Back in town ... but busy...!!!

It was 11 pm yesterday night when we have reached home from Trivandrum...! The have started an hour and a half late...! Otherwise we could have reached home by 9.30 pm itself..!

There were jam packed three days we have spent in there!!!

The first day, we have been to the film 'Unnai pol oruvan' starred by Kamal Hasan. Really a good film to watch..! I am planning write about it in my Tamil blog 'Kaattaru' tomorrow...!!

The next day there was a disappointment...! My doctor was not available on that day...!

On Monday, we have been to the Saraswathi Temple with my son for a ritual ceremony of writing on the tongue of the child for them to study well...! Myself and my son were in Dhothies..! (No male will be allowed to wear shirt inside the temple).

After that we have visited Padmanaba Swamy Temple ...! My son enjoyed playing and running in the big temple premises...!

Yesterday we went for the hospitals (For me and my wife's monthly checkup).. As I haven't took the medicine for the past three days, the BP was 130/90...! The doctor asked me to continue the medication for another fortnight...!

Then about my today... I will right tomorrow...!

LinkedIn a Professional Network...!

Well... this is my second post today(The first one is 'Let the Vijaya Dhasami bring you victories...!') ...!

Though I have my LinkedIn profile for a long time, only for the past couple of days I have seriously updated and started finding professional contacts...! Its really awesome and I am even receiving interests in my profile by employers (Which even the job sites failed to do...!)

It is also a place full of good people to find people of their professional interest...! My LinkedIn public profile can be accessed at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeyaveerapandian . If you want to connect with me, you can have my email id jvpandian@gmail.com for your reference...!

This is an another effort by me to grow my professional network as it had already grew to 11 in two days...!!

Let us grow professionally..!

Let the Vijaya Dhasami bring you victories...!

It is holiday time in India...! People are preparing to celebrate Saraswathi Pooja and Vijaya Dhasami on coming Sunday and Monday...!

I am planning to go for a check up to Trivandrum tomorrow afternoon...! I will be there on coming Sunday and Monday and will be back in town on Tuesday...! As usual, I will try to write my regular posts from cybercafes or from my mobile.

Today the department of Information Technology of our institution is conducting a Symposium gathering contestants from the surrounding colleges...! My 3rd maternal uncle's son also participating in the competitions representing his college...!

As a coincidence, his father also came here on his way to the nearby town here as part of his business visit...! We were having good time spending together and he left just now..!

Away from internet

Dear all, i was away from the internet for the entire day today. I will write about my today before 10 am ist tomorrow. Till then please stay tuned . . !

GM, COO, What else in store...?

Hope you remember I am looking for a job change since a bit before I have wrote about it in my old post here...! Now there are handful of opportunities coming in my way...! But I am very carefully looking into the pros and cons of every offer ....!

Because I am aiming for a giant leap from here rather than to plan for small time growth!! The offers include designations ranging from GM to COO....! Let me wait and see what else in store for me...!

As I am keeping busy since last week I was not able to write here regularly...! So just a brief about things happened since last Friday...!

Last Friday I have got a call from my cousin who is studying 3rd year BTech in IT at Virudhunagar and he told me that he was not feeling well. As he is not in good terms with his father, I have asked him to come to my home for treatment. He was there with us till Sunday...!

On last Saturday, we have been to Jeyaveera Abayahastha Anjaneyar temple at Krishnapuram near here.

On Monday night my son wanted to play with fireworks and crackers and so we did.

My son was very happy yesterday night as my relatives attended his birthday party.

He happily cut the cake and shared with others.

You are 3, Happy Birthday Prasanna..!!!

Yes he is completing 3, yet unbelievable but true....! Today my son's 3rd birthday....! We have the birthday party at 6.30 pm today at my home...! I have to be there by 6 pm...! But I am already running late....!
Will catch up with you tomorrow with some photos of it...!

Not feeling well...!

This week is going very flat...! Not much of interesting things happened except the Monday...!

Right from yesterday night I am not feeling alright...! I am feeling like feverish and wanted to take off from my office this afternoon...! But I dont want to simply sit at home...! So I have come back to office after lunch...!

It is true that I havent write much here this week...! But keep visiting regularly for everyday stories...!

See you tomorrow...!

My uncle called me by name...!

You knew I have posted here last Monday only. I was typing one another post to be posted on the same date, but kept it pending as my plans for that day have changed unexpectedly...!

Previously, for some valid reasons we have decided to skip the betrothal function of Balaji on 14th... But our other relative here asked me whether I want to come with them by their car to attend the function...! So I though it would be convenient for us to go by car and return and decided to go...! I also didnt want to miss out the opportunity of meeting all my relatives at one place...!! I have took off for my office in the afternoon and we have started to Bodinayakanur...!

We have arrived there bit late, but the function started well inside the auspicious time...

The highlight of the day was, everyone was very affectionate towards us, particularly my first maternal uncle spoke to me well, even he called me by name... I was so happy about it...!

Please wait till tomorrow 12 noon IST...!!

There are things keeping me busy and away from internet...! Please check again on or after 12 noon IST tomorrow ....! There are lots of good stories to share with you...!

So please stay tuned...!

A different Teacher's Day...!

Its a very good start of the week today...! I was not able to write here for the past two days...!

On last Saturday, I was busy with various activities. In the morning we had the PTA meeting and in the afternoon there was a Teacher's Day function at our group teacher education college, I was invited as Guest of Honor...!

The program was organised a bit differently...! When the speech by the delegates were going on, all the teachers were served a scrolled piece of paper to keep with them. Every paper contained a name of a leader or event or a date...!

As part of the agenda, there was a ceremony to honor the teacher...! That time the organisers started reading a date or event or a name of the leader...! The person who was having the matching paper should come on to the stage to receive the gift...!

I liked the way the function was organised....!

Music that heals...!

If you are the regular reader of my blog, you might be knowing that I love listen songs...! That too soft melodies in Tamil...! Normally I use to listen to songs at bedtime in my mobile phone...!

Couple of days back I was listening to one 'Uyirilae enathu uyirilae' song from Vettayadu Vilayadu Tamil film...! I love that song very much as it is a superb melody...! After the 'Uyire uyire' song from the film Bombay, this is the only song which I feel very near to my heart...! It is a proven scientific fact that when you are happened to listen to songs of that kind of melody with full involvement, you will become more calm and get relaxed....!

Yesterday my mother had gone to Chennai to take part in a temple ritual there...! She has plans of attending my cousin's betrothal on Monday. Today is quite usual as other days...!

But tomorrow going to be a busy and tense day as we have the PTA meeting at our institution...! Let me see whether the Sunday would be a fantastic weekend...!

See you tomorrow...!

Feeling like writing my diary...!

As I said in my yesterday's post, we have attended the marriage reception of my distant relative yesterday evening...! When we were about to return from that function I have got a call from my mother that my Chithappa (uncle) has come to invite us for his son's betrothal function on coming Monday..!

My son had enjoyed talking to him for a while...!

I would like to mention here again the fact that I really enjoy writing on my blog...! I have stopped writing diaries since the year 2000. But writing here gives me the same pleasure like writing a diary...! The only different is, this is open and transparent (But you know diaries are private)...!

One can write whatever they want to but without affecting others interests...! I know my limitations...!

and ... counting the days to get the good news about a new job...! For sure I will write about it here once I get it...!

So, KEEP VISITING...!!

Congrats Balaji...!!

Balaji, cousin brother will be getting married soon...! His parent fixed the betrothal function on 14th of this month...! We all have been invited...! Yet another opportunity for a family gathering...!

But I am really afraid whether we could make it on that day as my wife is advised not to make long travel.... Bodi, the place of the bride where the betrothal will took place is about 200 kms away from here...!

I have called him today over phone and wished him the best...! I am still not able to accept or believe we all have transformed from children to adult...! Childhood is the best part of anyone's life...!

About my job search, there are signs of positive improvements..! I hope I will post some good news here by next week...!

An interesting matter happened this lunch...! When I was preparing to return to my office from home, my son also preparing to come with me to my office...! I have consoled him that I will take him to my office on Sunday...!

The swing he played in our campus attracted him very much I guess...!

Today evening we will be attending a marriage reception of one of our distant relative...!

Hope the tomorrow will always be better than today...!

See you tomorrow...!!

It was a very happy Onam with family...!

I hope I have wrote here on 01st of this month only when I was out for Onam. The other days I was not able to find a browsing center as all of them were closed for Onam holidays...!

On the Onam day, I haven't been anywhere except having a good typical Onasadya for lunch...! The next day we have been to a tourist place called Veli in Trivandrum...!

There is a park and a boat house..! There were lots of Swings put up for the children to play...! My son got excited on seeing the Swings and wanted to play in it without our support..! I found it hard to take him from that place to another...!

Sometimes he played alone and some other time he shared the facility with other kids playing there...! Such a happy moment for the son to play and the father to watch...!

Then we have hired a separate pedal boat for us...! But the only hard thing about it is, I felt it very hard to pedal the boat (such a poorly maintained boat I guess...!).

It was really nice to be on the back waters of Kerala for a while...! Then we moved to the Shangu Mugam (The beach there)... Here my son played for a while but was frightened by a high tide rose over his head ....!

Then we moved on to the nearby park where he played a lot of Ratnams and playtoys..!

A point worth mentioning here is the Trivandrum airport which is very near to the sea...! The view from sky when landing will really be a fantastic thing which one cannot afford to miss..! I have flown to there couple of times and very much enjoyed it...!

See you tomorrow with my post about today...!

Today is our 4th Anniversary...!!!

Finally the rush is over for this academic year...! Its a sort of relief for everyone out here...! The admissions are over, we are returning to regular schedule...!!

Then ... today is our 4th anniversary...! Its been 4 years since we got married and my 'elder' son will be completing 3 years on 22nd of this month...! Today we woke up early in the morning and went to few temples in town...!

Few other are still pending. We are planning to go there this evening...! So I will be leaving my office 'early' today at 5.50 pm...! We will be attending a special pooja at Sri Lakshmi Narasinga Perumal Temple here...!

I will write about my Onam holidays tomorrow..! There are photos and videos to share with you...! I haven't brought my mobile phone's data cable to transfer them to my PC..! So my tomorrow's post will be having more multimedia...!

Let us meet tomorrow...!

Away from the internet...!

I have returned from Trivandrum last Friday night itself. There is an internet service outage due to some maintenance work in our town. As we have shifted to the new admin block, the internet connectivity will be available from tomorrow only. So now i am living away from the internet. Even i an using my mobile phone to publish this post. There are lot to write. Please bear with me until i write here tomorrow afternoon.

State mourns YSR's death

The state Government mourns the unexpected chopper crash death of the Andhra Pradesh Chief minister YS Rajasekara Reddy and announced tomorrow as a Government holiday. So i have stayed back here and decided to meet the doctor tomorrow instead of next Monday. So i will write again here on Saturday again..

The building construction and the wound...!

Today only I have noticed that I have done small spelling mistake in the verse

இன்னும் என் கனவுகளில் நீ I have wrote in my tamil blog !!! I havee corrected it little before...!

I have forgot to write about the wound I have got last Friday...! That evening about 7 pm I was just walking into a new building construction to see the progress of the construction at our college campus...!
I didnt watched something on the floor on which my right foot struck and I have stumbled a little ... In an attempt to balance myself, I have put my foot on a iron rod ... As I have slipped, the rod scratched on the side of my ankle and made an injury...
I have washed my leg with water. I have lost a good amount of blood. Now it is alright !!
Then about my yesterday we were just went out to roam around the festival bazaar and come back in the afternoon.
In the evening, we have been to the newly released Tamil Movie 'Kandhasamy'..! Its a mix of some old films in a new dimension....!!
Thats all about yesterday...!
Today I have no plans of going out but planning to work on the project I have wrote about in an another post earlier....!
I will try to keep you posted every day...!

The irritating train journey!!

Its good, I have got some time to spend on my blog!! Last Sunday I have reached Madurai at 1 pm !! My brother was waiting there for me...! As I had very little time to spend there and got to catch my train at 4 pm, I have decided not to go his home...! So we finished all the work and had our lunch in a hotel.
My brother dropped me in the railway station around 3.15 pm. As there were no trains since the morning, there was a huge crowd waiting to board the train which I was planning to go by...!
There is no other go, I have managed some how to get into the train as the first person, but still no luck. It was already full....
The train started on time, but the worst part of the journey came within 15 minutes.. The train was stopped on a signal and its stay there prolonged to another 2 hours... It was a terrible experience I have ever had on a train...! Standing for about 3 hours, finally I have got a place to sit...! (He was the only person get down in that whole compartment at that station)...
As I knew the pain of standing for a long time on a crowded train, I have asked two other elderly persons to share the seat with me....
I have reached Trivandrum at 1 am in the midnight....!