Wednesday, June 29, 2011

16-Jun-2011: Aditi Anjay @ LKG 'A' Section!!

It is 16th June 2011. Though it may not mean a lot to you all but it was a moment to cherish for Anu and I as Aditi started her academic year in LKG class. Yes, this is the day Aditi went to her LKG class after being promoted from Pre-KG. So for another year, it is going to be Aditi Anjay, LKG 'A' Section, PSBB LLA, Bangalore :)

Wanted to share with you all on how her first week into LKG went. Few weeks back we went to pay the fees (hope most fo you all, by now, know how big hole it makes in your pocket!!!) and got her books, shoes and uniform. This is the first time she is gonna wear uniform in PSBB (earlier she wore uniform in when she was going to Apple Kids) as for pre-kg there was no uniform and it was a big challenge for us on choosing a dress daily. Now we dont have that challenge hihihihihihiiiii. She tried the uniform there.


The day before her first day in LKG, took her to a studio near by and took passport size foto for her ID card.


Aditi seems to say that she is going to go to PSBB school for the 2nd year:

And thats Aditi in her full attire with her ID Card minus school bag:


Eager to know what is in store for her at school - new teacher, few new friends, new location and things like that. With her mom inside our apartment (only to those who know tamil: சிங்க நடை போட்டு song in the background :)):

We waited sometime for her school bus. It came around 8.45am and we followed it to the school and were waiting around the entrance to the KG section. There was an Aunt and a teacher in the bus. Along with them, the driver helped in getting the kids from the bus and took them to their respective classes. Aditi seen standing in the line with all the kids from that bus.


Now she marches towards her class :)

She had to cross a small Vinayakar Temple (to her right) inside the campus

before entering into the KG section - that's Anjay clicking the KG section.

Come on, let us enter to have a peek into the KG section.

Aditi's class is in the first floor. She need to take the step and come to the right corner in the foto for her LKG 'A' section class.

We met her class teacher and then came home. In the afternoon, went to pick her up from the school bus and waited for quite a long time as expected since it was the first day and know it would be a mess there in school before the buses started. Her bus came almost after an hour's wait at 1.30 pm. We could see her smiling on seeing us from the bus while few kids were asleep (you cant expect them to be awake since they leave so early in the morning.)

Once she got down, she immediately opened her school bag and showed us what they did on the first day. A craft item with a "welcome" on it. She told her madam asked them to do the sticking.

And a closer look at what she had in her hand:

Exactly a week later she got the first "star". She told that her madam gave it to those who colored nicely and posed with the star in her hand:

This is juz what happened during her first week into the LKG. Hoping to share a few more in the days to come. Till then, tata bye bye :)

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Recognition.

The below blog, "Mixed Emotions - Happiness and Sadness!!!", I posted on IndiBlogger a few months back has been recognized as one of the Top 20 blogs.

You can check the same on the Indiblogger site. I have taken a snapshot of the above page:


I have included the IndiBlogger's IndiRank widget in this blog:

Clicking the widget will take you to the post "Mixed Emotions - Happiness and Sadness!!!"

Your feedback/comments please :)

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

16-Jun-2011: My blog made it to Top 20 on Indiblogger

Hope few of you might remember about me telling about the blog I posted on IndiBlogger few months back. Yesterday I received a mail stating that my IndiRank is 20 for the post "Mixed Emotions" . You can check the same on the Indiblogger site. I have taken a snapshot of the above page:


I have included the IndiBlogger's IndiRank widget on my blog . Clicking the widget on my blog will again take you to the post "Mixed Emotions" .

Your feedback/comments please :)

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Mixed Emotions - Happiness and Sadness!!!

I feel I should share a moment where I felt the opposite feelings together - Happiness and Sadness. Yeah, it was Diwali time and it is needless to say that it is the time for gala celebrations from North to South irrespective of where you are located. Before moving on to describing the moment I would like to tell a few lines on Diwali and happenings during the festival.

And the debates like "should we really fire crackers? " or "is buying crackers a waste of money?" or "crackers are nuisance and cause of a noise pollution" or in any other context will happen if not at a bigger level, it will happen between your friends and close ones.

So what exactly Diwali mean? For me its time to relax, enjoy, feel happy, have sweets and many many other sweet things you can think of. Even few of my friends (for that matter my better half ) would say "is this the age to fire crackers?" or "I have not liked it even during my younger days". Is there any specific age or some cut-off for anything - not only for firing crackers? It is perfect as long as one likes to do it. So if one does not like to do it, so be it. That does not mean they should expect others to follow them as well.

I know some of you must be feeling a bit jittery about the .Hope, after reading the content below, you will agree to why I was elaborating it above.

It was that momentous Diwali day. It started as it had in the previous years. We got up early and had oil bath (maybe not like the usual bath, at-least we had oil applied all over the body :)). After having some eatables, we started firing crackers - almost all types starting from Bijili, Lakshmi crackers, Sparrow/ crackers, atom bombs to garland crackers - in the morning. We were so happy and so immersed in firing that we seldom noticed the lads watching it around the corner.

When I was about to fire a garland cracker, I went to that corner and found a few lads watching at us. I asked them
"what are you doing here?"
And got the immediate response "watching you fire crackers".
"Why are you not doing it? Go and fire crackers"
"We don't have crackers at home"

For a moment, I was lost. I called them, after some hesitance, they came and I gave few crackers which we have bought and asked them to fire it either here or at their home. They started firing them near our place itself. Maybe their parents would not feel good or the lads might be punished for getting the crackers from outsiders.

Whatever it might be, I was more than happy at the moment for seeing them firing crackers happily and at the same time felt really sad for the lads who could not spare for few crackers. I know few lads might come just like that to have extra crackers. But I felt that was not the moment to validate if the lads were really not having crackers or they wanted extra. When I watched them fire the crackers so happily, it instilled a little more happiness in me on that auspicious day.

Let anybody say anything - its a waste of time and money, noise pollution etc. I felt that if I can make a few lads happy by giving a little percentage of what I had, I am content and happy. So at-least for few such kids, I buy crackers every year without fail. Hope some of you are upto this already. Thanks guys.

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Friday, January 14, 2011

15-Jan-2011: பொங்கல்!!

இத்தைத்திருநாளில்
கதிரவனை நமஸ்கரித்து
மஞ்சளும் கரும்புமான அலங்காரத்துடன்
ஆண்டவனை உளமுருக வேண்டி
பானை வழிய பொங்கவிட்டு
பொங்கலோ பொங்கலென கொண்டடுவதைப்போல

சந்தோசங்கள்
உறவுகள்
செல்வங்கள்
வாய்ப்புகள்
அனைத்தும் மென்மேலும் பொங்கி வழிய
எனது உளமார்ந்த வாழ்த்துக்கள்!!!!

Monday, November 8, 2010

08.Nov.2010: நானாக நான் இல்லை...

பட்டாசு தயாரிக்க குழந்தைகளை
உபயோக படுத்தியதை எதிர்த்து வாங்காமலிருப்பதா? - இல்லை

பட்டாசு தயாரித்த குழந்தையின்
உழைப்பு வீண் போகாமலிருக்க வாங்குவதா? - இல்லை

பட்டாசு வெடிக்க ஆவலாக இருக்கும்
என் குழந்தையின் ஆசைக்காக வாங்குவதா? - இல்லை

பட்டாசு வாங்காது போனால் தவிக்கும்
என் குழந்தையின் தவிப்பை போக்க வாங்குவதா?

வாங்குவதா? வேண்டாமா? புரியவில்லை ...
ஆனால் ...

நானாக நான் இருப்பதொன்றும் அவ்வளவு
எளிதல்ல என்பது மட்டும் புரிந்தது.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

08.Nov.2010: தீபாவளி(லி??)!!!

தீபாவளி அன்று யார் வீட்டின் முன்
நிறைய பட்டாசு காகிதங்கள்
என்று தெருவில் வேடிக்கை பார்த்தபடி
சென்றனர் இரு சிறுவர்கள்...

தான் வெடித்தது தான் அதிகம்
என்ற சந்தோஷத்தோடு ஒருவன்
அவன் வீட்டினுள் ஓடுகையில்...

இன்னொருவன் முன்னவனை விட சந்தோஷத்தோடு
தனது சாக்குமூட்டையை திறந்தான் -
அந்தக் காகிதங்களை அள்ளுவதற்கு!