Baby

Some of you know it; some of you may have guessed it (from how Veena looks). Here is the official announcement. We are expecting our second baby, a little girl, due on November 22nd. We are very excited about it. Srinidhi knows about 'Ammu Papa' is in Amma's stomach, but we don't think he really knows what is waiting :) When we took him to visit couple of new baby arrivals of our friends, he didn't know how to react. He was scared/shy to go anywhere near the little ones. He clung on to us and only looked at them through the corner of his eyes. He did not know how to interact with such small babies; we didn't expect him to; just wanted to show to him so that he knows about little babies. We are also reading various ‘big brother’ stories to prepare him.
He does interact with babies that can crawl/walk, the ones that are six months or older. He usually is nice to them. So we think he will be nice to his sister after the initial days. We will wait and see.

 Karthikeyan said...

எங்கள் விட்டு இளவரசி வருகைக்கா காத்து கொன்டு இருக்கிறேன்.
வாழ்த்துகள் பல...

அன்புடன்
கார்த்திக்

September 09, 2005 2:59 PM

சிவன் கோயில்

There is this Siva temple in our street in Mannargudi, built by our forefathers long time ago. It has always been in a dilapidated condition as far as I remember (past 30 years). It wasn't a poor temple originally. It was given lot of land which was supposed to generate sufficient revenue for its upkeep and the poojas. But slowly, the land was illegally transferred and sold to others by the lessees. The temple became poorer by the year and couldn't afford poojas. When I was a kid, the temple was in such a bad shape, several cobra families made it their home; ten feet cobras were common there, and kids were forbidden to go anywhere near the temple. In the recent past, people in our street were sponsoring small scale poojas on irregular intervals; however, upkeep of the premise was out of question. It is only because of the quality of the original construction, the temple did not fall down completely. Finally, now, some locals are taking the initiative to renovate the temple and planning to have the rededication ceremony in few months. Here are the pictures from the renovation work.

India growing

I am bullish on India. And saying so to my friends for a while now. I am very optimistic about her ability grow fast to improve the standard of living for her people over the next several decades. Just came across this chart today and thought of sharing.

Happy birthday Lumin.

Reunion

Well, I started typing the following before I left for the weekend, but didn't get to publish since I had to rush. It stayed on my screen as I left. So here it is, the reason why I haven't blogged in four days.

It is hard to believe, it has been 14 years since I left college. Time flies. I used to be proud of knowing all guys by name from my batch, all 310 of them (or was it 314 or another number :-)). Anyway, we

Now that I am back, let me catch up on things and some sleep and I will write more extensive on the reunion.

 Anonymous said...

Your blog is very refreshing to read from time to time. It is like a beautiful story waiting to unfold every day!

Congratulations on becoming an US Citizen and hopefully you will remain patriotic towards the country you were born in.

Good Luc to your extending family and Happiness Always!

September 09, 2005 1:23 AM

 Shan R Shanmuganathan said...

Thank you very much for the compliment. I absolutely love my motherland India AND adopted home US. Keep visiting. Cheers.

September 09, 2005 8:05 AM