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“Onashamsagal” Happy Onam!

sabarishr — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:41:49 +0000

The Onapookalam at our house : traditional flower carpet put at the entrance of homes to celebrate the Malayali festival of Onam

Happy Vishu!

sabarishr — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:05:43 +0000

All you Iyers and Malayalees out there – Happy Vishu!

Also a very Happy Sri RamanavamiÂ to all!

Holi Hai!

sabarishr — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:02:16 +0000

Holi celebrations at work!

Reflecting back on Holi!

Kundan, Nitin, Chaitu, Arun, Vinay and me

Bonds from AP – Bhargav and Kundan

Happy Republic Day India!

sabarishr — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 04:57:29 +0000

Happy Pongal and Thiruvadirai

sabarishr — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:17:23 +0000

Pongal is a four day long harvest festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu and is one of the most important popular Hindu festivals of the year. It is also known as Sankaranthi in other parts of the country.

Click here to read more about Pongal.

Thiruvadirai festival is celebrated by Kerala Iyers and is a mixture of the practice of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Click here to read more about Thiruvadirai.

As Palakkad Iyers we celebrate both. Mom made some ‘kali’ (a sweet dish), which I enjoyed. In the evening we may all go out to a Shiva temple.

Vaikunta Ekadashi

sabarishr — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

A major festival of south India. The Vaikunta Dwara is opened in the temple on this day. Thousands of devotees pass through this gate on this day to get special mercy of Lord Srinivasa Govinda. Lord Srinivasa Govinda receives a gorgeous bathing ceremony and special alankara or decoration this day with sparkling jewels.

Was a good day overall. I went to a Krishna Temple in CMH Road, Indiragar in the evening and had a good darshan of the Lord on this auspicious day. Met a close friend after a long time, although for a very brief amount of time. And finally the day was made when my cousin brother called up from the US of A. When I wrote my earlier blog post about the new domain, I knew he would contact me after reading that and sure enough he did! Although I didn’t expect a phone call and free hosting space I did expect him to try and convert me to wordpress and offer help with my website development! Thanks anna!

Goodbye 2005!

sabarishr — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Happy New Year!!

Goodbye 2005 and

Welcome 2006!

Pongal oh pongal

sabarishr — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Today is ‘Pongal’ or the harvest festival which farmers celebrate and its also the Tamil New Year. Today is also called ‘Makara Sankranthi’ which is the celebration of the sun entering the northern hemisphere.

I’m ’supposed to be studying’ now but somehow just not able to that. Suddenly there are a lot of good shows on TV and there is a lot of pending work on the computer!

Spent most of yesterday outside. Visited a school (NPS) along with Kevin, Sunil and Deepthi (who came late as usual!) and spoke to some 8th graders about the latest trends in Microsoft technologies and showed them some demos and videos that made them go crazy! This was the youngest audience we had ever spoken to and the session went on really well! Contrary to our expectations these young students knew a lot and were well exposed to technology. We were impressed at what they knew at such a young age – many had programmed with C, C++, VB and some even with VB.NET! And these are 8th standard students (12 – 14 years old) mind you!

After the session at NPS we returned to the Microsoft Office to meet Ghana and Sharath. All of us then went to the Microsoft Global Technical Support office and filmed the place and interviewed some foreigners.

Returned home rather late and was too tired to study. Fell asleep after checking my mail and reading a few blogs.

Update: Oops! It was not the Tamil New Year – only the beginning of the Harvest season. The Tamil New Year was quite a few days before this update – on April 14th.

tis the season to be jolly!

sabarishr — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Merry Christmas!!!

This day brings back a lot of memories of my days in my school choir. Mr. E.D George, our music teacher, used to make us practice like crazy, but at the end of the day when the choir sings and everybody just stops and listens to us…it was a great feeeling!

My days at school were my best days ever. Not even my days at PUC or engineering can quite match up to the great times at school…

Well now my days in engineering are also numbered….and how have they been? hmm…pretty decent i should say.

But if I had to rank my days at school, pre-university college and engineering college, it would be as follows-

1. School [the best]
2. Engineering [some good times and friends]
3. Pre-university [well I am not sure how PU was - because I hardly attended any classes!]

Merry Christmas once again!