Bye Bye Wyndwood!!!!

We never know why God has gathered all of us at a place like Wyndwood, a place I love to stay and say it as a 'home away from home'. The days spent here stays fresh and will be in our hearts as sweet moments. Wyndwood gave me an opportunity to celebrate passions of mine like teaching, coordinating gatherings, cooking etc. It gave friends for myself and for our kids.


I got a chance to learn many positive qualities from all of you. Let me tell you in short.

Padma  -- My very first friend here. I like her zeal in teaching Charitha telugu language. Though she doesnot know the language she tries her level best to learn and teach it to Charitha. Padma, I like the way you used to attend every prajna class without fail just to learn and teach.

Suneetha -- No more words, she is my sister. Lucky to have her as neighbor for one more time. Suneetha can observe her surrondings in span of seconds. Not every one will have that quick scanning ability :).

Anjali -- A friendly heart!!! Capable of making people around her to laugh in no time with her dialogues with added facial expressions. Be like this forever Anjali. You bring smiles/happiness to everyone.

Swapna -- Such a sweet voice she has!!!  I learnt many parenting tips from her. She is very good at managing things in order.

Sabitha -- This lady has courage to beat many odds and she can find happiness in every little thing she has. I love your positive energy Sabitha!!!

Devi -- She is an icon or synonym for patience and hardwork. I am sure I wont see anywhere who has more patience and who can work non-stop like her. Kudos to you Devi.

Padmaja -- I admire your voice and whenever you sing, I feel like I am listening to a recorded audio. you have such a consistent voice.

Kavitha  -- Her conversation starts with a heartful smile and ends with one.

Swapna Santosh  -- she is good at spontaneous dialogues. Swapna,you are a lady Trivikram!!! You must be super happy as I mentioned you as Swapna Santosh but not the usual way we call you.

Sneha -- An active and dynamic lady. I love her courage in dealing every single instance and no doubt Adhvik carried her genes and became a bouncy boy.

Madhavi -- She is my virtual friend. Actually we are friends before even I came to CT. she is talkative and very good at pouring suggestions/inputs thinking in our shoes.

Aswani -- I dont know much about you except as co-sis of Sneha. All I can say is enjoy your stay at wyndwood.

I also had  great time with other ex-wyndwood friends like Ram Padmaja, Kavitha, Hari Lakshmi, Neelima etc. Miss all our chit chats, jokes that doesnt knew boundaries. Miss sharing the dishes and never ending shopping displays. Miss all the kids there. I became so close to them since last year. My heartful wishes to each and every family there !!!  Now, tell me how many of you have scrolled down to read the text at your name first :). Thank you all for being good support in my pain and shine.

The Year 2009 for Andhra Pradesh

The year 2009 is good for us(tw) but when we think of our State Andhra Pradesh, the year 2009 was really a bad for it.

• In Early 2009 itself Andhraites are recovering from the shock regarding the loss of Satyam company, the only IT source for Andhra pradesh.
  

• In The Elections of 2009, Media made the people frustrated, News papers sounded just like the pamphlets of the parties they love finally leaving the people in a confusion what to believe and what not to!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, Jai Prakash Narayan is an exception his party/speeches does not come under this criteria
• Sudden death of Mr. Y.S. Raj Sekhar Reddy really made the Andhra people sad, we lost a leader.
  
• Floods in Andhra made the lives worse causing for the loss in wealth and health of the people.
• Flu flu flu....Not only Andhra, this word became the scariest part all around the world.
• The State became more instable with the serious issue Andhra-Telangana separatism, still it is continuing, affecting the life of a common Man with the name of Dharnas, Agitations, spoiling various resources etc.. I doubt even do God knows the end for this!!!!!!

with all these stuff finally 2009 ended, 2010 has arrived and 2 days back we got to know a news that YSR's death is not an accident, Its a planned one...no one knows for sure whether it is a rumour or fact, but attacks have already started on the assets of Reliance group of companies.

Finally, where are we going to??? we are not even thinking for the well being of our state, As long as we focus more on attacks rather than ways to develop, we will be the same forever watching others going ahead.

Recently I got this forward mail which made me laugh.
Awards for the year 2009
--Best Actor: KCR
--Best Romantic Actor: ND Tiwari
--Best Silent Side Actor: Chandrababu Naidu
--Best Sensational Action Hero: Lagadapati Rajagopal

--Best Comedian: Chiranjeevi
--Best Dubbing Artist: Chidambaram
--Best Character Actor: Manmohan Singh

--Best Story Writer: Sonia Gandhi
--Best Screenplay: Sonia Gandhi

--Best Direction: Sonia Gandhi

--Best Audience: Rosiah

let us hope this 2010 may bring prosperity, wealth and health for the people and let this year may make Andhra strong.

My Re-entry

I am back to my blog after long time. Hope my fellow friends in the bloggerville are doing great updating their spaces. I Wanna give my re entry by remembering one of my most Favourite singers, M.S. Subbu Lakshmi.

Though It was been 5 years since she left this world, her sweet voice stays in our minds and souls. The morning that started with her Chanting of 'Kousalya supraja Raama' is definitely a soothing one. Her statue being bulit at Tirupathi is apt.
Recently I fell in love with this song sung by her called as 'Madhurastakam' I keep on playing this whenever I feel to listen to pleasant tunes.

The Intellectual Indian brain

Hi my dear blog readers, I am backkkk.....chalo dont want to waste your time by describing the word Laziness in my dictionary.

Did u see this video of Aish n Abhi being on Oprah show last week, If not... enjoy it, I really really liked the spontaneous, intellectual answers of Abhi that depicted his fun shade too, on the other hand I didnt like the tone and also the artificial smiles or giggles whatever of Aish....

Busy beee!!!!!!!

It was almost been a month since I updated my blog, let me tell you, ( hammer pictured in your mind??? dont worry, this is gonna be short) with the fear of the winter ahead, we decided to not to waste these shiny summer weekends. Starting from July 4Th long weekend, we had busy busy weekends we visited Washington DC, Niagara falls, New York, and also covered zoo, parks, water falls that were located in and around our place.

In all I liked Niagara falls, from now I will try to be regular to my blog and hope you are all blogging regularly. You may all get a doubt what happened to this girl on week days ....I have a reason for this too, Now a days my Son is not taking naps during day times and he is getting mischievous day by day.....I could not dare to sit near my lappy when he is around as you already aware of my fear of losing a new keyboard:) next time If at all we are going to buy a lappy, I will force my hubby to take insurance for it.

My review on 'Sach ka samna' show

Money....Money...Money It rules your world, Dreaming ourselves in a big heap of money, will we be ready to do anything?? are we the one who are giving the top most priority to Money than to some sensible matters in our precious life?? These are the thoughts in my mind after watching a TV show Sach ke samna been telecasted on Star plus daily. This is the is the Indian version of the popular American reality show The Moment of Truth, which itself is adapted from the Colombian reality game show. Firstly I don't believe in this shows they are absolutely not out of reality, they are just a means to mint money.



Of course these type of programs may suit well to other cultures but obviously not to Indian culture. A TV program should entertain where the whole family could sit and enjoy it. Instead of entertaining, these shows may become the root cause for the origin of many negative shades in the younger generations. Because you are offered money, you are tend to expose your whole personal matters in the public, what a shame it is!!!!!! the applause from the audience at every 'true' answer from the participant really sounded disgusting for me.



I gone mad thinking at them how on Earth they could face their family members/ Spouse after this show. These shows may help you in becoming wealthier but you may lose some sensible and precious things in life that cannot be brought back with Money.

Moving Mysteryyyyyyy

Last Friday we moved in to our new apartment, I was bit busy with all this stuff and couldn't update my blog, exactly the day before, On last Thursday evening when Rithvik's dad tried to take him to Rest room to wash his mouth holding his right arm, my naughty pie escaped from his hands and immediately started crying and didn't move his hand even. we are not sure what to do then and ran for the emergency by 8:45 pm and there we waited for our turn, in the mean while Rithvik started playing as usual unless until none disturbed his hand. Finally by 11pm a doctor walked in( after the visits of other junior doctors) and said it was like bone dislocation at elbow and he set it right with his fingers bending the elbow , that's a 2 minute job. Thank God, In no time Rithvik moved his arm. We reached home by 1:30 am and from the very next day he was quite normal.

Here comes the real mystery, when ever we are ready for a move, we are tend to face some issues like this. When we moved from California to here, Rithvik swallowed a small piece of plastic disposable glass and then we didn't go for emergency but that whole night was terrible for both of us monitoring him for any of the complications(check here).

When I came to US for the first time, I was attacked with a malaria fever just before my travel and need to cancel my tickets, We cancelled my tickets for three times due to my health problems finally I could make it possible by 4th time, after Rithvik was born we three went for vacation to India I got leg sprain just day before to our return journey hmmm.... generally I don't believe this but some incidents are making me to feel tensed.

when we two analysed these situations, my husband said to me, ' you know some thing, when I was a bachelor, my move to every new home brought me some good news, but after marriage it was all upside down' waah waah ....finally he shooted me meee me!!!!!!!!

White House!!!

For the July 4Th long weekend, we went to DC. On our way we had a night stay at DH's cousin's place and by the next day we went my friend's place in Virginia and on July4Th we went to DC and up til now I had a great sketch of White House in my mind, but at a closer view, to my eyes it just looked like the other buildings. We just had some snaps with the back ground of it, we are not even allowed to go and stay close to it. After visiting Capitol hill and a museum, At night we were there at a Monument to see fireworks and it took almost 1 hr for us to get out of our Parking lot and we reached home late night and the very next day we started back to our Place.

The sad thing is I was never been to our Country's Capital New Delhi, I didn't see the Red fort and Parliament yet in real. Hope I could tour North India in my next vacation.

Talkative lil champ!!!!!!!

Hi my dear blogger friends, how are you doing?? now a days I became bit lazy, didn't even update my blog.
Look at this video, how talkative this lil girl is, Oh boy!!! this younger generation is too smart, at that age (of course even now :)) I don't know how to respond back to others spontaneously, I really got surprised to the way she is talking.



I guess you already know about our banging neighbour, She created a big mess again and our Apartment manager requested us to vacate our house......hmmm....so by next week we may move to a house in our next block with in the same apartment.

Hurray!!!!!! I got a new one

Yes yes yes ....I got a new key board for my Lappy.... Am I sounding mad, getting over excited for petty things??? No, If you would have worked with a keyboard like this one, even for a day, you would have known my joy. Imagine how you may feel in having the shoe of your exact size, after running for an hour wearing your lower numbered one.

The thought of this new keyboard striked in my DH's mind when he had a very tough time to understand my messages in Yahoo IM. That night he ordered for a new one and he himself got it fixed. My Son who is the reason for this whole story, when I am busy in the kitchen, he climbed on to the dinning table to reach the laptop and got surprised with the new look and his fingers soon got ready to pluck a key, My sixth sense suddenly said to me to 'look at him, look at him....' I peeped through the kitchen arch and shouted at him and I donno what his lil brain thought of me, he left that place giving a pity look at me that says 'chal mommy, ab tho ham ney chod dhiyaa!!!!!'

What's inside '100% NATURAL'

How many of us are keen in refferring to the nutrirition labels of the products we buy? well coming to me, I came to know about this concept of Carbs, trans fat etc when I was diagonised with Gestational diabetes during my pregnancy. I was suppossed to opt for the foods that have less carbs and more protein I started to look at the labels but now I rarely look at them.

Though we look at the labels, we may not aware of some hidden facts, May be its a business trick that says as '100% natural' to get their products into our hands or may be some other reason, but finally we will be victims. For example,

Take chicken. The average American eats about 90 pounds of it a year, more than twice as much as in the 1970s, part of the switch to lower-fat, lower-cholesterol meat proteins. But roughly one-third of the fresh chicken sold in the U.S. is "plumped" with water, salt and sometimes a seaweed extract called carrageenan that helps it retain the added water. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says chicken processed this way can still be labeled "all natural" or "100% natural" because those are all natural ingredients, even though they aren't naturally found in chicken.

Producers must mention the added ingredients on the package -- but the lettering can be small: just one-third the size of the largest letter in the product's name. If you're trying to watch your sodium to cut your risk of high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke, it pays to check the Nutrition Facts label. Untreated chicken has about 45 to 60 mgs of sodium per four-ounce serving. So-called enhanced or "plumped" chicken has between 200 and 400 mgs of sodium per serving, almost as much as a serving of fast-food french fries.

Wheat bread." This is a meaningless term, since almost all bread is made with wheat. Some manufacturers add to the illusion by using a brown wrapper or darkening bread with brown sugar or molasses. The more healthful stuff is whole wheat, which includes the outer bran and the wheat germ inside, good sources of nutrients and fiber. Check the ingredients. If the first one listed is "enriched wheat flour," you aren't getting much whole grain.

Super water. The Center for Science in the Public Interest sued Coca-Cola Co. earlier this year over claims on its VitaminWater beverages. The center argued that the drinks -- with names like "defense," "rescue," "energy" and "endurance" -- are mainly sugar water with 125 calories per bottle.

for more products look into this info source.

One more from my pen

Few days back I wrote this Lyrics depicting the concept 'Frustrated Lover'. If you didnt get the meaning of it tell me, I will translate it to english.

Naa Prayanam
gamyam teliyani payanam

Tholakari chinukulaa nanu thadimi jadivaana kuripinchaavu
Kalavani manasula kathanamai, thipi kala la migilaavu

Kanthi la nannu cheri pralayaagni vy chelaregaavu
Thadisina kannulua saakshi, nanu veedani gathamainaaavu

Premantey kalala rajyam kaadhu kalathala koluvani thelipaavu
chirunavey teliyani manishi gaa nanu marchaavu.

Meaning of the Lyrics

Naa Prayanam
gamyam teliyani payanam
Destination of my Journey is uncertain or not yet known
above line is used to say abt the uncertainity of a life journey

Tholakari chinukulaa nanu thadimi jadivaana kuripinchaavu
You being started as a drizzling (of happines) turned to be a heavy heavy rain


Kalavani manasula kathanamai, thipi kala la migilaavu
Remained as a story of the hearts that never meet, remained as a sweet dream

Kanthi la nannu cheri pralayaagni vy chelaregaavu
You being reached into my life as a ray of light turned out to a wild fire

Thadisina kannulua saakshi , nanu veedani gathamainaaavu
You will be forever as my Past leaving my eyes filled with tears as a proof

Premantey kalala rajyam kaadhu kalathala koluvani thelipaavu
Love is heap of troubles but not world of dreams (as i thought)

chirunavvey teliyani manishi gaa nanu marchaavu
You turned me like the one who doesn't know the smiles.

My Hit list

I have a very great passion for songs. I love music and every one feels relaxed when they listen to some good songs. I want to share few of my favourite Telugu ones, I am very keen at those lyrics.

The below song, I love to listen and watch it too. AR Rahman at his best, awesome song, close your eyes, listen to it....If you are married, you may go back to sweet memories.If you are not you may be dreaming of that..Am I right???



ahaaa what can I say about this song, Fell in love with Krishna Vamsi movies after this, beautiful picturisation that comes close to our heart and especially Mani Sharma's music, Jikki's voice are perfect to that song and Lyrics, they are ultimate



One more from the same maker, This one is favourite for many girls.



A hit from MM Keeravani from a hit movie. I like this song background music especially, I used to hum this always in my school days.



Funny start for this song but Lyrics and music are great and soothing.



Coming to a bit old piece, I like the lyrics of this song



These days I could not find songs with good lyrics, I feel bad when I concentrate on the lyrics. Where are such writings now? Bommarillu and Happy days songs are in my recent favourites list, Can you believe this??? or Am I the only one thinking like that, If you know any, lemme know some good ones that were released later.

Back to my blog after a celebration

No, You did not hop to a cooking blog. You are right here on right space, Hope I am still at the corner of your minds, Man!!!!!! dig me back to the center. This was the longest gap I have taken since I started my blog, got busy with my Kid these days.

Coming to the cake, I made this Tres leches(3-milk cake) for my Son's 2nd Birthday. It was a famous Mexican dessert and every one including my Son liked it and thanks for my friend Chaitali for sharing this wonderful recipe.

His Dad bought a car for him as a Birthday present and













I prepared a card with all his favourite characters. He was very much excited as it says his fantasy.

On weekend, we celebrated Kids party at home. These are the cookies I made for the party where Kids as well elders got tempted. Only few left for my photo.

It was a nice feel when Kids achieve their milestones, he was so curious to cut his Birthday cake and been waiting from past one month. He enjoyed the whole day by saying ' appy, appy' clapping his hands and by showing the decoration to every one who visited to wish him.

What a Coincidence

This post is brought to you by the letter 'R' and by the number 14. My name starts with letter 'R' and DH's name too and so I wanted to name my Son that starts with the same letter. Our elders left that choice to us and I shortlisted some baby names of that kind and finally we both stuck to the name Rithvik.

Both my Mom and my Mom in law have the first letter as 'R' in their names and my elder co sister, Niece, Sister in law joins to the list. ' R' rocks in our family hehehe.....

Coming to the number story, we siblings share same Birthday date but on different months like mine is on March 14th and my Sister's is on September 14th and my younger Sister's(Uncle's daughter )is on January 14th and here comes my Son continuing the path being born on May 14th. A great coincidence, Isn't it!!!!!!

Idea courtesy of this post is Deepa, wife of my Husband's cousin. Lemme count how many R's will be on comments side.

My Bouncy boy

The night when we ran to the hospital for my delivery is still before my eyes, with in the 2 hrs I joined, my little bundle of joy joined us wondering all the doctors over there. A silent cry with his eyes slightly open and his cute lips will stay forever in my mind. Those tough times in my pregnancy soon turned to be sweet nothings with our first kiss and a hug.Women are blessed to be Mothers who could cherish some beautiful moments that defines the beauty of a life.

I must thank Varunavi for passing this beautiful tag, where I could reveal Mother in me. As this tag says to write five things I love about being a mother.

• Being pregnant, I loved the feel of his kicks and moves, Though painful sometimes, they are sweet sweet so sweeeet.


• I love to kiss him soon he slips to sleep. My Mom says a big NO to this but I could not resist myself.
  
• He kisses me while munching the food that are a great treat for his taste buds and then I simply stare at him to not to miss his joyful expression.


• He comes back to hug me though I shout or I am angry at him that's how they steal our hearts with their innocence filled love.


• His cute Lil steps(I should say lil runs, he rarely walks) and eyes search for me saying 'maama, maama' in my absence and cries if he could not see me for a while.

and there are many more, every moment with him is a gifted one and precious. I realised the value of a Mother being a Mother rather than being a daughter. His bubbly words, silly acts, messy arts, quirky habits.....makes our 'life' ride exciting on a happy rail(touch wood). He will be Two by this May. May God give him bright future.

I wish all the best to many of my friends who are to be Moms. You are gonna enjoy a lot. I want to pass this tag to my sister.

Amazing voice....must watch

Listen to this amazing voice, how wonderful it is, an outstanding performance by Susan Boyle in Britain's got talent 2009 show. Click here to watch the video.

Just observe the difference in the faces of audience and judges before and after her performance. At every click of my replay button, I felt it like new. By the expressions of the people over there we can realise how they got mesmerized with her voice.

No words are enough and I am no way eligible even to appreciate you Ms. Susan Boyle.You proved that the age and appearance are nothing before the gifted talent and hard work. All the best from my blog for your future endeavours.

Answer for my Riddle and Winners.......

If you are directly landing to here, I suggest you to give a try at my riddle and come back. For those who tried it, here you go.












Stmt 1: X (male)and Y (female) got married and had one daughter 'A' being the eldest and two Sons 'B' and 'C'.
No confusion in the above stmt, for X Y A, B,C are children.

Stmt 2: 'A' is married to X's sister's Son and had three children one Son G, and H,I as their daughters.
you can conclude that A's Son is G and A's daughters are H and I.

Stmt 3:Coming to B, he is married to Y's brother's daughter 'U' and had two daughters V and W.
B is X's son, B and U being a couple, (X is Father in law for U).
V and W are their children.

Stmt 4:Coming to C, he is married to A's daughter 'H'.
C is younger Son of X, and he is married to H, where H is daughter of A, where A is daughter of 'X, that means C married his sister's daughter.

Stmt 5:Coming to V, she is married to'G'and'W' is married to 'S'. from the above, discard W and S they are no way related to story.
now let us try to answer my for first question
How is ' H' related to 'U' other than a co sister.
H -- wife of C
U--wife of B
Since B,C are brothers, H,U became co sisters(refer 3,4 stmts)
to relate them other than co sister, (refer stmt 1)
A is sister in law for U because her husband B is brother to A.

(now refer stmt 2)
H is daughter of A. now if you join, H is U 's SIL's daugter in other way, for H, U is her mom's elder brother's wife(mama's wife).

How is 'V' related to 'H' (in two ways)?
V is daughter of B and U. H and U are co sisters so obviously H is dad's brother's wife (pinni) for V. this is one way (stmt 3).
( V is married to his dad's(B's) sister's(A's) Son.)

V being married to G, brother of H, V also becomes maradhalu for H.(stmt2).

Hope I cleared, If I confused you again, I have one more way just imagine 'X' as your Grandpa (dad's side) and Y as your Grand mother hence goes the family tree. If this is also a bad idea, please delete this riddle from your mind and excuse me but don't delete me from your mind :).

WINNERS: I declare Chandana as first winner. Her both answers are accurate. I guess she would have gone mad trying this. She is the first person to answer this. I asked this question to many in turn they warned me to not to come again with such. I appreciate her for giving such a wonderful trial.

Second winner is Mr.Vamsi, my close friend Devi's husband. I asked her this question instead her husband answered it who is totally not familiar with this kind of stuff. I am surprised to know answers from him. Last but not least, I thank for those who gave a try.

Are you ready for voting????

Indian Elections are on its way, no matter which News paper you read, they portray egos and personal grudges of our leaders dumping us in a big confusion between fakes n facts. Political system, being the Country's biggest drawback, how can it fight against top issues and gain prosperity. We simply cannot fault our Government, because its all ourselves who shape it by electing leaders.

I welcome a day where an individual vote is unbiased one dominating regional, caste priorities. Consider, Judge, verify before you vote for a leader. Your vote is worth for building peaceful India that may eradicate bugs like corruption, terrorism, resource crisis that dictated our lives since long.

The below video inspired me to come up with this post. Thanks to my Sister, for letting me know about this video.

A Riddle to my readers......

Caution: Please move away from distractions, otherwise you may shout at them while reading. Donot concentrate on this diagram.
Here is my Riddle
X (male)and Y (female) got married and had one daughter 'A' being the eldest and two Sons 'B' and 'C'.

• 'A' is married to X's sister's Son and had three children one Son G, and H,I as their daughters.
• Coming to B, he is married to Y's brother's daughter 'U' and had two daughters V and W.
• Coming to C, he is married to A's daughter 'H'.
• Coming to V, she is married to 'G' and 'W' is married to 'S'.

now answer my questions,

----How is ' H' related to 'U' other than a cosister. You didn't get how they become cosisters, then read again.
----How is 'V' related to 'H' (in two ways)?

Wait for this weekend for answer.