Tamil New Year Lunch

This is yet another late post. This is to showcase what all I cooked for Tamil New year. The Lunch was yummy and delicious.

I made more than 12 dishes. All traditional Tamil dishes which turned out to be tastiest lunch.

We dumped ourselves with these exotic dishes and celebrated the day.

Post on these recipes soon

The pictures turned out to be great.

Project 365 : Welcoming Tamil New Year

Iniya Tamizh Nal Valzhthukal!

Welcoming this new year with Mango leaves (Maa ilai).

Happy Tamil New Year. Today happened to be my hubby's star bday. I cooked almost 13 food items today. Food posts coming soon..



Project 365 : Abandoned Chirstmas Tree

Spotted. A Xmas Tree was found near stairs after holiday season!

Welcome 2012

      Welcoming each New Year fills up my heart with happiness, excitment and feel of responsibility. 'To do this year'  is my favourite activity. I have made nearly 100 activties for this year.

     I spent this New Year day with my parents and brother. The day was awesome. My mom gave me "Authentic Indian Milk Sweet' (Paal Peda) to start this wonderful year. One fact about this year is it being a leap year.


This shot was taken from the 3rd floor cafe of my work building.



       So let me write all my good, precious moments in this page for me to go through atleast on New Year Eves.Good rise in your goals, life and love is all I expect in this year . Moving towards what I want.

       I wish everyone a very happy and healthy New Year.

Activity 100 : Starting the New Year with Lights

One of the finest five star Hotel wound with lights. Treat to eyes. Getting ready to face New Year

Activity 100 : Merry Christmas

Merry Chirstmas

And wish you end this year with class, joy, happiness.

Look ahead for a new, exciting start.

Activity 100 : Hello Holidays

Christmas is fast approaching. I clicked few Christmas tree. I love christmas tree. As I have already mentioned, I want to decorate a chirstmas tree with beautiful simple ornaments.

Anyways, say hello to Holidays

=)

Activity 100 : Festival of light

Karthigai 2011

Activity 100 : BDay Cake

 

Though , I was all alone this bday, my few most loved people very close to my heart wished me. They made my day. Thanks to my family (Nishok,Dad,Mom,Krishna) , people who love me and my friends.

Thanks a lot.

My mom and dad presented me a fantastic chudidhar. Loved it.

Activity 100 : Thanks Giving Day

Thanks to all my loved ones. I always adore loving my people and being loved.

Happy Turkey Day.

I really want to experience all these special occasions esp  dinners

Activity 100 : Kolam

This is an art done with Rice powder mixed with water. We do this on festival day to express something good is going on in the home.

I  love doing this art around our house on festival days. One such art is shown above.

Try this. It is very easy.

Rangola Rangola Rangoli

As our favourite festival is fast approaching , all are gearing up to shop the latest outfits, jewels, footwear, and esp crackers.

Most of them in workplace were not able to  concentrate on their work. Hence our cilents grabbed this time to conduct fun activities for employees for a week.

For today , It was Rangoli competition. One would have seen colours all over splashed , spread over their designs and around. There were 5 teams I guess. I just captured all the rangolis as gesture of participation.

 

I liked this one very much :)

=)

Hope everyone enjoyed this competition. Advance Diwali wishes..

Activity 100 : Our Gollu 2011

Small Gollu

I love Navarathri

Gollu 2011 : Photographic Post

This year, I made a good arrangement for Gollu. I applied for a day off and did all the arrangement myself. After completeing a small but neat Gollu, I felt satisfied and happy. I invited all my close relatives and friends.

Everyone I called came to visit our Gollu. Mr. N gave a good company. My creativity nerve  also contributed a bit to this event this year. I made Lord Ganesha and Lord Shiva out of colourful clay blocks. I was thrilled.

Most important thing which made me happy is my parents made it from Thanjavur to visit my small gollu. I was excited to the core.

Check out the pictures of our Gollu 2011.

Gollu 2011 as a whole

Chettiar doll in his shop

First thing to be kept to start a Gollu : Kumbam
We decorate it as a Goddess and worship as the same

Wooden Indian doll. A must keep doll in Indian Gollu

Goddess Durga

Goddess Lakshmi

Goddess Saraswathi

Mr. N's Childhood dolls

Doll gifted by Mr.N

Lord Shiva made of Clay

Lord Ganesha made of clay

Lord Ganesha made of clay

 Hope you enjoyed my Gollu 2011.

Activity 100 :Heart's Reflection

Took this snap on a Navarathri day. Loved the heart very much and relished its reflection on it too..

Day Zero .. Navarathiri Special

Navarathiri is a very grand , authentic , colourful festival which signifies the importance of woman in a family /society.

Three Goddess are being worshipped in all the 9 days of Navarathri festival.

Nava means Nine. These nine days are split into 3 parts and each 3 days are dedicated to each Goddess.

We worship

Durga(Parvathi) - Goddess of braveness and boldness ;

Lakshmi - Goddess of wealth

Saraswathi - Goddess of arts , intellect.

During the Day Zero, Construction of steps to arrange dolls (Gollu) and decorations are being done.

Arrangement of dolls are done.

All these nine days, we cook different sundals ( rich in protein).

We invite friends and family to visit our Gollu.

We dress up in traditional wear or ethinic one.

Music fills our house.. Good music..

Exchange of gifts are being done.

Love this festival ....

More on next posts..

PS .. This arrangement is done by my mom in Thanjavur...Awesome isnt it?

Will post my gollu in Chennai

;)

Navarathri - Colourful festival in India

I have come up with an idea of wrtiting about Navarathri for these 10 days. This is all about the festival, speciality of each day, songs, visits to relatives, visitors, dolls,etc.

These blog posts will have only tradition followed in this post.