Deepavali Celebrations

HI FRIENDS,

we never forget our deepavali celebrations...we had a blast on sunday 23 of october..we prepared great menu like idly-mutton kulambu,chicken & veg biryani,chicken curry & fish fry,egg peeper fry,raita,chicken soup,veg kurma,and the desert was rasamalai..wow menu was yummy still...we had a great time in raj-kalai's house after one month..we were very happy to see rohan kutty after one month..we had lots of pics that makes our sweet memories unforgettable...finally halloween parties for kids..cowboy dress for akhil & surya,bunny dress for lochan & pink pathon for neha kutty..we celebrated indian festival and also US festival guys..it was a good and memorable diwali in our life...And here comes on diwali day we shared our sweets and wishes...ramesh uncle bought crackers for all kids..all kids enjoyed with crackers..hope our next diwali celebrations will be more than this year diwali...happy diwali to everybody from iniyasangamam group..

WELCOMING ROHAN

பெருமாளின் மாதமாம் புரட்டாசியில்,

அழகான அமெரிக்கா நாட்டில்,

பேர் சொல்ல வாழும் தலைவருக்கு,

காத்திருந்தது ஒரு இன்ப அதிர்ச்சி,

நன்னாளாம் புதன் பொழுது விடிய,

காலை சூரியன் வானத் திரையை விலக்க,

பறவைகளின் சத்தத்தில் அமைதி மறைய,

தந்தையின் தவிப்போடு தலைவர் நிற்க,

சூரியன் நடுவானத்தில் வந்து நிற்க,

அனைவரின் பரபரப்போடு செல்ல,

மனங்களில் இனம் புரியாத இன்பங்கள் ஓட,

தாயின் இன்பமான வலியோடு குட்டி தலைவர் குரல் கேட்க !

உலகில் இன்பமான நிமிடம் ஆக அந்த நொடி ஆனதில் ஆச்சிரியமில்லை !

CONGRATS RAJ-KALAI FOR BABY BOY..

SANGAM IS VERY HAPPY TO WELCOME ROHAN TO THIS BEAUTIFUL WORLD!

HAPPY ANNIVESARY TO SANGAMAM CAPTAIN

உலகத்தின் தலைவரை ராஜா என்போம்,

88,FOXBORO LN தலைவரை ராஜ்கமல் என்போம்.

இசையின் ராணியை கலைவாணி என்போம்,

அந்த இசையே ராணியாக வந்தது நம் கலைவாணியாம்.

ஆசைக்கு ஒரு மகள்,ஆஸ்திக்கு ஒரு மகன் என்பார்கள்,

இவர்களின் ஆசை நேஹாவாம் ,ஆஸ்திக்கு இளவரசர் ON THE WAY ஆம்.

நல்லதொரு குடும்பம் பல்கலைகழகம் என்பது இவர்களின் அடையாளமாம் ,

என்றும் செம்மையாக வாழ வாழ்த்துவது இனிய சங்கமமாம்.

இனிய திருமண நாள் வாழ்த்துக்கள்.

Thank you for arranging such a wonderful Baby Shower

For making such a wonderful Baby Shower. 

From Raj G and Family.

KRISHNA JAYANTHI CELEBRATION

What is krishna jayanthi?
               Birth of our great Lord Krishna..A short story of his birth to my knowledge..

Once upon a time there lived a king named KAMSAN..He had a sister name devaki..he loved her so much..she was married to a nice person vasudevar...kamsa was very happy and the whole dynasty was happy..when tthey are on the way to kingdom, a voice from sky appears and says to kamsa that he was going to be killed by devaki's 9th son..kamsa was shocked and he decided to put his lovely sister with her husband in jail...devaki and vasudevar were imprisioned..

sometime later devaki started giving birth to child one by one...kamsa killed all kids one by one..finally devaki carried her 8th son..at that time her cousin who didn't have child come and get that child from her tummy as a light and she got a child name BALARAMAN....

Finally Hero of the story going to appear..kamsa heard that devaki gave birth to her 9t child..devaki and vasudevar was so happy to see that glowing child...At that time lord Vishnu appears and said them..Dear devaki,i am the one who born to u...so u don't worry i will not be killed and i am the one who going to kill ur brother..Dear vasudevar put me in a basket and leave me in Yashodha and Nandhagopar's home in Gokulam..my childhood will be there and when its time i will be here to kill kamsa..vasudevar was so happy and accepted lord vishnu's order...

securities in jail felt asleep..doors opened and vasudevar went on by crossing a river..suddenly rain had come at that time vishnu's bed aathiseshan ( a five headed snake) act as an umbrella to the lord..finally he reached gokulam and see yashoda,she delivered a baby girl ,vasudevar changed the baby and returned to jail..

kamsa had come to kill the child and he saw it was a girl..he was shocked because the voice from sky told him all 9 kids will be boy..finally kamsa decided to kill,eventhough its a girl..
he throwed the kid but she flies in the sky and appears as sakthi and shouted to kamsa that his death was growing in the form of a boy in gokulam and she disappeared...kamsa got angry and beat his sister...

In gokulam krishna's birth was celebrated as GOKULAASHTAMI and the whole place was filled with joy...yashoda and nandagopar were very happy to see the glorious kid in their hand..

SO THIS DAY WE ARE CELEBRATING AS KRISHNA JAYANTHI...


HERE COMES INIYA SANGAMAM TEAM:

                                                                          We celebrated in raj-kalai's home in a grand manner on 21st august ..we all enjoyed a lot..lots of sweets and kaaram...we sang many songs for krishna,we put krishna steps and finally we put namam for all...just for fun.

we all pray to krishna to be arrived on october for raj-kalai..all the best friends

iniya sangamam members..
 

FRIENDSHIP DAY WISHES AUG-1

இனிய நண்பர்களுக்கு நண்பர்கள் தின வாழ்த்துக்கள் :

சங்கமம் குடும்பம்:

                                 தலைவர்:ராஜ்கமல் - கலைவாணி

                                                                            !

                                                                       நேஹா

                                     

                                 உறுப்பினர்கள்:ராஜ்குமார்    -      உமா

                                                                                          !

                                                                                அக்ஹில்

                                                                 

                                                                    ரமேஷ்     -         சுபா

                                                                                        !

                                                                               லோச்சன்

                                                                  

                                                                    மெய்யப்பன்   -    லக்ஷ்மி

                                                                                                 !

                                                                                          சூர்யா

நம் அழகான சங்கமம் குடும்பம் :

                                      

                  நட்புக்கு எடுத்துக்காட்டு சங்கமம் குடும்பம் ,

                  நல்ல பண்புக்கு  எடுத்துகாட்டு சங்கமம் குடும்பம்,

                  நல்ல மனிதருக்கு  எடுத்துகாட்டு  சங்கமம் குடும்பம்,

                  நல்ல மனத்திற்கு  எடுத்துக்காட்டு சங்கமம் குடும்பம்.

                  அழகு குழந்தைகள் இருப்பதும் இங்கே தான்,

                  அன்பு பெண்கள் இருப்பதும் இங்கே தான்,

                  வீர ஆண்கள் இருப்பதும் இங்கே தான்,

                  கூட்டு குடும்பங்கள் சங்கமம் ஆனதும் இங்கே தான். 

                                                              

 இப்படி அன்பால் இணைந்த நெஞ்சங்களுக்கு இனிய நண்பர்கள் தின வாழ்த்துக்கள் .                                                             

   

How to make eating time a fun time for your toddler?

1) Taste the food that you are feeding your toddler. If you cannot fill your stomach with what you are feeding, obviously your precious little ones can't. Feed him what you have prepared for yourself unless  your pediatrician informed you otherwise.

2) Ready made food is to make parent's life easier, not the other way around. Prepare natural food that showers all the love and affection that you have for your child. No offence to Gerber's and Pediasure's,  nothing beats the traditional home cooked indian food.

3) Bring a variety into your kids meals, making a semi solid food by mixing all the things that you  have prepared for the entire family can only make him full after trying 2-3 mouthful. The kids are attracted to the colors and different textures of food. They don't need a food shake.

4) Eating a good meal is more important than eating a good snack. If your child is not eating well after taking a snack, then reduce the portion of the snack or choose lighter snacks.

5) Carbohydrates provide fuel to the body for physical activity and for proper organ function. All Indian food is served with either rice or bread or both. In the north, it is whole wheat breads, such as chapatti, parathas, rotis that are commonly eaten, and in the south it is plain rice and rice-based cereals. Western and eastern India draw a mix of both. Every one needs a good and healthy portion of  Carbohydrates.

6) Plan to eat along with your toddler, we need company so does he or she. Encourage your toddler to play with food, in that way eating time is a fun time for your whole family.

7) The state of your mind when preparing food and feeding your toddler is very important. It is not always about the recipe. If you are so much stressed feeding your toddler, and doubt your cabability in feeding, you may not realize your true potential.

8) Feeding just non-veg as the main and final course, because your toddler likes it so much, can only make you regret later in life.

9) Whether you believe or not, Toddler are faithful followers of their parents, all your good and bad eating habits are involuntarily adapted into your toddler's regime.

10) Having a pre-conceived notion of what kids can eat or can't without experimenting with him or her only makes your life harder.

11) Fruits and Veggies 4 Servings Per Day

Protein 2 Servings Per Day
Dairy 16-24 Ounces Per Day
Grains 4 Servings Per Day

When planning and serving meals to your toddler, try to have him/or her consume the following on a daily basis:

• 2 to 3 cups of calcium - milk (or yogurt, cheese or other calcium rich foods)
• 4 servings of fruits and vegetables. (Serving size: one tablespoon per year of age.)
      One serving should be high in vitamin C and another in vitamin A.
• 4 servings of grains - bread and cereal. One should be an iron-fortified baby cereal.
      A serving is about 1/4 to 1/3 an adult portion (1/4 slice toast, 1/4 cup pasta)
• 2 servings of proteins - meat, beans, eggs, tofu, or peanut butter.
      A good serving of protein should be served at every meal. One serving equals 1/2 ounce.
 A good rule for serving sizes for toddlers is the following:
     1 tablespoon per year of age or 1/4 of an adult serving per year of age
     Courtesy of Parent's Place Nutritionist Q&A.

13) When they are sick this includes even when they have cold, don't try to feed them as usual. Let them decide the portion that they want to eat, however encourage and try to give them lots of fluids and your love.

14) Don't give up. Patience is a virtue. It will take 1-3 months to figure out the best way to feed your
toddler and it is a continuous learning process.

15) Don't use force. Using force to make your child eat is setting trouble for yourself.

16) Presentation of food to your toddlers can also make a difference. Make small portions of food and arrange it in a plate. You can use caps of bottles to make a cube or small ball. As you feed them, remind them how much more to go.

17) Every family is unique and every child is different. Incorporating good eating habits from suggestions given in posts like this without neglecting your child's best interest and their emotional needs are the best the way to go.

Thirumana Naal Vazthukkal

விடியலை பார்த்து சூரியன் உதிக்க ,

குலை விட்ட வாழைமரம் வாசலில் நிற்க,

கெட்டி மேல சத்தம் மண்டபத்தில் கேட்க,

மணமகனின் பார்வையில் மணமகளின் முகம் சிவக்க 
அற்ப்புதமாய் நடந்த ஒரு திருமணம்.

அந்த உமையவளின் பாதியாய் சிவபெருமான்,

நம் உமாவின் பாதியாய் ராஜ்குமார் ,

உலகம் போற்றும் தம்பதியாய் நீங்கள்,

பெற்றெடுத்த செல்வம் அக்ஹில் அவர்கள்,

பொறுமையின் மறுபெயர் உமாவாம்,

பொறுப்பின் மறுபெயர் ராஜ்குமாராம்,

பிறந்த செல்வம் அக்ஹிலோ அமைதியின் மறுபெயராம் எனவே

வையகத்தில் சிறந்த குடும்பம் நீங்கலாம்.

இன்று போல் என்றும் வாழ வாழ்த்தும் இனிய சங்கமம் !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

திருமண நாள் வாழ்த்துக்கள் @@@@@@@@@@@@@27.6.2011

Let the memories begin!! - Part II

Hi Friends

Time to share our Day 2 and Day 3 of trip – Arguably the best fun 

we had on the trip. 

Day 2

It was an amazing day because we all had a nice sleep. We all felt 

very fresh. We decided to go to Sea world on that day. We planned 

to go there at 9am but as usual we don't know the meaning of 

punctuality we started at 11am. In Sea world more than other 

things the shows play a vital role, so we are very clear to cover 

those shows first. Based on the show timings, we planned the 

order to watch the shows, scheduled it and started to run...

First show was sea lion show which was good and comic too. Its 

just a 15 min show. Then comes the beautiful dolphin show 

(in between duty starts with diaper change and food to the kids) 

then dolphin show was amazing. We all loved it to say the least.

Then we were ready for the lunch. Mei & Ramesh searched for 

microwave and finally they had found it for Surya's food, at that 

time myself  & Subha took rest with kids and we all ate tamarind 

rice with thokku & chips.. (We went to Walmart there also to 

buy things)

Again started running to a live performance show it was ok not 

bad more than the show we enjoyed to be inside the a/c hall, 

because outside it was that much hot..

Last comes the Shamu stadium the best show in sea world. It 

was an extraordinary show. We all liked a lot. We were sitting 

in the splash zone and we enjoyed a lot. Lochan enjoyed a lot 

because he thought whale was playing peek-a-boo with him. 

How innocent he is?

Finally we went to the pets ahoy but bad luck comes there also. 

The last show was full. We were worried as the time was 7pm sea 

world was closed but as all u know we all were enthu in taking 

photographs. Park representatives were almost ready to push us 

out. While entering the Sea world, lady at the entrance told us,

if you want to visit next day, you can get a free ticket, we had

that in mind, we went asked at the counter, they lady said you 

can collect the free ticket only tomorrow, we just asked again 

and told her, we had kids so if you can give us it would great, 

she agreed and issued us the next day ticket for free. Then we 

planned to go to temple for Mei b'day. His b’day was on May 28th. 

But we planned to go on May 27th night taking the India time. 

We are very happy that we had gone to temple and attended arati 

done for Durga, that was Friday and we all went to cicssi's 

pizza buffet and had a good dinner and returned to the villa..

Day 3

Ramesh , Subha & Lochan made Mei b’day unforgettable, they bought 

cake in surprise and a greeting card on behalf of iniya sangamam 

members and Mei was so happy..

Then started running to sea world at 11am, When we entered the 

Sea world big queue welcomed us (It was the start of the long 

weekend, we realized it!!) the last evening ticket did help 

us a lot we did not have to wait for the ticket and we entered 

the park with in 10 to 15 mins. And we all went to pets ahoy 

the missed show. It was very good with cute dogs, cats & birds. 

We enjoyed. Actually we planned to cover the sea world in one 

day but it extends to another half a day..

Then we covered the remaining part of the sea world like under 

water seeing penguin feeding dolphins etc.. Half a day gone then 

we came for lunch diaper change and food time for kids and us too.. 

So that day Subha's special curd rice & potato curry, thokku and 

“Dried chillies with fired” too. So we had our lunch and went to 

Universal studio again..

Walking walking walking as days passing we all lost energy 

day by day. It was very hectic because of the leg pain but when 

we are tired we all thought of the hurdles that we passed for 

being there so we were physically tired but mentally we make 

ourselves cheer up. Kids were also not eating well. We make 

ourselves not to worried more about the kids. They should get 

some food at that time that’s it.. 

We started in the second park of Universal studio which is full 

of the film studios like mummy returns, disaster etc. And 

some of the rides too. So then we entered into the first 

park where we went to the "HARRY POTTER"   

"WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER" 4D show with Harry potter 

studio set... It was an amazing studio.. unforgettable experience. 

Usually Mei & myself were afraid of rides but we both like 

Harry potter series, so we wanted to go by taking risk..

Never imagined set inside that ride.. We are walking into 

the Hogwarts school that was made as a line to the ride.. 

On that way we can meet Dumbledore, Harry, Ron, Hermione and 

many characters in the movie...ride was so terrible.. Mei closed 

his eyes at the starting itself. But I enjoyed with full of fear. 

No words to say the Harry potter set and simulation in universal 

studios.. 

Then we back home and ate the carry out pizza and slept..

You can expect Day 4, 5 and 6 will be from our beloved 

Veerabaagu and Counter Kannamma.. 

Cheers

Lakshmi

Wedding day wishes

DEAR RAMESH & SUBHA

WISH BOTH OF YOU MANY MORE HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY!!!

இன்று போல் என்றும் வாழ்க !!!

இனிய சங்கமம் உறுப்பினர்கள்

இரண்டாம் வருட திருமண நாள் வாழ்த்துக்கள் !!!

வையகம் போற்றும் வைகாசியில்

இல்லற வாழ்வில் இணைந்தீர்கள் (JUNE:11TH 2009)

ஊரார் போற்றும் US இல்

இல்லறத்தை நல்லறமாக தொடர்ந்தீர்கள்

சித்திரையில் சீராட்டும்படி  (APRIL:18TH 2010)

சிங்கத்தை (LOCHAN ஐ )பெற்றீர்கள்

வரும் வைகாசியில் வானத்தில் (MAY BE NEXT JUNE)

இருந்து தேவதையை (எங்கள் தங்கையை)பெற்றெடுக்க வாழ்த்தும்

இனிய சங்கமத்தின் குட்டி உறுப்பினர்கள்

நேஹா,

அக்ஹில்,

சூர்யா,

எல்லோரும் இங்கே பாருங்க நான் எங்க அம்மா (கலைவாணி ) வைத்துகுள்ள  இருக்கேன்!

Let the memories begin!! - Part I

We would like to share our trip experience with rest of our group and also this way we will relive our memories when ever we read this blog – I hope.

Day 0 and 1 of our trip

There was so much excitement and extra pressure on our self’s to have good time (the only reason for the extra pressure is the amount of money we going to spend on this trip, to say the least, its beyond single paycheck and it’s the biggest we have spent on a single trip). So much research and planning for the trip and so much of time invested on getting “good deal”. So many twists on planning and finding the right time for park visits to accommodate all three parks. Plan for the adult and infant food, cloth purchasing. Hmm, I need to write a separate article about cloth purchasing to justify the time and “money” spent!! The infants will wear new dress everyday, that’s the initial plan, and ended up adults got some new dress too to pose for the pictures to show case the man made wonders to different parts of the world!

There were so many understanding needs to be sorted out before stating the trip, golden words (can be repeated often but very very hard to follow!!)

1. You get what you get, even though you plan for 6 days be satisfied with what you will be able to cover.

2. We are traveling with two infants and bound to loose precious time and bound to get into to rift and fight with even the closest relationship in the world (husband and wife)!

3. We are traveling with two families, if one family is taking time the other one has to go on to cover the trip.

Well did we follow all those, not sure!! After all we are common men and women!

The mis-understandings within family started before even starting the trip, as we always do get sorted out and move on for the next twist and turn the life has to offer – what a positive thought!

Raj A – agreed to accompany us in our car and be kind enough to drive back our car and drop it in our garage and give the keys to Raj G, who takes turn to pick us up after our week long trip. We were fortunate to have kind friends our group! As always Raj A arrived in time, we knew well in advance that Raj A will be here on time, so we decided to load the car with baggage’s last night itself and had hand baggage and the most important diaper bag to load when we load our self’s in!

Buckle up boys and girls – the journey start’s right here – all pre work has been done, now time to execute them, we all are prepared – well we can say the start rite!

First hurdle – the flight is at 8:05 p.m. we are starting around 4:30 p.m. – normal journey hour to airport is around an hour, so if we reach there by 6 p.m. is all that we were aiming, the traffic had other plans – we took some alternative route – Thank God – Raj G was not in the car, he would have killed me taking that route! – Even if we pay him 200,000 USD per hour (that’s the cost to pay off his current home loan!) he will not stay there, take my word!  Well, coming to the point, we reached airport around 6:40 p.m. around not bad – in fact very good considering the circumstances. We bid good bye to Raj A and he wished us good luck – we promised him that we will give him a call, when we reach Orlando, did we do? – Does all of the men follow their word, the world opinion poll say – 99% of time men don’t! Can we against world? So we stick to it!!

Hurdle 2 – there was big line to even get boarding pass (we never knew, we were going to spend most of our trip time on the line/queue’s, Well we got glimpses of what we were going to get!!) We asked the lady over there, our flight suppose to start in about hour and 10 mintues, can we go in express line to get our boarding pass – She said, your flight is delayed and it can even get cancelled and we are canceling flights back and forth due to weather conditions!! Wow – what a start! – First they announced our flight will be delayed 30 minutes and it only went up from there (if that was the public trading stock, I could have bet “all-in” in that one, wow might have covered more than the trip expenses!) We went to the gate around 7:30 to wait more than 3 hours in the gate – my parents and wife would have been proud if I told them, I went to gate 3 hours in advance to its departure!! ( I have even caught a flight in MDW arriving 10 min’s before – best part is I went through the pilot and air host’s line and got to the gate 1 min before its departure and the lady at gate told me, they are going to close the flight door, run, well they did, I knocked they opened it, wow I made it!!) May be this time they made be pay for that (with my wife, sibling and even with friend’s family)! What ever it may be, glad they decided to fly us instead of canceling the flight. Before that we went thru couple of things, normally we don’t go through, there was airport shut down. They scared us saying heavy lighting coming to us and switched off all the lights in the airport. While all these were happening, we were taking mac’dee burgers!! They told us they are going to take a different route – where the lighting already traveled and filling up more fuel and additional travel time too. Kudo’s to Sothwest airlines for deciding us to fly! Lakshmi and Subha were too nervous and were not too comfortable to fly – Me and Ramesh told them, if they deiced to fly, it has to be very very safe measure so don’t worry. We started exactly around 10:40 p.m. CDT, that’s the time we were supposed to be landing! What an irony!!

Hurdle 3 – The enterprise – rent – a car will close at 12:00 a.m. at the airport, We knew if the flight gets delayed we will get problem in renting the car, so we called up enterprise and told them, they said get the keys from their neighbors – Alamo rent a car. When we landed at Orlando, with our car seats and baggage’s went to claim our key to car. Surprise everyone!! The Alamo was not able to locate our reservation; we called all the available 24 hour numbers, no use!! They help line said, they open at 5:00 a.m. The time was around 4:00 after all the call’s were over, so we thought we will wait for another one hour – at least by then we may try to get a sleep at airport – it was very spacious and clean. The only option is to sleep on the floor. Kids were sleeping in their strollers. When I try to sleep on the floor just remembered, when did I slept on the floor last time, long time back, at least had a comforter or a sleeping bag for my support. God has been so kind to me – not today though!!

Hurdle 4 - 5:00 a.m. no one opened the enterprise door, then we learnt actually they open at 6:00 a.m. 5:00 to 6:00 a.m. is only exclusively for rental return’s. They say information is handy, well you know that now. And around 4:45 they started the clean the airport – full vacuum sounds and all lights were switched on, even sleeping on the floor is also not an option. Time and again thoughts crossed about renting vehicle from Alamo or some other vendor who is open at that time, they are asking for more money, well we decided to wait so lets wait for one more hour, we did the lady turned up at the counter was so rude, they only word she said, we apologies, that’s all. Frankly we did not have enough energy to fight too, time was 6:15, and we had to be at 8:00 for the property presentation to attend to claim our tickets to universal studios. We thought we look very bleak first we need to put our baggage’s in the villa (we rented 2 bed villa) and fresh ourself’s up and go to the presentation. After we went to the car outlet, they gave as choices.. we were very greedy and picked the latest model 2011 – which had very low mileage it was town and country model mini van. And after we put the car seats and pushed the baggage’s thru and pushed the strollers in, it was jam packed like peak hour city bus in Chennai. Subha said, lets all be silent and pray before we start the van, we did, I remember the one she said to Ramesh, “vanduma, remember goddess Durga”. Well the Goddess listen to us after 12 hrs exactly. (May be Ramesh prayed towards India, and the temple over there was closed and when it did open and ours was the first request on table and it was honored, it was evening time for us!)  After we hit the highway’s, we learnt that you need to stand on the gas and it will react after 5 minutes. In the essence of time, we cannot go back and change our vehicle and change car seat and baggage, instead take that for pick-up! There is a old saying.. Beggars cannot be choosers, true isn’t! Thought came in the middle of trip to change the van.. same reason.. no time to do that either.. And the van was drinking the gas at its will, throughout the trip.. we did a rough calculation, it came about 10 to 11 mpg – when the gas prices are at 4$ - any takers ? (Remember when we traveled in 15 seater for tulip show, it gave more than this one!)

Hurdle 5 - By the time we found the route and got our keys from the box and try to search for the rental property, we were not able to find it, time was 7:45, so we decided to go to the presentation, well we tried to reschedule by calling different numbers available to us, no one picked! Lakshmi was saying from the back, can you drive like this, we will sleep, well that was one of her wishes we turned down! Finally one person picked the phone, time was 8:15, we were half the way thru to the presentation place, he helped us reschedule at 10:30 and we decided to go back to find our villa, we did and loaded our baggage’s in the villa around 9:00 a.m. Lakshmi had made lemon rice mix prior to trip, Subha and Lakshmi made lemon rice with that and kids routine started and we took bath and refreshed our self’s time is 11:00 a.m. and take various route and finally reached the place where they going gyan us about the time-share property buying.

Hurdle 6 - The sales person who is Peru-Indian came about 12:00 p.m. and told us straight to our face, you guys are come here for free tickets, I know, I will try to go thru them as quick as possible, we believed. He was rude at times, he blamed his limited English fluency for that and we are not bothered about at all, since all of us were at half-sleep. To be honest, that is the first time, I learnt about timeshare property logistics. Not sure who invented that, sure its genius concept, one property will be sold to at least 150 families – the best part is they take turn and they can sell / exchange their turns to others too. Everyone pays tax and maintenance every year. There is only one winner in this! Time flew like anything, we were not thrilled with the concept and our eyes were pleading for sleep. He kept on giving gyan and showed his photograph’s of his various vacations and his property photo’s. Surya and Lochan were running around the place like anything. Finally Surya decided to take his things and started to tear them apart – he had enough of it I guess. He even pooped and started to give a nasty small, then that guy decided to stop and he said, I will finish my presentation here, and he did not showed the property at all, and he said he will call his manager, can you please change diaper for your son, we took that offer!! We met his manager and gave worst rating for the sales person!! He took our feed back and he said your tickets are waiting the gift area, we ran over that to cross another hurdle!!

Hurdle 7 – The lady over there took all our names to print our tickets to Universal studio’s (it’s a 7 day multi pass ticket – this is the best ticket available – we get 4 of those for 1 day ticket price in turn we obliged to attend the presentation and our villa price will also come for lower price – that’s the deal!) Things were going smooth until she clicked print e-ticket button – the system panicked and our transaction was complete but the system was not printing e-tickets. The only good thing happened over there was a lady who works for universal marketing team was present at that location, was very very helpful, she called their technical team and people were started debugging code (wow how many times that happens!!!) we could have gone with resume to get a technical team member job over there I guess, we were giving enuf tips of what we known. Nothing worked finally, they found out that our transaction actually hit the database and they had different application to re-print the ticket, they used that printed out tickets around 4:45 p.m.!!! We shared our entire day story to that lady over there, she was so kind and she offered free 5 entry fast passes for each one of us and wished us good luck! – We needed that very very badly. She was an angle sent from heaven, I guess – that worked wonders for us.

After we came out from that place, we had a thought of going back to villa and sleep early and call it a day.. Then $2000+ dollars came write across the eyes and we told our self.. we will go to universal and see the park looks and try to go to one part and see how we do, if we feel, we need to then we will go back.. – This is perfectly Raj A’s method of positive thinking.. It worked wonders!! Then we eat the lemon rice with Uma gave home made “chilly dried with fried”, we felt the heat.. Man the sun was beating as down at more than 100 deg F and we eat dried fried chilly as side dish, we are proud Indians you know! After we entered Universal park, we carefully got 2 fast passes each on Thursday and remaining 3 each for Saturday. First show we went was Spiderman 3D (without knowing at the end of the trip we each had 3 feet spider man as a memory of this trip!! ). We used our first fast pass and skipped the line and finished the show by taking turns.. And we went around the park and we had real good time as the evening greeted us with gently breeze and we did cover more than what we thought, we went a train ride which goes at 25 feet above the ground level in a slow speed (say about 5 to 10 mph) and goes around the fantasy part of the park. Which was pretty, the time was around 9:30, the park close time and body cannot take any more, so we have to call it a day, we ended with panda express amazing food!! We went to villa and put our feets up!! There is only way this trip can go.. it cannot go any worst, and everyday will be a better day here after.. we went with lot of positive thoughts..

I will continue to share our rest of the trip memories in my next parts.. will try to share them with pictures as much as possible. till then.. happy reading, do point out mistakes, no one is perfect!

 - Lakshmi and Meiyappan

இனிய பிறந்த நாள் வாழ்த்துக்கள்

மெய்யப்பன் அவர்களுக்கு இனிய பிறந்த நாள் வாழ்த்துக்கள்!!!!!!!

இப்படிக்கு 

பெல்பாட்டம் முதலாளி & கவுன்ட்டர் கண்ணமா.

தன்நலம் இல்லாத தானை தலைவரே உங்களுக்கு நன்றி!!!!

உங்களுது மனம் போல் உங்கள் மணை,

அந்த கலைவாணியே உங்கள் துணை, 

உங்கள் ஆசைக்கு என்று ஒரு மகள் ,

உங்கள் ஆஸ்திக்கு என்று ஒரு மகன், 

அன்புக்கு என்றும் நீங்கள் அடிமையே, 

அந்த அன்பை தருவது உங்கள் அன்னையே, 

மொத்தத்தில் பாருக்குள் நீங்கள் ஒரு பொக்கிசமே,

நிலையாய் இருந்துவிடு இனிய சங்கமிடமே!!!!!!!

நன்றி நன்றி நன்றி நன்றி !!!!!!!!!

இப்படிக்கு

பெல்பாட்டம் முதலாளி & கவுன்ட்டர் கண்ணமா.

(இது எங்கள் முதல் படைப்பு, தவறிருந்தால் மன்னிப்பு!!!)

Thank you to Mr. and Mrs Mei Family.

Once again, let us thank our founding family Mr. and Mrs. Mei to organize such a wonderful evening. I am sure we had a wonderful time with kids and family.

How can we show the appreciation for their eagerness to always share their happy moments with us?
Don't even try it, It's pretty hard to emulate them.

Thanks to Mr. and Mrs.  Ramesh family to bring with the original idea of buying a grill for the awesome couple. In fact, he and his wife did everything to pick and choose, buy a thoughtful greeting card and package it beautifully  nice with sheen.
How one can be more modest of doing all the work and asking some one (Raj G) to give the gift?
We can only try it. It does make some one special to do that.

Thanks to Mr. and Mrs Raj A family. They are always there to give their support. When Mrs. Raj A, told that he want to be punctual to his wife, it clearly show how much importance his family gives to this sangamam.

How should we thank their attitude and their spirit to support?
We can only try it, Our thankfulness will be always short of it.

Thanks to Akhil, Neha, Surya and Trilochan to be our gems of our life.

Happy Anniversary to Lakshmi & Meiy

Hi Guys,

Let me take this opportunity, on behalf of Sangam , to wish our beloved friends Lakshmi & Meiy for their wonderful anniversary day.

Lakshmi & Meiy
     Our hearty wishes to both of you. Many more happy returns of the day!!!!!!

Eppadikku
Sagamathilirinthu oruthan.

US la vaazllum kaninni thollelaali.

Naanga US la vaazllum kaninni thollelaali,
Naalu Naala Sernthom koottali,
Vaara vaara vanguvom thakali,
Adhai vangavudalana manavi aava badra kaali,

Engalalaku Abbott/Cardinal health dhaan Mudallalli,
Kaasu varlana odi povam vimanam eri,
Appo appo work from home poduvam nenacha madri,
Phone call vanda nadungi poovum Car le eri,

VPN enra onnu ellana enga vaalvula mannu,
Mac donalds la poiee Vaangi thinvoom bun,
Vaara vaarum Pot luck sengi thinnvom kannu,
Aduthu enga poi parakku parakalamu nee ennu,

Kudhumba thalaivi podra soru dhaan engulukku ginnu,
Walmart la meeting podra jaadhi innu,
Engala thaalva nenikaama po gammunu,
Enrum  Iniya Sangaathodu serndhu irunda romba fun.

Kurrippu: Badrakaalinnu Uvamya Therinju Theriyama Sonnadarkku Mannikavum. Badrakali on a positive means goddess. Please take it in a lighter note. If you guys want to scold me, moonju mela vetchu thitunga, vaangikirren. Avanga avanga kudambathaarudan. I want you guys to laugh loud and be happy.

இனிய சங்கமத்துக்காக என் முதல் கவிதை - by Lakshmi

எங்கிருந்தோ வந்த பறவைகள் நாம்
வேடந்தாங்களில் ( US ) ஒன்று சேர்ந்தோம் !
                                                  ஒன்றாய் பேசினோம் !
                                                  ஒன்றாய் பழகினோம் !
                                                  ஒன்றாய் சிரித்தோம் !

மனிதர்களாய் வேறுபட்டு நின்றாலும்
                     நம்     எண்ணங்கள் ஒன்று !
                                 நினைவுகள் ஒன்று !
                                 செயல்கள் ஒன்று !
                                 சிந்தனைகள் ஒன்று !

நாம் சங்கமத்தில் இணைவதற்காக கடவுள் நம்மை படைத்தார் !
இனி அவரால் கூட நம்மை பிரிக்க முடியாது !


இப்படிக்கு
சங்கமத்தில் ஒருத்தி !

என் இனிய நண்பர்களே, இந்த இனிய தருணத்தில் என்னுடைய கன்னி தமிழ் பின்னூடத்தை பதிவு செய்யவதில் பெருமை அடைகிறேன், மட்டற்ற மகிழ்ச்சி அடைகிறேன். நான் உங்களுடன் நம்முடைய உலக கோப்பை இறுதி போட்டி கண்ட நினைவை பதிவு செய்ய விரும்பிகிறேன். காலத்தால் அழியாத அந்த நினைவை பதிவு செய்யவது இன்றி அமையாதது. "வரலாறு முக்கியம் அமைச்சரே".

ஒரு ஊர்ல (குர்நீ) ஒரு அடுக்குமாடி குடியிருபில ஒரு குடும்பம் குதுகலமா கும்மி அடிசிகிட்டு இருந்துச்சு.. கூட சேர்ந்து கும்மி அடிக்க வீரபாகு குடும்பம் சேர்ந்துச்சு அப்புறம் முன் எச்சரிக்கை முனுசாமி குடும்பம் சேர்ந்துது அப்புறம் இந்த குரூப்-அ அலர்ட் ஆக்க வந்தாரய்ய வந்தாரு அலர்ட் அலர்ட் ஆறுமுகம். இப்படியாக இந்த நாலு குடும்பமும் சேர்ந்து இந்தியா வரலாறு படைக்க போகும் கிரிக்கெட் உலக கோப்பை இறுதி போட்டி போக்க தயரானங்க. 

எல்லாரும் ஏப்ரல் 1 -ம் தேதி கூடினாங்க. (பாருங்க பய புள்ளைக முட்டாள்கள் தினதன்னைக்கு கூடியருக்கு). எல்லாரும் வீட்லேர்ந்து கூடஞ்சொரு கட்டி கிட்டு வந்து புல் கட்டி கட்டிட்டு தூங்க தயாராகும்போது எல்லாருக்கும் அதிசயமாக சூர்யா தம்பி தூங்கிடாறு.. அப்பவே இந்தியா வெற்றி பெற போகுதுன்னு பட்சி சொன்னமாதிரி இருந்துச்சு. ஒரு பெரிய தடை விலகின சந்தோஷத்துல நம்ம பய புள்ளைக சீட்டு விளையாட ஆரம்பிட்சசு. என்ன விளையாட்டுன்னு கேகுறீங்களா? சுத்த தமிழ்ல்ல சொல்லனும்ன இறுதி தீர்ப்பு (அ) நீதி (அ) ஜட்ஜுமென்ட் (இதுவும் தமிழ் தாங்க) ஆட்டம். ஆனா ஆட்டம் என்ன ஒருதனவிட ஒருத்தன் மிஞ்சனும் அதுதான் குறிக்கோள். இந்த ஆடட்டதுல வழக்கம் போல அப்பிரநியான மெய் தோல்விய தலுவிட்டறு. (இதுக்கு எதிர்த்து கமெண்ட் எழுதறவங்க ஒழுங்கு நடவடிக்கை குழுவ சந்திக்க வேண்டிவரும்). 

இப்படியாக அந்த ஆட்டம் நள்ளிரவு 2 மணிக்கு முடிய சபை கலைக்க பட்டு பெண்களும் குழந்தைகளும் பாதுகாப்பான இடத்திருக்கு அனுப்ப பட்டனர். (தூங்கபோய்தாங்கப்பா!)  அதன் பின் ஆண் சிங்கங்கள் மட்டையுடன் வீர விளையாட்டுக்கு தயாராயினர். (நீங்க எதாவது மாடு பிடிக்க போறங்கன்னு தப்ப நெனைச்ச நான் பொறுப்பில்லை) அவங்க விளையாடினது நாலு செவுதுக்குள்ள மேசை டென்னிஸ். அலர்ட் ஆறுமுகம் முன் எச்சரிக்கை முனுசாமி ஒரு அணியாகவும் வீரபாகுவும் எமோஷனல் ஏகாம்பரம் எதிர் அணியாகவும் விளையாடினர், அனல் பறக்க சர்விசெகள் போடா பட்டன. பார்வையாளர்கள் கூட்டம் அலைகடளன வர வில்லைன்னு சொல்ல வந்தேன். வீரபாகு தன் நயவஞ்சக ஆட்டத்தால் எதிர் அணியினரை தோற்கடித்தார்.  அந்த ஆட்டம் அதிகாலை 3 மணி அளவில் முடித்து வைக்க பட்டது. 

இறுதி ஆடம் தொடங்க இன்னும் 30 நிமிடங்களே உள்ள நிலையில் அனைவரும் தூங்க ஆயத்தமாக லக்ஷ்மி போட்டு வைத்திருந்த தேனீர் நினைவுக்கு வர அதை அனைவரும் பருகி இளைப்பறி கொண்டிருக்கும் வேளையில் முன் எச்சரிக்கை முனுசாமியின் இறுதி ஆட்டத்தின் எதிர்பார்புகளை கேட்டு விளித்து கொண்டனர். அவருடைய எதிர் பார்ப்புகளை கடவுளே கேட்டவுடன் தலை சுற்றிபோவர், ஆனால் நம்ம அலர்ட் ஆறுமுகம் தன்னுடைய சமயோசித புத்தியால் எதிர் பார்ப்பை சமாளித்து மு மு வை மனம் தளர விடாமல் கடைசி வரை வழி நடத்தி சென்றார். எமோஷனல் ஏகாம்பரம் வீரபாகுவை ஆட்டத்தின் கடைசி நிமிடம் வரை  சமாளித்து இந்தியா வெற்றி பெரும் என்ற தனது கருத்தை நிலை நாட்டினார். ஆட்டத்தின் கடைசி அத்தியாயங்களில் மு மு மற்றும் வீரபாகுக்கு இந்தியா ஜெயிக்கும் என்ற நம்பிக்கை துளிர் விட ஆரம்பித்தது. அதற்க்கு பெரிதும் முயற்சித்து தனது நாட்டுபற்றை வெளிபடுத்தினார் அலர்ட் ஆறுமுகமும் எமோஷனல் ஏகம்பரமும். 

காலை விடிய தொடங்கியதும் பெண்களும் குழந்தைகளும் கோதாவில் குதித்தனர். காலை உணவு ஐரோப்பிய முறைப்படியும் மதிய உணவு மெக்சிகன் முறைப்படியும் பரிமாற பட்டன. அனைவரும் வயிறார உன்று வாயார இந்திய அணியை வெற்றி பெற வைத்தனர். இந்திய அணி வெற்றி பெற்று வரலாறு படைத்த அந்த தினத்தையே தங்கள் 4 குடும்பங்கள் இணைந்த இனிய நாளாக அறிவித்தனர். பின்னர் அது இனிய சங்கமமாக உருவெடுத்து வரலாறு படைத்தது தனி கதை. ஆனால் விதை போடபற்றது இந்த நன் நாளில்தான். 

இந்த சந்திப்பின் உச்சகட்டமாக பேசப்பட்டவை பின் வருவன

1 மு மு வின் கமெண்டுகள் மற்றும் எதிர் பரப்புகள்

2 அலர்ட் ஆறுமுகத்தின் சவாலே சமாளி உத்திகள்

3 தம்பி சூர்யா நேரத்துக்கு தூங்கி ஒத்துளைத்தமை

4  ஜட்சுமென்ட் விளையாட்டின்போது சுபாமதி படைத்த சாதனை, லாவகமாக வீரபாகுவை சமாளித்தது.

5 சிறிய மற்றும் பெரிய குழந்தைகள் அனைத்தும் ஒன்றாக கும்மி அடித்தது

இந்த பின்னுட்டம் யார் மனதையும் புண் படுத்த அல்ல என்பதை சங்கத்தின் சார்பில் தெரிவித்து கொள்கிறோம்.

இதில் விடுபட்ட மற்ற விஷயங்களை உறுபினர்கள் கமெண்ட் பகுதியில் தெருவிக்கலாம். 

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Iniya Sangamam is a wonderful moment in our lives. It started as a simple acquaintance and blossomed into a beautiful flower. By creating a blog, we want it to grow more and take it to the next level.

Four individual families unknown to each other, unrelated to each other, each one coming from a different geo-graphical location in Tamil Nadu with different background and social surroundings became acquainted one by one by random choice of events, and with Mei Family being the Catalyst, Iniya Sangamam was formed on April 2nd 2011. Yes, This happens to concede with the event of India winning the world cup 2011.