Singapore Botanical Garden on Christmas day, 201...
Sunday, 26 December 2010
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
You'll Never Dance Alone(YNDA) concert 2010
Watching kids in their own world is great fun in itself. We travel backwards in time and relate to our own experiences. Waiting in the dressing room 'patiently', waiting for our turn to put on makeup (mostly teachers to apply it on us), last minute touch ups, rehearsals etc are great fun at a first glance, but back then, new costumes induced itchiness and if its not really fitting, it gave an uncomfortable feeling.Lipstick made us smile artificially...
Sunday, 21 November 2010
Christmas thoughts!!
Back at home, Christmas arrived with foggy winter mornings, aroma of fruit cakes, fragrance of dewy pink roses, merriment of holidays after exams, Christmas carols at night, glittery paper-stars decorating the entrance of every home, seasonal bazaars selling new year and Christmas greeting cards and sparklers.Of all these,journey through the rugged mountain terrains of Kerala with hair pin roads and the vacation spent in the eastern...
Monday, 15 November 2010
Time!!
Clocks in our home are all set to different time.Clocks in the living room, kitchen and master bedroom run fifteen minutes faster while those in papa's and Achu's rooms sync with Starhub set top box. My watch is set five minutes ahead of acutal time and I almost forgot where from I picked up this habit of living 'ahead' of time. This is a puzzle for our little Achu.
On Saturday afternoon, Achu and myself were rushing...
Friday, 12 November 2010
Memoirs of a distant past!!
On a Sunday afternoon I was busy tidying up my cupboard when a medium sized thick lock book with light pink plastic hard cover and floral design caught my attention. I couldn't go ahead but sit and read the contents cover to cover. Its my 'autograph'- name given to a personal diary where friends jot down short messages at the time of parting. Even after sixteen long years the cover looked polished except a rusting lock and a hairline...
Sunday, 24 October 2010
Deepavali in Singapore!!
As the dusk settled, the streets of Little India were buzzling with cars, people on shopping spree and onlookers like us taking snaps and enjoying the colours, fragance and frenzy of deepavali bazar. The streets glowed in electric blue, purple, yellow and orange lights. Home far away from home was in all its beauty.Every festival comes with lot of happiness, energy and hope and when it leaves, there is a silent promise to...
Friday, 15 October 2010
'Lars'ified Week!!
11 Oct-15 Oct ~~ A week 'Lars'ified by training, Danish candies, Good humour, Good food and Good English.
Lars introduced me to Danish 'Licorise'. According to Wikipedia 'Salty liquorice, salmiak or salmiakki is a variety of liquorice that contains a relatively large amount of ammonium chloride ("salmiac") in addition to the liquorice root extract, sugar and starch or gum arabic that constitute regular liquorice. Ammonium chloride has a spicy...
Sunday, 26 September 2010
Mid-Autumn festival in Singapore
The mid-autumn festival is here and we can see moon cakes everywhere in Singapore. Thanks to all the wonderful colleagues for those delicious moon cakes. Chinatown as usual is buzzing with locals and tourists and we had an unplanned quick visit last weekend, to see the lanterns, the shops, the tourists and the shopkeepers trying to coax tourists into their shops. Walking along the footpath I felt an air of merriment and relaxation.Tourists...
Sunday, 19 September 2010
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Singapore's first 'snake boat' race
When I witnessed Singapore's first 'snake boat' race
This was conducted at Chinese Garden in association with Onam festival. The boats were nowhere near the authentic snake boats (chundan vallam) from Kerala. In God's own country, this is a sport which exhibits great degree of team spirit and held in connection with Onam. For enthusiastic expat malayalis of Singapore this was an attempt to clone the celebrations and enjoy it with the...
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Five Hundred Miles
Achu playing Five Hundred Miles!!
The pallavi of the hindi song "Jab Koi Baat Bigad Jaaye" sounds so much like this!!
Beautiful music and lyrics...
Jab koi baat bigad jaaye jab koi mushkil pad jaaye
Tum dena saath mera o humnawaaz...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue33F72P...
Sunday, 15 August 2010
Thursday, 12 August 2010
The paradise of flamboyant birds at Jurong Bird Park!!
If you ask me to choose between Jurong Bird Park and the Singapore Zoo(the best visit ever to the zoo was two years back when it was drizzling and we roamed around in our raincoats!! how wonderful is to feel the rain without getting wet), I would definitely go for the bird park. Birds are so vibrant and flamboyant. Aren't they as colourful as flowers??? Why are animals not made so??? The higher forms of life might have evolved to look...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Oh my darling Clementine-by Aish!!
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Sunday, 25 July 2010
NDP rehearsal on 24 July 2010
Kannan is the first to wake up on weekends. It was not different yesterday morning as well. Both Sajeev and I rushed to catch the 11 0' clock show of 'Inception' at Causeway Point in Woodlands. After two and a half hours of watching rapid thrilling moments of dream invasion my mind was in a maze (mess???). Entering the spiral/circular stairs from the carpark of Marina Square, rushing to watch...
Friday, 23 July 2010
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever"-Singapore Garden Festival 2010
very cute miniature landscape-loved it
passion
nature's wonderful colour sense!!!
The hat tilted over his face remided me of MJ ...
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