it was time for treat. So, we assembled at hotel Ranjith, rooftop restaurant. The treat was shared by four of us. Other three are Divakar, Gopi and vijayan who all sponspored for their abroad trips and me for my birthday.Overall, the day went well with lots of fun and enjoyment. Unfortunately, none of my very close friends were here this time except sasi. But still, it went too good.

Just got reminded about few of my previous years celebrations. Again going nostalgic :-). Last year, I celebrated with my closest friends Kumaran and Ravi. I was there in Ravi's room in the night to cut the cake. Ravi's room mate sridhar also celebrated his birthday. His birthday was some two or three days before mine and we celebrated together.

Another birthday to remember was during my final year of college. It was very late in the night to cut cake. My close friends had bought lot of cakes, like three boxes i think. Actually, on 25th there was campus interview at our college. Polaris came and recruited. I had to involve in placement activities till night and then attended a big treat from andappa, another friend who got placed on that day. I became sick on that day and after birthday celebrations, i was almost exhausted. The very next day in our college, there was a seminar which again I had to organise. I didnt have energy that day., i even vomitted in the morning due to ill health. so I gave the responsibility to my friend Karthik to take care of seminar and went to hospital with another friend Lux. The doctor said, i have to get admitted and we some how convinced the doctor just to get an injection and left.

The most memorable and happiest birthday was during my third year of college. During my birthday time, I was undergoing a camp organised by NSS (National service scheme). The camp was at a small school in a village nearby our college. The school was not properly maintaned and its a government one. mostly poor people were only studying. We took some classes on computers there and we painted the whole school. I got a lot of friends who are little kids :) . I still remember two or three kids who got very close to me. I celebrated my birthday there and distributed chocolates there. All the kids were really happy to have chocolates and i was like very very happy to see that. I would say, that was my happiest birthday i ever had. Before college, there were many birthdays went unnoticed.

And about friends birthdays in the recent days, Sasi's birthday fell on april 9th. I tried calling him on 8th night 12'O clock by all means. I am very unlucky that day.. couldnt reach him :( either on his mobile and on his home number. poor guy lost his mobile. I just sent him an email. And on 19th April, my chat friend Rjalakshmi celebrated her birthday. Again, i tried to reach her by various means. Even the mails did not reach her.. it bounced back. I could not convey her my wishes ever :(

Capturing history - Rare photos from India's past

Got this photos from a fwd mail. Just thought of keeping it in my blogs :-)


The daughter of an Indian maharajah seated on a panther she shot, sometime during 1920s. This picture and the others in this series appear in a new book, 'India Then and Now', by Vir Sanghvi and Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Roli Books, India. Pictures courtesy: Roli Books.




A throwback from the Raj: A British man gets a pedicure from an Indian servant.



The Grand Trunk Road, built by Sher Shah Suri, was the main trade route from Calcutta to Kabul. Here, transport leaves Ambala for Delhi.




A group of dancing girls. Dancing or nautch girls began performing at courts around 1830. They were known for their elaborate costumes and jewellery.




A rare aerial view of the president's palace and the parliament building in Delhi, both designed by architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker.




Women gather at a party in Mumbai (Bombay) in 1910, a sign that women were very much part of the social scene in many respects.




A group from Vaishnava, a sect founded by a Hindu mystic. His followers are called Gosvami-maharajahs and own several temples.




An aerial view of Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi, built between 1650 and 1658 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.






The Imperial Airways 'Hanno' Hadley Page passenger airplane carries the England to India air mail, stopping in Sharjah to refuel.