Showing posts with label Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Festival. Show all posts
Monday, February 03, 2020
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Saturday, January 25, 2020
Pongal 2020
Mom's colorful floral Kolam |
It’s more than a week since Pongal passed off gracefully, and as expected we had a traditional Pongal made
in earthen pot and firewood stove into the balcony, just like the previous
year. The day began with mom and aunt drawing colourful Kolams at the gateway
and below the balcony (what you seen in the previous post) and we got ready
wearing the latest cloths and skipped the breakfast to have an early lunch with
Pongal. Mom arranged for the bricks and firewood
a day earlier to the festival and late in the morning of Pongal aunt joined mom
in preparing Pongal and arranging of things.
The Pongal pot bubbled up well and
sustained in its overflowing state sometime for me to capture the moment. Though it is believed as a sign of welcoming
the year and good harvest, I see the real happiness and concern was getting together
with the family of uncle and thanksgiving the nature in unison because Pongal isn’t
a religious festival to hold back into the home, it is a dedication to farmers and
nature what coexists in deciding our food and stepping out of home is where
lies all. Other than the day with Thai Pongal, with holidays extended up to 5 days
wasn’t anything special and the television programs weren’t interesting and the
movies relayed were also already watched in online streams. As usual I went
around the neighbourhood to capture Pongal Kolams drawn in front of the houses
and found very few color Kolams drawing my attention. And I think of sharing it
in another post.
Monday, January 20, 2020
RGB Monday
Colorful Pongal Kolams by mom and aunt
Kolam is a cultural identity of Tamils,
as well as to the southern states of India similar as Rangoli that spread all-over
India, is believed to bring auspicious to home when it is drawn in front of the
doorway or gateway as a sign of welcome. Margali, a month of winter (mid Dec-Jan)
in Tamil, is a favourite season for Kolam, where those skipped or unpractised
it as a daily activity will make certain drew something in front of the door
and the month ends leaving way to Thai – the day celebrated as Pongal, where
Kolams take much colourful form from the plain dotted Kolams. Pulli Kolam is a
regular art form where it involves drawing a line looped around a pattern of
dots (pullis) with certain that all dots are encircled and lines closed at the
end.
Shot from the balcony and you could see my aunt coloring the Kolam down in front of home. |
Kolam take a special place in our
every custom and celebrations and drawing a Kolam creates an elegancy to the
occasion and there couldn’t be a better reception than making a smile through a
cheerful and colourful Kolam. Mom used
to draw Kolam regularly at the doorstep until we resided in the ground floor
apartment and houses in ground, now living on first floor we don’t have space other
than mom’s knee pain prevents her going down to drew a Kolam. But during the festival
of Pongal and other special occasions she takes a strain and draw colourful Kolams
in front of the house, and now along with my aunt in next door they help each
other creating the magic of colors, Kolam. I always have an interest in Kolalm and
never miss an opportunity in capturing the Kolam and what you see here is from
the recent Pongal celebration.
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Celebration of Harvest – Pongal Festival
Pongal, the traditional festival of Tamils is left by two days. Tradition is something I always admire and I
believe everything has some scientific reasons behind our customs and
traditions what in later days turned relevant to faith. Pongal, the harvest
festival of south India is a thanksgiving to farmers, cattle’s and nature in
support of cultivation, though it is celebrated all over India in different
names and custom, the core intention was to stand up for the farmers who the
reason for our daily food.
A simple Pongal kolam or rangoli from the neighborhood, last year. |
I see Pongal brings new spirit to
life and by celebrating the festival I feel grateful for the farmers and
anything related to farming and food processing. ‘Suriya Pongal’ is another
aspect of the festival devoted to prime source Sun (Suriya-n) where the Pongal
pot is placed in open area where the sunlight falls, and by boiling the rice
from newly harvested crop is a way of thanking its light and energy fuelling in
cultivating crops. And ‘Thai Pongal’ is another term refers to Pongal which
meant the beginning of Tamil month Thai, according to Tamil calendar, and the
month when the harvest begins is believed to bring hope and ways to live with
harvested grains.
A earthen pot on firewood stove getting ready to cook Pongal, from the previous pongal festival a couple of years back. |
This year the Pongal extends into
the weekend, following Pongal, Maattu Pongal and Kaanum Pongal on 15, 16 and 17
respectively to 18 and 19 as weekend. Though the holidays doesn’t going to do
anything with me or change across, but I could end up watching TV programs on
special days after try to make firewood Pongal in the balcony, just like the
previous year, and others could be the routine. One thing special about this
Pongal is I gonna watch the programs and movies in my new big Led TV. Lol
Though Pongal is a piece of cake
to us compared to villages and small towns where the celebration is whole, I
always try to connect the feel and think back the times at grandparents’ home
and visits to villages on Maattu (Bull) Pongal to take part in their
celebrations, where cattle’s are decorated and their shelters being cleaned and
worshiped and kids taking joy rides in bullock carts, to cherish myself to pick
up the energy to go further. I think a festival mood couldn’t be enrich unless
added some people to make my belief true that festivals are to be celebrated
together with people rather making it a custom to celebrate alone or mark it as
holidays only. I always wish to celebrate festivals along with people or at
least surrounded by dear ones. I wish people from India a Happy Pongal and
Makar Shankranti!
Monday, December 30, 2019
RGB Monday
Festive season sieve
troubles, to make happiness
slid through tiny holes.
troubles, to make happiness
slid through tiny holes.
P.s. Hope you find the red, green and blue ornaments hung from a live christmas tree grown in the courtyard of my uncle's woodhouse at Thandikudi, near Kodaikanal. I capture the image from my last vacation in July and the ornaments weren't removed from the tree after festive season was over, but I loved seeing them pretty hung through the evergreen tree. Wishing you all Very Happy, Peaceful and Prosperous Pretty New Year, 2020!
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Merry Christmas
My simple Christmas tree and
light decoration on the balcony! I really don’t want to decorate the Christmas
tree this year but got an idea later to simply tie two poles in shape of cone
in the gate and put lights around it and hung some ornaments and items I made
with Popsicle sticks from last year. I tried this for a change from the regular
Christmas tree. I put blue colour led serial lights on the balcony rail so it over
exposed the other colours lights on the tree setting.
I Wish you all Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year
Friday, November 01, 2019
Fireworks @ Skywatch Friday
Deepavali – the festival of lights – just passed like a blink of light and flash of an
aerial firework that treat eyes for few seconds. For my cousin sister, who got
married in June, this was her Thala (first) Deepavali after the marriage so she
had come home with groom, following an invite by us as per the custom. Thala
Deepavali is treated special for every newly married couple that follows the tradition
and I could see they had good time cheering the festival of lights in pretty
new cloths and spirited while bursting crackers. I wonder how she enjoyed
bursting crackers what I haven’t seen in a while, as she ever showed
interesting on crackers was different on that day that I could understand it’s
all the magic of newly married.
I had
a great night that day watching the fireworks that made the new moon sky dazzle
in display of colourful fireworks. I felt the crackers sounded a bit louder at
my surrounding this year than the previous and many in the neighbourhood had
lit auto bombs (and loud crackers) to disturb the ear eardrums and to the
unusual my cousin too created some dreadful sound despite my unlikeliness. I’m
always against loud crackers and particular about the choice of fireworks I buy
that emit less sound and smoke. I enjoy watching fireworks either on the sky or
ground level, the emitting of light and sound and the rush of fire creates an
emotion that embark to a state of different and light-heartedness. I had fun
lighting sparklers, the only firework I could handle enough but I liked
capturing fireworks in video and photo modes.
I
share here some fireworks that lit my sky and the images in collages were all shot
from the balcony. I planned to go out during the Deepavali eve to see things happening
around but couldn’t move out a bit rather taking the backstreets in wheelchair.
I usually go out a day before or on Deepavali night to watch for fireworks displayed
in the neighbourhood even though I had the opportunity this time something conscious
prevented me. Glad I could watch some
from the balcony and shoot as well.
Galaxies created by fireworks |
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Deepavali and Its Electric Feel
Deepavali or Diwali – which is around the corner (Oct 27) doesn’t need an intro to the
world, and India is a multicultural nation with each has its own richness of colours,
dynamic, values and unique practices progresses with zeal; and Diwali is a
festival unites the nation under the limelight called festival of lights, just
like the festival of colours - Holi. Every part of the country has a reason and
belief to celebrate Diwali with common intent of good against evil and light in
place of darkness. Though not everyone celebrates Diwali in India and you
really don’t need to celebrate the festival but the mood of the festival of
lights is delight! Those who grew up in 90s and 80s and further decades below
would knew the real essence and spirit of Deepavali or any other festival in
common, and we as kids used to begin the celebration weeks ahead to Diwali by
bursting little firecrackers that we buy from the petti shops in neighbourhood.
Deepavali
is an uplifting feeling leap off every year during the festival time and it has
something to do with me, perhaps it was a favourite time of the year for me from
the beginning and bursting fireworks was the intention behind the enthusiasm. During
school days, we draw Diwali greetings on the black board on the last day in
school before the Deepavali holiday and what we draw was rockets, flower pot
fountains, sparklers… and some terror boys drew Lakshmi vedi, auto bombs and
electric crackers and the girl students drew Diyas. Those days Deepavali means fireworks
and still I could not imagine a Deepavali without the same and the sound of
firecrackers. I don’t encourage the sound and I too stopped buying fireworks
that exits sound, except for the Aerial shots, I handle only sparklers.
Apart
fireworks, Deepavali is a festival of sweets and this was the only time that we
make sweets and snacks at home. But these days many prefer buying sweets from
the shops perhaps because of laziness or workload where they are not ready or
impossible to spend time on preparing snacks at home. During our resident at
apartment (from 2005-2013) we get to taste different sweets and snacks shared
by the neighbours but we ever turned from Adhirasam and Murukku – the
traditional sweet and snack that mark Deepavali. The Adhirasam made of rice
flour and jiggery and Murukku with same flour and other ingredients produces a
distinct sense and cheerfulness as we go through the smell and hunger for same.
The snacks were later distributed to relatives and friends the same way we’re
treated by them.
Though
new cloths are part of the festival, like any other festivals, Deepavali clothes
has a special place and this was the time where purchases reach the peak and
offers come in grand what people never wanted to miss. The online shopping has
took a huge leap these days, where the festival rush to shopping streets and
malls had gradually decreased and the great Indian festivals at online websites
and apps like Amazon becomes an advantage to people who lookout for low-price
and stress-free shopping experience. I remember going to shopping for Deepavali
and Pongal festivals, when I was a kid,
even though I wasn’t much interested on dresses that was a time new dress made
sense and gave happiness showing it to others. Only in last couple of years I
took shirts for Deepavali and this year that too was nil, as I got stitched
dress only lately, but generally I wasn’t interested shopping on special
occasions.
For
me it was the feeling, the cheerfulness of celebrating a festival and gathering
of people and cherishing the memories that I hold dear from past celebrations
makes Deepavali special. For me the past is always significant, not only because
those moments unreturned but hold back the spirit and becomes a force to take
forward. I believe a festival is to celebrate
and a celebration is impossible without sharing. For me Deepavali bring a feel
of togetherness, what the sounds of fireworks on this day reproduce and I don’t
see bursting fireworks as a rite or reasonable act but I like watching firework
display that happens only during Deepavali and I buy some on my personal interest.
Enjoy your day and have fun.
Monday, October 14, 2019
Grandma’s Golu
My grandmother has been keeping Golu at her home for less than a decade, except
couple of years due to grandfather’s illness and demise, she follows the custom
of arranging dolls yearly during the Navaratri festival. Navaratri, which means nine nights, is a
Hindu festival celebrated in devotion of the goddess of power, wealth and
knowledge and the end of the festival (10th day) is celebrated as
Vijayadashami or Dussehra.
This
year she couldn’t get support from anyone in setting up stairs for arranging the
dolls, so she just filled dolls on cupboard, table and on floor. The dolls are
a collection from her various trips to north Indian states and some other decorative
items are handmade by grandma. Here I share some photos on grandmother’s Golu
this year and the images were shot by mom with camera.
Here's a set of two south indian customs of marriage (on left) and first tonsure and ear boring of a child (on right). |
A set of playing cricket |
A rural setting of village and market |
This looks like a setting of forest and tribal lifestyle |
Tuesday, October 08, 2019
Ayudha Poojai Thoughts
Ayudha Poojai is a festival occasion that was so delightful once and full of joy, in
the presence of my late maternal uncle, and the celebration take place at my
uncle’s car workshop right in front of our courtyard. Begin in year 1990 at the
courtyard of our house, he headed the workshop till his last breath in Dec 2001,
where ended all our celebrations, though my younger maternal uncle led the
workshop which is in condition of almost closed, no one could replace his place
and an anticipation itself is wrong. Generous is one word I could describe
about him and his personality is something unique and could be among an million
but destiny gave him short life.
Ayudha Poojai is a festival celebrated at the workplaces and houses wherever people
deals with mechanical devices or machines and it is a festival related to
prosperity and worshipping of the goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. Ayudha Poojai is
a festival time to remember quite my uncle, because it is him occupies our
thoughts during this occasion or hearing the word Ayudha Poojai is irresistible
recollecting the memories of his presence and dearness we hold. I thought of
writing something about the festival celebrated but everything I think about the
festival reads his face in flashes as memories.
The
spirit of Ayudha Poojai is long lost or missed but thinking of past make sense
and this time the festival came around the weekend, though every day is not
unusual to me, with the thought of people celebrating around I felt cherish. Today
my cousin conducts Ayudha Poojai at his bike service centre and yesterday my brother
celebrated at his gym/fitness centre attended by parents and few close
relatives/friends. I see there’s less in
celebration or spirit prevail among people or at work places it exists plainly
a formality or divine worship unlike those days which was a celebration of
whole and keeping festival at core the activities surrounds it bring cheers. I’m
glad for my conscious mind-set that gets caught fire through sparking thoughts.
Wednesday, September 04, 2019
Ganesh Chaturthi at Home and Neighborhood
Home Ganesh |
One of the
prominent Indian festivals, Ganesh Chaturthi, celebrated on Monday and we too
had a piece of the event at home. Dad bought Ganesh clay idol from the
temporary street shops selling the idols and other elements for the worship and
by the end of the noon things came to conclude and we had lunch with dishes
offered for the Ganesh. The day was celebrated in front of the television and
by the evening the clay idol was left in a bucket of water – the usual way of dissolving
the idol that we are following for more than a decade.
The clay idol left in a bucket of water to dissolve |
The clay idols
are designed to drop in rivers by the time where rivers are flooded following
the rains, but the climate change or delay in rains had left rivers dry during
this season forced people to look after lakes, ponds and sea. Many in the neighbourhood,
including my cousin drove to the beach to drop their idols but we found this method
(dissolve in bucket of water and use it later for trees/plants) comfort and eco-friendly.
I always keep this upfront to encourage others to follow this easy and need of
the hour… but we can’t force unless they wake up. In the evening there was a
cart procession from the street end Ganesh temple but as soon they started the
rain interrupt and delayed the procession and the time it come over our place I
had dinner, so couldn’t take proper photos and the one at below comes from dad.
The cart procession shot from the balcony - actually there's two Ganesh Temples in our area and only one took to street on Ganesh Chaturthi (monday) and the other temple cart is postponed to Sunday. |
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Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Mulaipari - A technology to choose right seeds!
Carrying over
the head, Mulaipari (pots growing with nine different kinds of grains) is a
traditional south Indian festival popular in Tamil Nadu and takes place mostly
in Tamil Month called Adi (July-August). Adi is a month celebrated all-over the
Amman (goddess) Temples and carrying Mulaipari is a kind of offering to the
goddess, and traditionally prevailing legacy requesting good rain and fertility
of land, in order to secure a rich harvest. Most of the Amman temples still follow
this tradition which is intense in villages, where farmers preserve a part of
their harvested grains yearly in order to use in next season and to check the
standard of the seeds the Mulaipari is conducted.
At the villages
or towns, they built a strip shed close to the Amman Temples and on the day
beginning of the festival Mulaipari (nine kinds of grains) are cast at the shed
and the women in the villages gather over there and throw 21 varieties of seed
grains and grow them over the next nine days. During the nine days, women sing
and dance around the Mulaipari praying the goddess for a good harvest and on
the day ten Mulaipari is carried over by the women on the baskets as a
procession towards the temple is offered to the goddess. In this process whose
Mulaipari has grown well will share the seeds with others or that who’s
Mulaipari doesn’t show up. This traditionally conducting festival is celebrated
to bring prosperity along the way to farming and it’s supporting natural
sources.
Moreover,
seeing the growth of the crops in Mulaipari, the year’s yields is calculated
and so was taking Mulaipari is considered as a rite. Cultivating Mulaipari
isn’t just a rite or worshiping but a technique to pick out the seeds of vigour
to agriculture and cultivate quality seeds for next cultivation comfortable
from their villages itself and it is a festival in name of Mulaipari
celebrates technology!
The
Mulaipari captured in the images above was shot at Pannaikadu; a mountain
village slightly diverted from the road to Kodaikanal on the Ghats section.
Pannaikadu is just about 13km from my uncle’s woodhouse and cottages in
Thandikudi and we come across this Mulaipari procession during a course to
Kodaikanal while staying at the woodhouse last month. Women cladded in
colourful sarees carried the Mulaipari baskets on their heads and some with
milk pots walking to their destined temple. Pannaikadu has many temples and
people out there seems to have great devotion and faith on god and on Fridays
no meat shop is opened there perhaps because Friday is consider auspicious to
go on fast and most of them here worships lord Murugar.
Monday, June 17, 2019
Sister’s Wedding @ Mamallapuram
My sister got married on Friday at our ancestral town Mamallapuram, about 45 km from here on ECR and I attended
both the events – the reception at night and marriage in morning – by staying a
night from a guesthouse there. Though the wedding turned out eventful and
content packed there was something couldn’t make feel relaxed or comfort at
certain level i.e. the wedding hall was in the first floor with no lift! It was a marriage happened within kinship and
my sister (cousin) is married to her maternal uncle’s son and it was their desire
to go together in life and we all approved their decision after small
hesitations, since we were looking for a bridegroom outside the relative circle
this was unexpected and we couldn’t say no as it was her life and she has all
rights to decide her companion and thus marriage was fixed and following an engagement
in February.
My sister was sent off early in the afternoon (of Thursday) to Mamallapuram
to get ready for the evening reception and bride inviting and we planned to
leave by 4 pm in evening so that we could relax before the event begin by 6 pm.
But we left home only by 6! Though we reached there in an hour things were to
be hurried up. We had booked two vans for the relatives, friends and neighbors
to cover the distance also arrived late to delay the pace and my sister went
directly to the nearest temple from the beauty parlor - as per the custom, the
bride will be invited to the wedding hall following a procession from temple,
either by car or walk about, which signifies the beginning of wedding process
in Indian culture. Already the crowd perched the hall when we arrived and there
wasn’t time for anyone to spare me to transfer me to the marriage hall in first
floor and it was packed further to make transfer difficult, so I settled in the
ground floor courtyard where couple of rows seated and a shamiana tent was
spread out with popcorn and cotton candy stalls installed where people thronged
despite age differences.
I happened to meet and see many
people during the occasion, where many of them were long seen and as I seated
in a corner some couldn’t notice me as I did but glad there was a LED screen
placed in the courtyard where I watched the live happening on the reception.
The dining hall was in ground floor so it wasn’t an issue to have dinner but
the tables aren’t comfortable for me and I was to use my regular wheelchair
tray and plate instead eating from banana leaf, which takes a special place in
our festivals. Being late to the venue
and beginning of the event it extended beyond 10 pm, when we had our dinner and
moved to the room, which is a walkable distance from the wedding hall that I covered in wheelchair. I couldn’t participate in the wedding
reception but I was content attending the special occasion of my sister and I
was transfer to the wedding hall in the morning to watch the ceremony with help
of my brothers and his friends. The
wedding was attended by close relatives alone so it wasn’t much difficult to
transfer me by shifting to a chair and then to wheelchair, I got to watch
things happening on the stage from the first row.
But what really turned out difficult
was the timing. The marriage ceremony that held between 6 to 7.30am is quite an
inconvenient for us whose wakeup time is not less than 8 am and for the 6 am
ceremony I waked up at 5 but still went half a way through the marriage rite. The
brides sat on the decorated stage in traditional wears of Dhoti and Saree and I
felt they looked beautiful and fresh in the morning than in the elaborated
makeup for the night reception. The marriage is conducted by the bridegroom
family, so we haven’t to decide anything and the wedding hall was also their
choice as it located very close to their house. I feel there was something
missing which I couldn’t say what but I could transparently see the happiness
on my sister’s face despite the exhaustion went through wedding process. We
couldn’t spend much time with the brides rather hurriedly taking photos, the
couple were sent off to Tirupati temple (about 200 km from Mamallapuram) as
soon the breakfast is over and we moved out of the marriage hall and check out
the room and fired back to home. Both the dinner and breakfast was good enough
and this was quite a wedding I attended after a cousin’s marriage in 2012. I
hope my sister led a happy married life and being a known family I believe she feels the
comfort of home.
Apart the celebration of
marriage, the day out there was terrific and the weather was burning to ashes
once out of the wedding hall! The air con in car couldn’t control the heat wave
even at high speed and I couldn’t remember how we reached home so was the
sultry weather blurred the senses. We checked out our guesthouse room (Sri
Murugan) by 11 am and I felt it was too pricey for a night with two to three cots
in a room with no blankets and air con with no control to reduce cold. Moreover
they denied allowing our pet dog, which they agreed when our relative inquired
and so we booked the room. I had no chance to capture any photos and what you
see here were few shot by mom.
Monday, February 18, 2019
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My aunt's colorful Pongal Kolam drawn last month during the festival of Pongal, very next to mom's Pongal pot kolam.
Kolam is a custom followed by the households in south India and it’s a daily activity for many, including ours. And Pongal Kolam is popular during this time and many put great efforts to make it look wonderful and colourful including drawing something relevant to the festival. Kolam always been my favourite thing and I enjoy watching different patterns and for me, Kolam is apart any belief and its way of exhibiting art and beauty.
Monday, February 04, 2019
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My aunt's sparrow kolam for the New Year
Kolam is a custom followed by the households in south India
and it’s a daily activity for many, including ours. Kolam always been my favourite thing and I
enjoy watching different patterns and for me, Kolam is apart any belief and its
way of exhibiting art and beauty.
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Friday, January 18, 2019
Pongal 2019
I still going through the painful
arm (read here if you missed) at night and the muscle spasm have formed well on the upper arm and it’s
taking time to heal. Being a muscular dystrophy, with weaker muscles, an
extension in healing is no wonder. But I could feel better than earlier and still
shifting positions kicks pain and I continue to ice and heat therapy. In between
we had a far better Pongal and after 2010 we got to celebrate Pongal along with
our uncle’s family who lives adjacent and the extended balcony (for my wheelchair
movement) has gave enough space to lit firewood stove and Pongal was cooked in
mud pot. Pongal is a harvesting festival of Tamil and thanksgiving to nature that
nurture our lives and making Pongal in open space means dedicate to the prime natural
source Sun and make thought the year become all success and happier.
Making of sweet Pongal by boiling rice, milk and jaggery |
The weather is pretty cool all these
days and the sun is bright enough to balance the heat and the Pongal was cooked
despite the warm sunlight that kept producing heat. The night before Pongal,
mom and aunt got their hands on beautifying our front yard or the space between
the road and our house and both made two colourful Kolams aka Rangoli using colour
powders. First time mom took effort to draw a big Kolam after her surgery in
May, though it is a simple kolam for her but just put this effort for me
as I love kolams. Every year she used to
draw Pongal Kolam and adds colors according to the design and this time along
with the aunt they turned more colourful the way it used to be. Other than
paying homage to nature esp. the sun, and making Pongal on the balcony the days
were spent mostly on TV and i went around our streets in the evening to check neighbours
Kolam but to my disappointment most of them had drawn small Kolam or design
which I would sharing in another post. Hope you liked our celebration.
View on other two kolams by aunt, from balcony |
Sunday, December 30, 2018
Happy New Year
The year has
come to end and a New Year is beaming in front of us, flashing rays of hope
that should be only taken as betterment to lead us into the future, to be a fruitful
to anyone looking out for changes in life, in a prospect of sour security, skinny
web of friends and family as enclosure to the lavishing lush and red pupil
heart of love, turning the lives into meaningful, kindest and sweetest towards eternal.
Let’s wish for a change or continue to sail as long it’s peaceful, successful, and
useful to throw lives into organic, healthy and happy.
Wish you all
Happy New Year again!
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Christmas Craftworks
Begin 2011, I decorate
Christmas tree every year, except 2013 and 2015 a disaster year for me and my
city (Dec flood), I put lights and star to feel and get involve myself with the
festive while people celebrates around. Usually I purchase ornaments for Christmas
tree either from the shop or online twice a year, as most of them are made of thermocol
(polystyrene) it don’t last few years. But this year I decided to make some
ornaments using Popsicle sticks to see how well I could treat myself with the activities
and I got many ideas browsing the net and I decided to stick with simple craftwork
like stars, wreath, tiny trees, house etc. And I enjoyed painting them all. Here are few photos on craftwork that I later
hanged on the Christmas tree.
My gingerbread house that was turned into stone house by my sweet grandmother. The other two beside the house is santa hat haha |
Birth of Christ |
My christmas tree with the ornaments I made with popsicle sticks |
Monday, December 24, 2018
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Sunday, December 16, 2018
Sunday Photos: Sparkle Fun
During
Deepavali I took some fun shots, where I asked my dad to move burning sparkle fireworks
in random directions to get these shapes. Every year I used to take some snaps using
the firework mode on camera, lighting the sparkles to move in different
directors to catch some interesting fire traces. This year it was performed on
our balcony, so the moves were restricted to get some simple yet interesting
ones.
This give me a perspective of first Tamil letter à®… (A) |
And this looks as Tamil letter à®’ (O) |
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