Saving Habit….

We must start to teach the saving habit to Kids at early stage itself… I also used to have an Undiyal (money box) for my son. Nowadays money box are available in variety of attractive designs.

I bought a money box which has a pot (kalasam) in the bottom, above which contains a coconut and a parrot is seated on the top.  It’s so traditional…  It’s covered by white cement at the bottom. So, whenever it is filled, we can collect the money from bottom. And also, again we can cover it for our reuse….

I even written his name on it in the front and in the back I have written the day on which we have started… Iam so happy that we have started on Sangadahara Sathurthi (very special day for Lord Ganesh)…

When any guest who’s visiting us, gave money to my son, I used to put in this money box. Also, I taught my son the same. If he receives any money, he will go near to our pooja shelf and asks us to lift him up, so that he can see the money box. He will tell the money box as “Kille” (we say in Tamil as kille for birds). I must maintain this habit to him even in future….

Also, I have an idea to buy something useful for him from that money… So that, I can encourage him by saying “it’s from your saving money”. Surely, he will think to save more without spending to buy something huge…

Actually, all these credits go to my neighbour sister… She only got this idea for her son… Good things, wherever it comes, we have to follow it…

Once a very big fan of Harry Potter….

Harry Potter is a series of seven novels written by a British Author J.K. Rowling. I was a huge fan of Harry Potter during my college days….

After watching first movie “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, I used a stick (to pretend it to be a wand) to put a spell on table fan like “Wingardium Leviosa”…. My mom was little bit shocked of my reaction… Then I told her to relax, that iam that much involved in that movie…. Even, I got dreams of becoming a student in Hogwards School…

The way I explained this story to my friend, has made her a fan of Harry Potter… In hostel, I used to read about 100 pages a day in an eager to know what happens next…

In this first snap, that paper clip was given by my bro as my birthday gift… He knows it very well, that I would be much happy by seeing that… That’s absolutely true… Even now (though he’s in London), he informed me that he had watched the latest film of Harry Potter…

I was just crazy that I started to collect advertisement clips from paper…. Now thinking of this, iam getting laughter of how crazy was iam….

Iam now busy with my family responsibilities, especially taking care of my kid. So, didn’t find time to collect like this. After reading the final novel, my eagerness was gone…

Iam sure that I will share this to my son in future, particularly to know his reaction… My hubby used to laugh and started kidding at my collections….

If you have something like this…. Please, feel free to share here….

Cousin’s B’day Celebs…

Yesterday was my cousin’s birthday. He’s in 7^th standard.  So, we decided to go out for dinner. We went to a nearby small Hotel….

We had Vegetable Soup, Chicken briyani, Chicken gravy, Prawn roast, Chicken lollipop and Vegetable rice…

We really had a great time…. I felt a little bit trouble with my son…. But its okay, he enjoyed a lot having Chicken lollipop….

Our Saraswathi Pooja (Ayutha Pooja)…

Saraswathi is the Goddess of knowledge, arts, science, music and technology. Saraswathi pooja is celebrated during Navaratri (September-October). Navaratri means Nine Nights. The ninth day is Saraswathi pooja celebrated along with Ayutha pooja (the worship of weapons and implements including machines) i.e. from small knife to a big vehicle….

At this day, people will clean their houses, cycles, bikes, cars… and decorate with sandal, kungumam, flowers... During the worship, they place their books and some kitchen utensils in front of the Goddess. It is considered that the Goddess herself is blessing the books and other items. I placed just 2 or 3 books and some utensils as i was afraid of my son... He will pick sharp items....

But the actual celebrations continue during the 10th day which is considered as Vijaya Dashami or the Victorious Tenth Day….

Our Life….

We know, flower and nature have different wonderful colours that we even can’t imagine… By viewing them, our heart gets lighten and our mind will be empty from worries…

Similarly, when we are playing with a child, hearing their language, we almost feel like, we became a child…. forgetting all our responsibilities, surrounding issues, etc….

Childhood life is filled with so much fun and has no burdens…. Oh God, if we became a child, then how good it will be…..

Life is like a road, for some people it’s a smooth drive, for some other it’s a rough drive… Even in rough life, there will be some fun… If we adopted to enjoy that, then life will be so happy…

Kanipakam Temple….

This is my 25^th post. So, I thought to tell something about my very favourite God Lord Ganesha (Vinayaka)…

Kanipakam is a small village in Chittoor district on the bank of Bahuda River. In the word Kanipakam, “Kani” means wetland and “Pakam” means flow of water into that wetland.

The story of the temple says that there were three brothers each one had a handicap. One was dumb, one was deaf and one was blind. They lived by irrigating a small piece of land. For that they used to get water from a well using Piccota system. One day the well got dried up. So they started to dig it. While doing, one had hit a stone like formation. He was shocked to see blood oozing out from it. Within few seconds, the entire water turned into red colour.

Thus, startled by this divine sight, all the three became normal getting rid of their deformities. When villagers came to know about this miracle, they dig deep and found a swayambhu idol of Lord Vinayaka emerged from the swirling water. Ultimately they offered many number of coconuts with all prayers- modesty kneeling before the new idol. The indication of this led to the modification in the usage of the Tamil word "Kaniparakam" and later pronounced as Kanipakam.

Even now, the idol is in the original well and the springs of the well are perennial and the eternal. During the rainy season, the holy water from the well overflows even today. 

Another striking and strange feature of the idol is that it is still growing in size. At present, we can see the knees and the abdomen of the idol. Smt. Lakshmamma, an ardent devotee had offered a 'Kavacham' (Armour) to the Lord, fifty years ago but today it is out of size and doesn't fit the idol. The holy water from the well is offered to the devotees as theertham. 

When my brother came in leave from London during this March 2011, we went to Kanipakam for my son’s first head shave. We even named my son after Lord Ganesha.  Actually, my son’s name is Sri Avaneesh in that Sri denotes “Sri Sai Ram” and Avaneesh denotes “Lord Ganesha”. We were so happy to name him. Enjoy the Snaps…

Two snaps were my little one with my bro…

After, we visited a nearby Lord Shiva temple. It’s under construction. Still, we got some snaps…

Some Sweet Memories...

I thought to post some of my snaps from my album. As it is very old, i tried to take it from my mobile. So please adjust with that as am not that much expert in it....

This is me.. when i was 1 and half years old... took in Bangalore...

These two were taken in Assam (as my father was an army person). In this snap, my brother is wearing my chain and anklets....

Actually, i was playing with an umbrella... All of a sudden, i opened it, when they took this snap...

This snap was taken in Delhi when we went for a tour with families.....

This was in our home in Delhi.... I used to steal this snap from my brothers album and once he founds this, he will steal it from my album... This continued for years... Now, he allowed me to keep this...

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