Diwali 2011

For the first time me n hubby hand painted the Diyas for Diwali.. Felt very nice and we want to continue this tradition for the coming years, Also this time we had purchased a Mysore silk saree for MIL but FIL refused to take anything,... Frankly we also couldn't shop for ourselves for the festival this time.. Hope to buy new clothes in the coming yrs for Diwali...

26th Oct 2011 was Lakshmi Pooja @ home, here @ In Laws house Lakshmi pooja is celebrated grandly, we purchase a new saree and tie it to goddess Lakshmi and then we use the saree for ourselves...

Since Lakshmi Pooja was in the evening I thought I have loads of time in hand to do the cooking, decoration and the Pooja on time.. but I was wrong... This is how my day went 

Got up at 8:45 am had Puri usli for breakfast and went out to market for buying flowers, fruits, sweets and Saree for the goddess..I had bath soon so that I could start preparing for the rest of the day..

On the same day both the maid and the cook decided to take Off giving me more work!! :'( 

Poor hubby was running around and asking me what to do, he really helped me a lot, but I wanted him to take rest so sent him to paint the rest of the Diyas..while I prepared Lunch and at the same time started preparing for the pooja items,

Prepared Rice and Sambhaar, Chapathi,  Palya, Butter Milk  for Lunch 

Cooked Lemon rice, beans palya, Milk obbatu (Mom's recipie), Kosambari to offer to goddess while pooja

Cleaned, washed pooja stuff and decorated the place where goddess was supposed to be kept...

By doing all this it was 6:45 PM already... FIL was hurrying and wanted me to go get ready to start the pooja

Hurriedly, Tierdly, swiftly came down took 5 mins of rest in the entire day and then wore a Saree and tried to go up soon... Made everyone sit, got some more items ready for pooja and started the Pooja by lighting the Diya, I was the makeshift poojari for the day (mostly done for all the festivals n I truly enjoy it) 

At the time of Nevedyam Kept all the items prepared in front of god and felt very nice, did Abhishekam to good and finished the pooja at around 8:00..

Me n MIL visited few houses to invite some ladies home... one by one they started coming and we gave them Kumkum and the customary Thambulam, fruits n sweets..

Hubby was behind me and waiting for me so that we can burst the crackers...

How is it possible?? I am not a super women, I can be present @ only 1 place n do few things @ a time.. 

Had invited the SIL and her husband (the younger one) for Dinner.. 

So fireworks was postponed and instead had a Lavish Dinner in a traditional "adike leaf plate"... I love serving especially in the festivals in the traditional order where salt is served first and then pickle etc,, :)

Items for Dinner - Salt, Pickle, beans palya, Kosambari, Tondekai Palya, Lemon Rice, Rice and Simple Rasam, curd, papad and Haal Obbathu for sweet :) I am so proud and patting myself 

Came down @ around 10:30 and watched TV for sometime while hubby slept on my laps.. When I wanted to walk to our bedroom my heels were paining so much that it refused to move an inch.. No exaggeration but it was the FACT...

27th Oct 2011-

Was not a holiday to offc but we had taken off as we had to celebrate pooja for the elders (FIL's parents who have passed away) Traditionally all their fav items mostly Non veg items were prepared for the day, 

After breakfast I had bath so that the yesterday's pooja items had to be removed.. This time for not sure why FIL refused to prepare anything and instead he went to do the pooja alone.. I was not so happy about it and hence made everyone come near the photo (none of them had bath) and we were there when the arti was performed.. Still I was not satisfied, I come from a family where traditions, customs are given importance, Yes I do not prepare/eat/clean Non-Veg, I couldn't prepare it now too, but I wanted to prepare something and offer it to the elders.. I prepared Seemeakki payasam and asked hubby, BIL and MIL to have bath and be ready to perform pooja.. meantime I prepared Rice, chapathi, sambhar n palya for everyone...

We all offered the sweet and performed pooja and had lunch and went to sleep... In the evening burst the crackers and had fun!! Thus was my Diwali this time... :) 

Here are some of the snaps!!

Hand-Painted Diya-1 by hubby

Hand-Painted Diya-2 by Hubby

Hand-Painted Diya-3 by me

Hand Painted Diya-4 by me

Yeay!! This was our First Hand Painted Diyas

Isn't it lovely

Second set of Hand painted Diyas completely by hubby

Goddess Lakshmi ready to offer her blessings

Hey notice our painted Diyas :)

 Us after the Pooja and a Hectic Day- This is how I look when I am tired :(

Posing with Crackers :)

Yippie!! One more Diwali successfully celebrated with hubby darling..

Memories gushing in!!

Today's Date I.e Oct 20th and the Gift in the picture below means a lot to us!!

Exactly on this day 9 years ago, 9 years seem to be so long ago... But the memories are still fresh and will remain fresh in our hearts forever!!


If not for this what would it be?? I keep pondering sometimes!!
Its so true that "Whatever happens, happens for a reason!"  DFJ

pehla pehla pyar hai, pehalee pehalee bar hai
jan ke bhee anjana, kaisa meraa yar hai.......

usakee najar, palko kee chilman se mujhe dekhtee, usakee najar
usakee haya, apanee hee chahat kaa raj kholatee, usakee haya
chhup ke kare jo wafa, aisa meraa yar hai
pehla pehla pyar hai.......

Nauk-Jauk-II

Continuation of our Nauk Jaunk after 1 year of our lives together as husband n Wife-


FB-
Recently I posted the following status in FB.. It may be just a Control C Control V from a friends post, Only because truly I meant every word in this... Hubby is been a sweetheart (Touch wood) very understanding, caring,co-operative...He is always there when I needed him... I just cudnt hv imagined my life without him..


"Happily married Husband and Wife Week-- If your spouse is still your best friend, works extremely hard, has been with you through triumphs and tragedies, who loves you when you're at your worst,you cant imagine your life without them, and whom you are PROUD to be married to, copy and paste this with the date you were married 05/09/2010......."


Enuf of the good stuff, now lemme start listing down the Crazy/Funny/Memorable moments/incidents of our life that can be shared in Public..

Family Extened!

Our Family extended by the introduction of 2 more kids... :( :) not sure which smiley to use...
Now not only I hv snowy n hubby to take care, I hv 2 mopre of snowy's friends, Naalu (puppy) n Moni (Monkey).Hubby is not only happy that snowy has friends to play with but has become a kid himself...
here are some snaps to witness the madness/kiddishness


3 Pranksters playing Cards

 

Moni n Nalu on the special stool















Night walking

Finally I persuaded hubby to take me to a night walk (after dinner). An achievement after 1 year of marriage.
It all lasted for 20 mins.. Felt very refreshing to unwind the day!! It all lasted for 1 day as of now coz daily there is something or the other, either I am tired or he is tired... 
Hopefully we resume n make it a tradition of night walking soon


Activa Incident


Hubby will kill me for revealing this in public...

On a Sunday hubby went with Honda Activa to get something Photocopied, he comes back v tired n angrily tells me - What is this, ur Activa key is not working at all, it doesnt get started"
Me - Y nothing is wrong it was all right, BTW how did u come then?
Hubby- I pushed it along all the while and till I reached home, I am so tired, Ok give me the other key
Me- well let me try...
I went and put the key in the key hole and soon realised that it was not my vehicle that was parked in front of the house...I looked at the number plate and was confirmed..
ROFL....LOL
Me- Hey!!! This is not even my vehicle... wat hv u done?? U hv brought somebody Else's Activa...
Hubby(with a sheepish smile) - Ohhhh is it!!
Immediately he started speaking in his defence -Then how come it allowed me open the Lock
Me- (still ROFL) - I dont know that, You hv stolen somebodies Activa..
Hubby- I better go back n keep it where it was and bring back apna Activa...
Ha ha ha
From that day whenever I see a grey Activa I tell him- Look, Look apna activa go get it!! :) Poor hubby


To-Do-List n WFH
One fine day, actually night hubby declared that he shall WFH(Work from Home) tomorrow as there was not much work and he wanted to kind of rest
Pat came my reply, "Ok then if you are @ home then do Task1, Task2, Task3 and Task4....:p
Hubby- Oyyye Nahin Cahlega, I am WFH not working for home... Its better that I  go to office rather than doing ur To-Do-List ...
BTW, FYI Task 1 and 2 were to get himself a Haircut and a Shave!! :p


Not so Incredible choice!
Uffff I really did a BIG mistake by gifting hubby a "HTC Incredible S" mobile phone...
He hardly takes his eye/mind/attention out from his phone these days.
Leave abt initiating a talk, he hardly responds to me when busy with his phone...
Mummy hardly get to spend time with him (without a mobile phone in his hand/mind)


Not so Incredible choice isnt it... :p

Concentration n Multitasking
Who ever discovered that "Men are poor in Multitasking" is soooooooooo true!!
Hubby just cant multitask, if he is doing one task, be it as simple as going through a news paper, wiping his face, washing his hands, or be it anything under this earth.... he cannot do another task simultaneously at all....
I keep asking something repeatedly, and expect either a Yes or No answer but the answer I get instead is
"Wait I am concentrating on this task in hand"


Cant you talk while cutting a fruit, changing channels in a TV or checking an sms in mobile...Grrrrrrrrrrrr


Playing Cards
Can you believe it... He did not know how to play cards....I taught him to play rummy, taught him the basics that there are a pack of 52 cards 13 or each design... :)  He used to be very slow Zzzzz in playing cards.. sometimes I used to do my other works until he finishes his chance and finishes his turn :p


Scoreboard of our Rummy game


1. He doesn't like me teaching him and says, let me learn it myself
2. He cannot hold 13 cards in the hand int he design of a fan
3. He asks me questions like - "Can we do 6 triplets of same design" for which my answer will be- "We are playing in only 1 pack of cards how can you have the same card number same design" Grrrrr :p


These days he is become a genius, in the past few days he is been winning the games...
Oh BTW he doesn't even gives me credit for me who hv taught him ...
:( poor me
**Scoreboard of one of our rummy games where he Won**

Dad is the Best!


Any easy way to get things done from hubby is by saying "If it was my Dad, he would have done this/that, No one can be like my Dadda"
The Magic Worked!!!

Other day when I was returning from offc, I called up hubby and said "Oh my dad used to get me Masala Dosa/Sprite/a bar of Choc" or something to eat.. esp when I am unwell (when I get my P).. I am sure hubby wanted to prove that he is no less, so by the time I go home I see him in the Kitchen preparing Garam Garam Tea n French Fries!! Yippe the Magic Worked !!!

Chats/Yummy dishes @ home

Whenever we find time we sneak out n hv a Plate of Garam Garam Masala Puri n Pani Poori.... :p
One day after office we met directly met at the chat place, me in my Activa n hubby in his Car.. It was as though we were on a Date!! like those days b4 Marriage. The only difference is that this time we were both heading towards our Home...

Hubby loves home cooked special food, I too love preparing for him whenever I find time..
These days I m making a habbit to prepare one special food a week, already done with Paddu, Udina vada &  Pani pori.. I m hoping to share the recipie + photos in seperate blogs!

Laziness

Hv I become Lazy??? Oh Yeah very much, how?? Influenced by my great hubby...

Demonstration of his laziness:
Give him a Chocolate, the the wrapper is on the floor/table
Give him a Towel to wipe, you find it  thrown on the bed,
He goes to hv bath n the tap is left half open n the entire floor is wet n the water is dripping everywhere
If he is the one who leaves home last, definitely one or the other light is kept ON.
And like always he blames Snowy for all his misdeeds...

Ah but 1 thing he remembers n always does it.. Give Snowy n his frnds a warm place to sit n either give them cards to play, cars to play, cartoon to watch or our warm bed to sleep cozily... Ufffffff

Antakshari

On a Lazy Sunday we played Antakshari.... After a very Long time we sang together... Played Rapid Anthakshari where we pick words form the opponents song n start a new one!! We had great fun!! at one point we felt the neighbours may throw stones too!!

2 realisations

1. I hv forgotten many songs/lyrics and my voice is gone for a TOSS
2. Hubby is too good in remembering old/new all kind of songs/lyrics n his voice is good too

Laptop n his work/concentration

I don't know how ppl WFH, I hate this concept, Home is a place for me to Relax n not work, work, work..
I hate is when he works in his laptop, I feel like talking to him more, asking him as soon as he hold his laptop... n haan when he has his laptop he doesn't respond.. How kool is that?? u keep talking, blabbering, shouting there is no response from the other side... Reason- he is busy concentrating..

Ask him what is he doing wit his laptop, here comes the response always- "I am looking" (Nodtha Iddini)
Arrey I know u are looking, but wat??? R u browsing for fun? Looking at some Info int he net? are hv u started working again!!!! well no response to this @ allll n I walk back fuming.....:(

Nails
Oh there are so many things that I wanna hang in our home, a custom made clock, paintings, photo frames etc... but no I hv still not put it.. why?? hubby had promised me he would put some nails on the wall n give me but some promises are just not kept.. not some there is a list of it though...
I tried it mself but cudnt do it, I also m scared of damaging the walls so gave up, I guess its time I hunt for a Carpenter

SMS/E-mail  and his spelling mistakes Ufffffffffff

Whenever I remember something to do, or hv encountered an interesting place/Thing/info that I hv either seen in the net/read in a blog I draft a big mail, hoping I get a response back...
Mostly there is no response/acknowledgement for the E-Mail and when I go home here is the conversation-
Me- Did u not receive my E-mail today? why there is no response?
Hubby- Ohhh u sent me a mail na, dint I respond??
Me- (Fuming) No Boss
Hubby- Ohhhhh actually I moved it to the ""personal"" folder to read it later" sorry I forgot
Me- I m sure u hv moved it to the Junk folder...
Hubby- No dear I haven't done that... believe me...
** End of Conversation**
OR
Send back a one liner mostly saying
"Yes Kanda lets do it"
"Yes sure"
or just a smile :) for the 2 page E-mail... Grrrrrr

SMS-
Oh the standard response would be Ok, sure, or a smiley again
If he needs to send some SMS it will never be with correct spellings. Reason -Typed in hurry

Some recent examples-

Do you hv our luv numbers
Should Have been- Do you hv our LIC numbers...

Shall we take our Car to Dr maharaja today
Should be- Shall we take our car to RT Nagar today..

Now tell me how to crack this code???

Art Craft Painting.. Time Paaz

From my Childhood I have always seen my mom indulge in one or other hobby/art work- she has done a nib painting, some oil paintings, she loved to go to such classes where the devotional songs are taught, some art is taught, she has sewn a lot of wollen sweaters, topi's and phone covers in wool, she has prepared a telephone cover, a duvet etc in her old sarees... and wat not

All this was possible coz we were in a small town, If anything is new in the market for example a new trend, a new art, we used to witness it soon, there were group of people ready to learn it and would also look out for an expert who knows it any nook and corner and arrange for the learning classes...People used to attend it crazily and start preparing it and decorating their houses... 

Now when I come to think abt it mom was so lucky as she was a Housewife and had time for all this and defenetley she had a lucky husband and family who encouraged her to do all this...yeah n lucky children too u know... :p

And yes not that Mom never encouraged me in all this... she did infact she did her beast, may be I was not that girlie type who loved all this...May be I was too Tomboysih... I used to appreciate art etc but neither  had the interest nor patience to do it myself...

Few incidents where mom has tried to put me somewhere and the results-

Karate- I liked it a lot and was very keen to reach up to Black belt, thanks to my First time Periods that had to come in between, so discontinued for a month and never joined back. :'(
Singing- Oh not that Bollywood of filmi songs... She typically forced me to go and learn singing
"Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Da ni Sa"... God heard my prayers and my Tutor one day told me that she is getting married and that we have to discontinue my classes (Actually my tutor was pretty old say around 30ish) I guess that day I was more happier than my Tutor... Thankfully more never found another tutor for me... :)
Knitting- Have always seen Mom Knit for me, Bro n Dad but my encounter to knitting was when it was introduced to us in the SUPW period in 10th , I loved doing it and have made telephone covers myself but nothing more...
Drawing/Painting- Was never a keen artist myself so no more than drawing pictures for my practical
record. Hey yeah Mom used to encourage and help me and Bro preapre Greeting cards ourselfs and post it to allt he Cousins... Those were the days I should say....

In my engineering days I could notice that many of my friends/cousins of my age who were either studying BSc, BCom or have finished their degrees and were at home were doing a lot more things in life like, learning to preapre Stuffed Toys, Prepare Flowers in Lux Soap, paintings etc... that is when I realised that I too wanted to do them all BUT the thing that stopped me then was TIME to do it... In my 12th all the TIME was consumed in going to college/Tutions and in B.E in Hostel/Semester/Internals and Exams... Where was the TIME to do all that I actually Liked doing.????

Even with this busy Schedule I had learnt 2 things-
1. Rangoli drawn on a Plate
2. To prepare flowers from a Soap (Thanks to Madhu Attige for teachig me this)

Now Hubby likes all the art/craft work and wants to do it all. He loves watching the MAD show in Pogo and he had helped his nephews and also himself created a doll in clay and presented it to me once...
He loves to Paint, draw, Gardening, to have dog and cats as Pets, he loves Aquarium.. His dream is to live i a farm house surrounded with greenary, trees, he wants to do gardening, grow plants etc... when he retires...:)

We have purchased so many things too like paint colors, brushes, drawing books, art stuff, some wodden animals on which u can paint. etc..etc..
 I too kind of developed the liking towards it more so coz he likes it... and believe me it gives you immense pleasure and happiness to do it...

Our first Art (if you can call it so) was Painting on the wooden animal cut outs... Will post the photo later..

Recently we both got together n did this a Flower pot wit one Flower and instead of leaves it was Peacock Feature...:) and guess where we sticked it?? In our Bedroom
Here is the snap...


I just loved the Red color on our Green walls



We love to see it the first thing when we wake up



Hubby's B'day celebration!

This was hubby's First B'day after our marriage and I definitely wanted it to be special that he would remember it for the rest of his life... Finally after a lot of debate with hubby who constantly kept on changing his likes and finally denying.. I talked to his colleague and finally I bought a "HTC Incredible S" as his grand Gift and also bought him a Ferrari remote control car which I know he loves to have one!

Instead of just giving him his presents I decided I will do something special n hence thought of hiding his presents and asking him to find it, when I was discussing this wit Mom, she gave me a Idea "why dont u give him clues n play a treasure hunt" wow.. this was a great idea... hence There I started on....

Thankfully Saturday hubby had office to compensate the leave on 2nd Sep(to make it a long holiday), I was thankful coz I wanted to prepare n arrange his gifts... After a day long of chores, cleaning, washing I became free only @ around 3:00 pm, started packing his gifts n choosing a place to hide n started writing the clues in a post-it sticks... I totally had 7 gifts,hence chose 7 rooms of our home n wrote around 5-6 clues each for the 7 places... I myself was feeling excited to prepare all this n totally forgot that I was tired... When I was done I wrote a invitation letter explaining the rules of the game...It was 6:00 pm and I couldn't wait for 6 more hrs to play the game!!! "Gift Hunt"

Hubby reached home at around 8:30 pm, I was all excited to tell him but controlled my excitement n instead told him that I couldn't buy him anything on his B'day as it was a tiresome day...I also added saying that I was sorry I cudnt buy anything n we shall shop something tomorrow when we go out!!! When he was convinced I had this cunning smile which told me.. U will soon realise it ha ha ha .... :p

Both the SIL's had come home n their son's too, I had already ordered a cake with 2 names in it, one my hubby's n another my hubby's nephew whose B'day was long over but was pending celebration.... Actually even my name had to be included as we had decided long back that we shall celebrate mass B'days but how could I add my name myself while ordering?? .. so I dint.. I just included 2 names.. :)

After dinner at around 11:00 we came down to our "Home" n since we both were tired hubby said lets sleep off its ok no need to wait till 12:00 to wish... I was like wat????? hubby soon started asking I know u hv got me a cake isn't it... Yes I had bought a small Brownie!! at sharp 12:00 I made him cut Brownie and wished him Happy B'day....



 

 

 

 

I cudnt wait to give him the instruction card explaining the rules of the game, after reading he was super excited!!! I was ready with a camera in hand to capture his excitement n started clicking snaps!!!

There started the "Gift hunt" game... The first slip pointed to the Nintendo Wii which contained the CLUE 1 card...

Hubby found his first clue Slip



Hubby reading the Instruction sheet of the Game "Gift Hunt"









CLUE 1 - Hidden inside the Flower wase in the Drawing room which we had bought recently from he Flower show!!

GIFT 1-  A small cute little teddy saying "I Love you"



1st Gift.. Small teddy sayin "I Love you"



Found his 1st Gift in the flower pot



 

CLUE 2 - Hidden in the Books rack in the Guest Room

GIFT 2-  A CD which was helpful to reduce Hypertension 



Searching for his 2nd gift in the books rack





There he found the CD



 

 

 

CLUE 3 - Hidden in the Laundry Bag in our Bedroom

GIFT 3-  A cute little candle in a designer latern



3rd gift hidden inside the Laundry Bag



A candle inside the Latern!!



CLUE 4 - Supposed to be hv hidden in his actual CAR but I completely forgot to do so in his presence @ home... :(

GIFT 4-  A Ferrari remote control CAR

 

Cudnt hide his excitement seeing a Ferrari Car! :)

 

Like a small kid he started playing with the car



At this point he thought dats the end!! and he was more excited when I said "we are just Half way through"

CLUE 5 - In the Shoe Rack

GIFT 5-  The Most Awaited and the Grand gift!! HTC Incredible S 

He kind of had guessed it was a Mobile Phone!



Full smile after seeing the Mobile



CLUE 6 - Pooja Room

GIFT 6-  Greeting 

CLUE 7 - Kitchen

GIFT 7-  Greeting 

 

Reading the Greeting





All his 7 gifts after a sucessful Gift Hunt

By this time he was v excited n was

happy!!! He told me "This is the first time I hv received so many gifts" I also couldn't count the number of times he thanked me for this... 

  

Along came one more realisation to him that he hadn't given me a single gift for my first B'day after our marriage... He soon started asking sorry and that he would never repeat it in the future!! Yes we did take leave on my B'day and went out to a Movie and then Lunch, he did ask me that he will buy me gold n I denied it... But the entire day I was expecting that he shall give me something.. A small doll, A teddy bear, at least a Greeting but nothing happened and the day ended!! I shall probably remember this forever... Somethings cannot just be forgotten... Like my hubby shall remember this B'day forever.. :)

I for some reason wanted him to hv the best B'day ever n hope I was successful in the same...

Later in the day we celebrated his B'day by cutting cake with the family... It was a combined B'day with his nephew and I too joined the celebration as my B'day was also not celebrated!! It was fun time with family too!

B'day Cake!! Yummmy





Just B4 B'day celebration!!



Later in the night went to dine @ the Khansama, UB City, sat in the kool air while waiting for our reservations n then had a lovely,romantic dinner n came back home to watch the remaining part of the Cartoon movie "Tangled" and retired to bed!!

I really hope hubby enjoyed his big day to the fullest!!