Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 9:53PM Wishing you a very happy Tamizh new year!
இனிய புத்தாண்டு நல்வாழ்த்துகள்!!
Love
Daddy, Mommy, Grandma and the Matching Salwar Girls
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Jr., Tamizh, happy new year, indian dress, little one, photoblog Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 10:22PM Wishing you all a very happy Tamizh new year!
இனிய புத்தாண்டு நல் வாழ்த்துக்கள் !!
Thanks to the Natesan's for giving them "matching" dresses for their Birthday!
Today's dressing session brought back memories of me and my brother, when we were the same age!
Wait, if you are thinking.. "oh so cute. Sundar and his brother must have worn matching outfits as kids!", you are way off base. There is only some truth to it!
When we were kids, our family went through tough times because my dad who worked in the insurance business was going through a labor strike. He did not have many choices. It was either sit at the picket line and forego pay or be ostracized. He chose picket lines, and that meant no pay! So we moved out of our big rental house to a small asbestos roofed shed the entire year of my 3rd grade(3rd standard!).
Naturally, there were no new clothes and we would end up getting new school uniforms stiched for diwali and no new clothes on our birthday. Somehow our parents made us understand what we were going through. For the next two three years, they were making a slow comeback, and that meant identical clothes for the two boys!
They would take us to Bombay Dyeing shop in Luz Corner and buy the same cloth by the meter and invariably ask the question "how much for him and how much for the little guy?". My brother and me would protest, take my parents to opposite ends of the shop to pick different patterns but invariably economics would take over. For a long time I used to see those books on my dad's shelf which said "Macro Economics - by Taylor" and would think that the guy at Art Land Tailors in Luz corner wrote those books!
Same pattern, same clothes and worse for my brother, he would get my hand me downs, which meant he would end up wearing the same pattern for another year or two. The horror! For some reason the parents, the relatives and even family friends would think this was "cute". Hopefully we were really cute, and they weren't laughing behind our backs. The phase finally came to an end, when I went to high school and my brother was as tall as me and eventually became taller than me. He was probably praying every day for some miracle by which the matching outfit, hand me down horror would end and was glad that it did.
Today it was so different watching the two girls, so happy to be wearing the same dress. Guess that is one of those things where, girls are different from boys!
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Tamizh, dressing up, happy new year, matching, outfits, tamil Monday, December 31, 2007 at 11:18PM Last year we went through Route 1 to Solvang and back. We loved it so much that this year, we decided to go through, a little farther till Santa Barbara, and see spots we missed last time.
A short summary of it in pictures. Pictures, that speak a lot more than my words!!Some of these composite stitch shots, were taken from 10-32 pictures, and may be large and have long download times!!
A stop at Point Lobos (thanks to a colleague who suggested some real nice places that are not visited by most, especially China Cove.. we had our own private beach for an hour or two). It was unforgetable.
Sunset at San Simeon..
A visit to the Mission at Santa Barbara (lot of history).
The Botanical Gardens on the mountains of Santa Barbara
A panoramic view of the entire coastal city from the Courthouse
Letting the kids play on a playground on the beach
Captain Don's pirate ship cruise to watch Sea Lions and around Pelican Island at Stearns Wharf
A night at Pismo Beach and a room with a view ..
Oh what a room and what a view!! The rooms in this hotel must have been the source of many a "lets get married", "lets make babies" or even some "never mind that divorce we were talking about"... Oh what a room and what a view...
Getting back to the topic, a great trip!!!
As I try valiantly to complete this post amidst blogger errors, drinking Apple-Pear Cider with near and dear ones, pausing our blockbuster rental midway to catch the fireworks on TV at midnight..
I think.. little will change in 2008.. or who knows what the future holds for us?
Have a wonderful 2008!
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2008, Trip, happy new year, route 1 Friday, April 13, 2007 at 9:37PM Wishing everyone a happy Tamizh New Year.
The Tamil (Tamizh) calendar follows a sixty year cycle (like the 12 year cycle for the Chinese years). This year is Sarvasithu.
Happy new year to everyone or as they say in Tamizh "Iniya puththaandu Nal Vazhthukkal!".
Hope this year brings us a better world (an end to the Iraq war, the whole world embracing green technology, solar panels on top of every PTC bus in Chennai, no traffic jams in Cupertino, etc. etc.............). Needless to say, there are wish lists on the personal front, but I will keep those to myself! at least for now.
Looks like the New Year is indeed starting off on a brighter note!
A lot better than our previous attempt!
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