India Shopping

I thought I would go shopping for my India trip.I am leaving September end and coming back by November Thanks Giving time.I was calling up my inlaws and my parents to find out what they wanted.Ellarum kaieduthu kumbuttu....Please aala viduma.neenga vango bathrama appdinu solitta..Anyway all they wanted was 15 Bengay(namma ooru iodex mathiri) and Post Banana cereal.Che nattula ennoda shopping ipdi aaiduthe....I could just realise how old everyone is getting over there.
My patti doesnt eat pathu samajaram before finishing her Jebam.She is 85 now and couldnt tolerate hunger.Puli pasichalum pulla thingathungra mathiri she doesnt eat any Pathu(cooked ,t be specific steamed,boiled) items..So avalukkaga cereal.She likes to soak it in milk and eat.Then all muttu vali case .Avalukkaga Bengay.One thing is for sure this time,My India trip is mainly visiting all the people in my husbands side and my appammas side who are really getting old.Being miles away any news thats is not good news about your loved ones puts me totally down.
I am waiting for my trip .It would be fun meeting all the oldies and hear all the stories and the way they describe our childhood and lots of precious memories.We are having a diwali blast at Umayalpuram(my husbands place) with all his 50 cousins coming and all my people joining there.Its sure going to be fun

Bayanthangolli

I hate Sundays for obvious reasons.Yesterday woke up late and again slept at around 12 in the noon.Evening went to our friends house.They were just back form India.She had got all the delicious homemade snacks and she packed quite some for us.They have bought a new home and its a new construction.We went there and my husband dropped me at home on the way back and he went to pick up our car from their house.It was 9 in the night and I am hearing some strange noise in the patio.Someone was trying to open my patio door.I have never experienced such feeling previously.The feeling of someone breaking into my house.I called up my husband and I am turning back to see my kid next to the door.It just shocked me as my imaginations were going wild like someone would shoot through the door.I tried to grab her and out of curiosity peeped out of the window a little bit and I saw a person walking away from the door.I felt little bit relieved and was waiting to catch a glimpse of the person and found the face familiar.It was Akila.She had come to keep kozhakattai which she made yesterday.Since I was not answering (I was upstairs) she had tried to open the patio door and keep the package.It was hillarious...When my husband got back ,he was making fun of me.Good I dint call up the police.
My new nick name at home "Bayanthangolli Pakoda"..The rest goes like "Kezhangi(as I love potatoes),"Pothu"(my dad calles me that way),"Echu Korathi "(by my patti as I like to grab what ever she eats from her plate and she is very madi acharam types) ,"Shankari"(Sakumbothu shankara shankarnngra mathri Exams munnala than padippen.So ponnungrathaala Shankari appdinu engappa koopduvar)..The list goes on and on..........

Zandu Balm

I need Zandu Balm.Ore Suluku kazhuthula and I am not able to type anything.Ellam Garage clean panrennu izhuthu vittundathu.We had a microwave oven in our old apartment and when we got a new home We had one attached to the cooking range.So put the older one in the garage.Iniku atha thookarannu kazhutha sulukindutten.Ithula vedikkai ennanna I had done this earlier and ithe mathiri sulukirukku.Again same mistake

When I attended the interview, companyoda director kettan..What do you think about making mistakes appdinu.Nan thillumullu Rajini styllela"My dad tells me,You can do the same mistake only once.Dont repeat the same mistake and learn from your mistakes" appdinu perisa Mary vitten.And I was so happy about my answer.Ipo antha director enna paathu kai kotti sirikkara mathri iruku :-(

Thamizh

Had been to my friends place yesterday.Trying to meet all my friends this week since I am free.Was quite impressed to see their grown up kids talk in azhagana Thamizh.Infact she is from Trivandrum and her husband is from Madurai.The most impressive part was seeing the kids talk in both the dialects.They are here for 10 years now.This family is the odd one out .
All the rest of the families I have seen here somehow fail to make their kids talk in Thamizh.

In school they get to talk in English.Atleast at home we can put in our efforts to talk in thamizh.The only thing we need to do is communicate to them in our language and not English.I am not against English or any other language.I respect the language and feel it is because I learnt English I am here .The explanations I hear people give for not talking to their kids in thamizh

1.She gets confused with too many languages.

2.Athu automatica english thanga vaila varuthu

3.Inga ellarume athane pesaranga .Let him learn only that

4.Aiyo nan evlavo try panren ana somehow I end up talking in English.I think officela appdiye pesi veetuliyum varathu.

The explanation goes on and on.May be all the above reasons are very much true .I dont argue regarding that.

Talk to them in your mother tongue .If they dont respond to you in that donot reply.When they are small it is easy to mend them.Let them be American citizens,but they are of Indian origin.
Language and our culture are the roots of our country.Please allow your kids to inherit that.Be proud of your country,your mother tongue and the rich culture .


Mannikkavum lecture kuduthathukku.By the way ennoda Interview Puttukichu.They got one more person who had 3 years more experience than me.So the job hunting goes on........

Vettying

Yesterday had the third round.dint go well.Luck iruntha kedaikkum...illatti oothals than

Watched kana kandein today.A nice movie.For a change yaarum romba overacting pannalai.I liked Prithvi raj a lot.He was sisters senior at school.And my sister is just 20.So paianuku 21 vayasuthan.He had done a good job.

Its nice to have a weeks break with my kid.But dont know if I would like it this way.Mandaia pichukkalam pola irukum.And I think it is so because its USA.I feel Indiala nanna pozhuthu pogum.pakkathaathla kaapi podi kekka varuva.Keera kaari kooda arattai adikkalam.Thanni vararathatha pathi polambalam.Koyya pazha kaarantta okanthu 50 paiasavuku Peram pesalam.Pookaari kudukkara oru muzha poovuku kanaku pathu kammi irukunu sanda podalam(pizza hutla poi 100 roova kudukkarathuku valikkaathu.Pisaathu poo kadakkaari kitta than namma jabardasthu ellam)Munthina naal serial miss panninathu okkanthu mathyanam repeat pakkalam.Velakkari kitta pakkathaathu vambu kekkalam.In short u get to talk with people.Here life is too mechanical but for saturday sundays.Waiting to get back to work soon.

Dead Tired

Today is my last day in the present company.And I hardly have any time.I am slogging right from the morning.And one of my peers here came and asked me.You look Dead tired.Appdinna "Pona Tired","Setha Tired" Appdinna????
How does a dead body know if tis tired or not.Athan sethache.Illa how can anyone experience what death is?Onnume puriala.Illa nee setha mathri irukkenu arthama.So please enlighten me on this
And today Varlakshmi Nonbu,Avaniavattam all went fine.Kesari,Kozhakkatais,payasam,idli,sambar,beans curry,appam ,thenga satham.........had a full meal.Officela okkantha thookam than varuthu.Now what would they tell me "Pig Tired"???

Oothikichu Postponed

Dont understand what is happening.They called me today and said I cleared this round and they need one more round.Another 3 hours thala vali extended.Ellarum Aracha mava than arakkaranga.What do they need?
So Monday have one more round scheduled.So till then Oothikichu postponed.
This is the third round I am attending.Ennai enna presidential candidatekka edukakranga.Ipdi padutharaanga.