Digest of FRIENDS ARE FUN: Reunion - 2012 Edition

Digest of FRIENDS ARE FUN: Reunion - 2012 Edition
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We had a bash...good time...fun and that too together....
played ever favourite volleyball and cricket...sparks flying ... saudi style... but with lower vocal and heat quotients...
as usual snack counter operated with love by Sanjay and Durga...supported by gandhi uncle and aunty with home baked groundnuts...
fj'ed by gopi (fj - floor jockey)...  all danced on the floor and in rain (albeit artificial) ....
dance floor lit up with Youngest Star - Senior Citizen Dr Chendrayudu and two new finds .... namrata and sonu...and all the 'guys' n 'girls'
Shiela+Munni+Chikni Chameli all decided to retire from dancing after ..our little nammu beating them for the CUP....
first dancing somersault by Sonu....
this time dancing was very special...... as every gent, lady and kid shaked their legs and bodies to the extent they could...

Fun n fun..all the way from 10 to 7 PM.....
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Thanks to Padma Rao for being the "Villa Finder" once again.
           Thanks to Sanjay as well who had arranged one villa.... but it was smaller..

Salute to the "Spirits-de-Extra" ...
            Murali+Jaya and Tarun+Vasanthi coming over from other places just for this...
            Muralidhar making it as soon as he got a relief from earlier schedule..
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those made it:-
padmarao&geeta, sanjay&durga, venu&shobha, muralidhar&laxmi, gopi&vindhya, vatsa&anuradha, murali&jaya, venkat&chandana, gandhi uncle&aunty, srinivas&ramya, rangareddy&sudha, madan&anuradha, tarun&vasanthi

so near and yet sofar:-
Ravi, MVS  and Chintha families, Pavan were missed by us...I am sure they missed this more ......

prior rsvp'd:-
rajesh&vishwasree, mallik&shakuntala, balu&usha, bala&nandini, anand&tanuja, ramesh&kavitha, ram&neelima, toni&vijaya, biju&madhavi, samba&divya,  ravuri&sunitha, prabhakar&saroja, niranjan& mrs....
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Finally a take on the "group" and the "relationships" and "values" - these were built starting in nomadic-mobile less era and carefully, lovingly nurtured for over nearly 18 Years with lots of
......love, hates and ultimate acceptances of each other for what they are
......sacrifices, fights, quarrels n reconciliations
......adjustments, promises n compromises
......helping, sharing and caring
......time, money and feelings
--- all members and their families have given a good part of their life to make "group"...
--- let us carry it forever and ever with the same 'vibrancy', 'dedication' and 'love' to make it 'eternal bliss'

Am I back to form ???????

GOWRI SHANKAR
+91 9949 311 373
---- gnanam paramam balam ----

All Is Hell - a funny version of 3idiots song

Jab Project ho out of control, hoton ko apne khol
hoton ko apne khol, chilla chilla ke bol ............ ALL IS HELL.....

Client kya jaane project ka kya hoga,
waat lagegi ya poora hi scrap hoga.....

Koi na jaane iska future kya hoga,
to keyboard utha, delete daba, delete daba ke bol re...... bhaiyya ALL is hell.........

Permformance ki to lag gayee yaron , appraisal to phir bhi hua nahi
August mahina aa gaya yaron, increment letter fir bhi milaa nahi......

Project dooba to uske baap ka kya hoga
Aaj yahaan hain, kal na jane kahaan hoga

Jahhan bhi hoga, vahaan pe bhi locha hoga
to chair ghooma, PC utha, monitor ko phod ke bolo All is Hell........... all is hell.......

Confusion hi confusion hai, apprisal ka pata nahin,
kam complete karte hai yaron, lekin standard ka to pata nahi

Dil jo tera correction dekh ke ghabraye, dil pe rakh ke haath use to fusla de,
Ye chal jaayega bol ke khud ko samjha le,

To chair ghooma, PC utha, monitor ko phod ke bolo...
All is Hell........... all is hell........

Indian Preparation for FIFA 2010

వందేమాతరం (Vande Mataram) India's National Song

వందేమాతరం వందేమాతరం

సుజలాం సుఫలాం మలయజ-శీతలాం
సస్య-శ్యామలాం మాతరం

శుభ్ర-జ్యోథ్స్నా-పులకిత-యామినీం
ఫుల్ల-కుసుమిత-ద్రుమదళ-శోభినీం
సుహాసినీం సుమధుర-భాషిణీం
సుఖదాం వరదాం మాతరం

షష్ఠీకోటి-కణ్ఠ-కల-కల-నినాద-కరాలే
ద్విషష్ఠికోటి-భుజై
ధ్రుత-ఖరకరవాలే
అబలా కైనో మా ఐతో బోలే
బహుబల-ధరిణీం నమామి
తారిణీం
రిపుదల-వారిణీం మాతరం

తుమి విద్యా తుమి ధర్మ్
తుమి హ్రుది తుమి మర్మ్
త్వం _హి_ ప్రాణాహ్ శరీరే

బాహుతే తుమి మా శక్తి
హ్రుదయే తుమి మా భక్తి
తోమారయి ప్రతిమా జడి మందిరే

త్వం _హి_ దుర్గా
దశప్రహరణ-ధరిణీం
కమలా కమల-దళ-విహారిణీం
వాణీ విద్యాదాయినీ నమామి
త్వాం
నమామి కమలాం అమలాం అతులాం
సుజలాం సుఫలాం మాతరం
వందే మాతరం

శ్యామలాం సరళాం సుస్మితాం
భూషితాం
ధరణీం భరణీం మాతరం

వందేమాతరం వందేమాతరం
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రచయిత : బంకిన్ చంద్ర ఛటోపాధ్యాయ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vande_Mataram
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In English Leters

Vande maataram
Sujalaam suphalaam malayaja shiitalaam
Sasyashyaamalaam maataram
Shubhrajyotsnaa pulakitayaaminiim
Pullakusumita drumadala shobhiniim
Suhaasiniim sumadhura bhaashhiniim
Sukhadaam varadaam maataram

Koti koti kantha kalakalaninaada karaale
Dwisapta koti bhujaidhrat kharakaravaale
Abalaa keno maa eto bale

Bahubaladhaariniim namaami taariniim
Ripudalavaariniim Maataram

Tumi vidyaa tumi dharma
Tumi hridi tumi marma
Tvam hi praanaah shariire
Baahute tumi maa shakti
Hridaye tumi maa bhakti
Tomaara i pratimaa gadi
Mandire mandire
Tvam hi Durgaa dashapraharanadhaarinii
Kamalaa kamaladala vihaarinii
Vaanii vidyaadaayinii namaami tvaam
Namaami kamalaam amalaam atulaam
Sujalaam suphalaam
Maataram
Vande Mataram

Shyaamalaam saralaam susmitaam bhuushhitaam
Dharaniim bharaniim Maataram
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Author: Bankim Chandra Chatopadhyay
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Rare Coconut Tree

A cool one. A rare mutli branched coconut tree. Courtesy Venkatram Reddy.

Writing in Telugu (తెలుగులో రాయడము)

Friends,

Today was a great day. A rejunuvating one at that. I finally did get the simpler ways of writing in my mother tongue "Telugu (India)".
So non telugu people please excuse me and skip this post.

తెలుగు, తెలుగు, తెలుగు - తియ్యని నా మాత్రు భాష. చాల రోజుల తరువాత తెలుగులో సులభంగా నెట్ లో రాయడం తెలుసుకొని చాలా సంతోష పడ్డాను.
తెలుగులో రాయడానికి విధానము:

1. Select a telugu editor(tranliterator) like
http://www.iit.edu/~laksvij/language/telugu.html or
lekhini - http://veeven.org/lekhini/ etc.

2. In the left box type in telugu using english letter for e.g
thelugu - తెలుగు, rOjula - రోజుల etc
Believe me it is quite simple

3. Check your IE is set to View-encoding-Unicode. I am using Windows Xp.

For other detailed settings see the posting.
http://oremuna.com/patrika/mediawiki/index.php?title=Telugublogging

కొన్ని తెలుగు బ్లాగులు:

http://chaduvari.blogspot.com/
http://oremuna.com/blog/
http://dinacharya.blogspot.com/
http://groups.google.com/group/telugublog
http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%80
ఎన్నాళకు నిద్రలేచింది - microsoft - అంతామన మంచికే అనుకుందమా !
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0db2e8f9-79c4-4625-a07a-0cc1b341be7c&displaylang=te

ఇది మొదటి మెట్టు. ఇంకా చాలా సాదించాలి !
అందరూ తెలుగులో రాయడం మొదలు పెట్టండి.

Sandart

Amazing what Sand and Hands can do !
(You may need high speed connections)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XiUQ35_wNo&search=sand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQOSwy5bSkw&search=sand
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