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I found a few Agatha Christies, a few Wodehouses on first glance.

srikanth at omaha

srikanth landed at omaha 11am ist
details later

HBD KODALA!

JANMADINA SUBHAKANKSHALU

Haas Family Party

The Organizers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dhiren Bhatia, Secretary; Jasmin Young, President; Krupa Singampalli, Vice President; Amandeep Juneja, Treasurer - Haas Evening & Weekend Student Association Officers 2008

Aditya getting his face painted.


















Always ready for the stage!

Happy Birthday Poonam

Young Tom Riddle!

Check young Tome Riddle for the movie "Half Blood Prince"
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2008/7/29/first-look-young-tom-riddle-in-half-blood-prince

many happy returns seenu

Wedding Agenda

DATE
Dd.Mon.Yr TIME (approx) PLACE EVENT REMARKS
02.08.2008 02.00 CHENNAI ARRIVAL SSV,SLK,IA,IS
D0 03.00 DO DEPART FOR KAVALI SSV,SLK,IA
DO 07.00 DO DEPART FOR HYD IS
DO 07.30 KAVALI ARRIVAL SSV,SLK,IA
03.08.2008 04.00 KAVALI UPANAYANAM
04.08.2008
05.08.2008
06.08.2008 07.00 KAVALI PELLIKODUKUNU CHEYYADAM
06.08.2008 22.00 KAVALI DEPART FOR HYD MARRIAGE PARTY
07.08.2008 07.00 HYDERABAD ARRIVAL AND GOING TO
BHARGAVI’S HOUSE TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS BY GRK.
BF AND LUNCH
ARRANGEMENTS BY SASI.
07.08.2008 15.00 HYDERABAD DEPART FOR
KALYANA MANDAPAM Bus ARRANGEMENTS
BY BRIDE’S PARTY

07.08.2008 16.00 MARUTHI GARDENS
LAKDI KA PUL ARRIVAL AT KALYANA MANDAPAM. COFFE
TEA ETC.ARRANGEMENTS BY BRIDE’S
PARTY.
07.08.2008 18.00 VARAPOOJA
07.08.2008 19.00 EDURUKOLA
(THOTALO DIGADAM.)
08.08.2008 04.00 SNATHAKAM
KASIYATRA
MUHURTHAM
NAGAVALLI
SADASYAM
STHALIPAKAM ETC.
08.08.2008 15.00 OR 16.00
DEPENDS ON CHIRU DEPART FOR RLY STATION.
TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS BY BRIDE’S PARTY.
ALL OF US EXCEPT SSV, SLK, DSK.


09.08.2008 03.00 KAVALI ARRIVAL
09.08.2008. 06.00 HYD DEPART FOR KAVALI SSV, SUDHA,
SLK, SARADA,
SANDHYA, RAVI, SRIJAN.

09.08.2008 19.00 KAVALI GRUHA PRAVESAM SUDHA
10.08.08 19.00 KAVALI RECEPTION CUM BIRTHDAYS PARTY SSV SUDHA---
SSV,SLK, GOPAL

11.08.2008. EVARI INTLO VALLU.
AS DISNEY CHARACTER SAYS “THAT’S ALL FOLKS!” (PORKY PIG, RIGHT?)

Bon Voyage Srikanth

Give us a call after you land here.

Babai, when and if you get the time, can you publish the high level schedule for the wedding and reception (dates and times) on the blog? It will help in planning.

About Hancock

Recently, I have seen the movie "Hancock" starring Will Smith, the latest highest paid actor in hollywood.It's about a man with supernatural powers getting booed by people eventhough he tried to help them.People don't like him because the damage he causes is more compared to the lives he saves and good work put on by him.One day he saves the life of a man who inturn helps Hancock to gain people's admiration by planning out different things.The story gets twisted here when he finds a lady with supernatural powers who is supposed to be his partner lives like an ordinary woman.He gets to know his flash back from her which he had forgotten and knows that he can survive and continue to save the world from bad things only if the lady and him lived separately as is the nature's rule.Finally, the lady forgets her past in some sort of accident and lives with the man who helped Hancock in gaining people's hearts.This assures Hancock to live separately, save the world and feeling secured that she lives safely.As it goes without saying in any storyline Hancock fights with villians who try to deny him his magical powers and kills them.The graphics are quite stunning and the dts effect makes it thrilling.Overall, it's a movie to watch!!!!

WALL*E Review

Excellent animations, Apple/Pixar's signature glossy images, a decent story line and a WHOLE LOT OF PONTIFICATION.

It felt a little like they were "green washing". From what I read about the movie, Pixar had this idea for a while, but did not dare to put it out till now. Felt a little opportunistic, considering the message they were trying to propagate.

It was not particularly funny and a lot of the symbolism was lost on the kids. It was an adult movie packaged for kids.

I would take Nemo over this any day.

Most recent episode of "Lost"

Lost is a very popular TV series here in US, but yesterday, I had my own episode of lost.

Aditya and I went to the theater to watch the movie, WALL*E. He wanted to popcorn, which I bought. So my hands were full of popcorn, cookies and water. I took one step to pick up paper napkins and turned around, and he was gone.

After more than 5 minutes of frantic searching by me and theater people, I was near edge of panic and they were about to call the police and call an abduction alert, when he was found watching "Batman" in another theater.

In the 5 seconds my back was turned, he ran around the popcorn shop, went past the ticket collecting person( who did not see an unattended child run inside :-O ), went into the theater that was playing Batman, and was watching the movie.

I am thinking of buying a leash now!!!!!!!!

Mrudula in kavali

I,Mrudula,Manasa,Sumana had a very good time at kavali during her short 1 day visit!!!!!:):)
I still cannot imagine I am soon going to miss everything happened here.
Don't know whether to be sad or happy.

Life of Pi

Just finished reading the book by that name. The author is Yan Martel, a Canadian. The book is very good. It is about an Indian from Pondichery who is marooned on a lifeboat with a tiger in the Pacific. Apart from wiritng very entertaining prose, this foriegn author has a surprisingly good understanding of how a (South) Indian would think. Warning: like typical survivor stories, it does get a bit gruesome in parts. Try it sometime...

namma baagiluyalli globalization!

That means 'globalization at our doorstep' in Kannada. Today morning, we went to buy some fruits from the street vendor outside the house. The vendor quoted a steep price for highly polished apples (with tiny stickers...a web address printed on them). On querying him about their origins, he told me that they are from Washington. I asked him if I could have the local variety instead. He said that the local apples will not be in stock for a month. If I didn't like the US ones, I could have the Australian ones, apparently. In the global village, even street vendors sell imported fruits, it seems!

More photos.

HYDERABAD TRIP

The trip was good and the lunch was excellent.
Sudha and her sister(sandhya) sang well.
the travel by Quallis was horrid according to Gouri and the train was a
3 dimensional swing for me.
here are some photos.

Happy Birthday Lavanya

Hey Lavanya
Puttina Roju Shubakanksalu!
:)
Love
bhabhi!!

A preview to the live performance

I was able to finally get Aditya to sing the whole Bhaja Govindam in one sitting ( of course, including some antics. As nanna says "padarasam ali")

He promised me he will sing it in the pelli, but I will believe it when I see him sing.

In the mean time, here is the video.

My first year subjects

1.C and data structures
2.Basic Electrical Engineering(BEE)
3.Electronic Devices and Circuits(EDC)
4.English
5.Applied Physics
6.Mathematics-1
7.Mathematical methods
8.Engineering Drawing
Labs:
1.C and data structures
2.IT Workshop(software+hardware-final lo dip)
3.EDC/EE lab(dip)
4.English Language and Communication Skills Lab(ELCS)

MISSING LINKS

i miss sasanna completely
next vidyaakka and mrudula
may be they are busy.
hope to hear them more frequently.

going back to nlr

hi
sln,srn,sgk,svn,sgr,durgaatta
vijayaatta,padmaatta,kuppanna,sasanna
poonamakka,kuppakka,sinanna,vidyaakka,kantanna.
mrudula,lavi,summi,mani
will meet you again during dasara holidays.
bye now.

Big Banyan Tree

Sasi and Amma have come here for a visit and we went to the Big Banyan Tree here (very old and very big). We also stopped at a wayside lotus pond. Some snaps...

Happy Days!

I am not talking of the movie.
The enthusiasm of the young is unbelievable. Keep it coming.
Re; literary discussions, I am a bit busy(read lazy) and so shall get around to a list this week definitely.
I hear a few kids felt that this literary track is a bit of a tough nut to crack.
YES! and that is because you guys never had the habit of reading, so you don't know what you have been missing.
The whole idea was to kindle interest in literature as we feel that a person's personality is not rounded off well if they don't have literary inclinations.
So long! till next post with a list of books readable (or must be read?)

iam home for homesick holidays

hi everyone
i have adjusted in college very well.i have got many buddies.
two are from kavali.(akhila,renuka sameera)
two are from vinjamur(haritha,mounika)
one from gudur(vadlabolu)gayathri
akhila and renuka sameera are the residents of kavali behind sln mama's house.
iam going back to nlr on sunday night.

MY RESULTS ARE OUT !!!!

hi everybody!
happy to announce i got 68.8 % in first b.tech

Bill Gates Certified Professional!!!!!!!!!!

Please check out Bill Gates signature in this MCP certificate.I am also happy to say that I am permitted to drive a car and bike in 150 countries including USA.The reason is I got my IDP(International Driving Permit).

New visitors' point in Bangalore

Any Singampallis straying into Bangalore henceforth will have an additional point to visit as part of the city tour. Last weekend, Poonam and I had participated in a tree planting drive organized by an Eco group. The spot where the trees were being planted was Lal Bagh, which I thought was a bit like giving money to a rich man.

We had gone prepared to bend our backs and plant a good number of saplings, but it turned out that there were more volunteers than saplings. Big-wigs like Kris (current CEO of Infosys) were there to be part of the event, so I got to say hello to the man who runs my company at Lal Bagh- which was funny given that both of us have frequented the same campus every day for the last 3 years and not met so far.

At the end of the session, we did plant one sapling and marked the spot. Hope to see it as a full blown tree in a few years...and all visitors can enjoy this excellent park while we show them the tree of our labours!

Hi Poonam!

Don't you worry!
It has to work out.
Any way we can only do our best.
Remember what Lord Krishna said--KARMANYEVADHIKARASTHE MA PHALESHU KADACHANA"

Taata Korika, Manavadi Takshna Kartavyam

Aditya reciting Kaniyen Rukmini( bath time is one of the few times when I can get him to stay still long enough)

Project launch...

Had a project launch this weekend...and in one sentence I can say that my project is a very good example of Murphy's law. So many things went wrong ....not from our side though...only the roof didn't fall on us and I thank god for that. I need u all, .....babai.......boohoo....boohoo...
Finally the application went live!!! But still so scared...