The cat's out of the bag!

We got a cute kitty cat, Sushi at our home.


Priya's friend Catlyin had to shift apartments and loaned her cat to us for some time. We had an intersting episode where we visited an emergency Vet ward as it got sick in our house.

The cat simply got dehydrated, like a small baby, that she is! simply refused to drink water!!!

All she liked doing was much on her karvadam like Cat food and not drink thy water.

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Shatyabthapoorthy

My parents had their Shatyabthapoorthy conducted last week. Its similar to renewing ones marriage vows.
Here are some of the snaps from the event.




The homams were conducted in their usual flair, with 7 vadhyar's each upping the tempo! It was a memorable event (as seen from my brother's eyes). I am seriously impressed by their capacity to go on and on in the sweltering Chennai heat!




A much needed break for Dad and Mom from Chennai's Agninatshathiram. The sweltering heat makes people vaporize! After a nice piping hot homam :-), the groom and the bride get a nice Abishekam! At least that will cool them down a bit!







The final garlanding takes place where groom says, "Yes I do".
This I do is not for "Do you take this woman as your wife" but for "I shall continue to pay all your credit cards, bills, and renovate the kitchen"

And then mom says "Yes I do"
This I do is for "Yes, I shall continue making nice soodana pakodas, muruku, seedai, sambar vadai etc." (Slurrrup!")




And then all goes back to normal, everyone back to hating the chennai heat, enjoying a nice evening on T.N. Seshagopalan's cutchery and sipping nice hot kaapi!

Mani's Poonal

My nephew's upanayanam took place last week, here is a brief glimpse of what its all about!


More details to follow soon....

Budgeting!

I did what all men ask their wifey to do - "Budget Cuts!!!" On a fine Monday morning, off I am paying my credit card bills! I realize I am spending waaayyyyyy more than what I normally did....
Naturally, I shifted the blame game to my dearest wifey!
"Priya, we need to start running a tight ship", "we are leaking dollars everywhere"










"What happened hubby? Spending is normal, stinginess ain't!", says Priya. "Plus you are not single any more, expenses are expected to go up!"
"Last month we ran up quite a bill on expenses!" I exclaim, "We need to cut it down"

I could feel a chill creeping between us, I try to remember all the stuff that I read on "Men are from Mars,Women are from Venus" at that moment of time, my mind is a blank.

Have you ever had a dessert wine? Its sweet but really chilled.
The Ice Wine Speaks - "Off you go to the office, we will talk about this later today"

I do not think any more about it till I get a mail from my wifey....
It contains a nice little excel spreadsheet with breakdowns on what money was spent on and what not!
See if for yourselves...
I guess my dearest wifey saw all these numbers as barcodes!
She was scanning 'n ' churning them as the self service aisle at Walmart!

After I read the mail, I came to the following conclusion.


If your strong point is not finance, don't bring it up.
If your wife is an MBA in finance, never question her numbers.
Always accept the fact that its always your fault, your wife is always right.
You are mere participant in grander scheme of things, wifey is the Kapitän of the ship!




Now how do I tell her, It is ooookayyyy if the coffee table does not match the coffee cups....?

Red's Game!

Our project team went for a nice game of baseball...
Reds Vs Astros!





Game moved at a brisk pace with we getting an opportunity of seeing 4 homers!
The foul balls came flying by whenever the batter edged a swing! Cricket is way more livelier! But Baseball is short! Our 20-20 should do the trick!

This was the first time I actually saw cheerleaders in a Baseball game! Looks like this has become an all prevalant thingy!



The best thing I liked was after the 4th innings, we had a "stretch song", where everyone stands up to stretch their legs, and a song plays with lyrics in the giant screen! Everyone sings along! It was fun!
PS: Reds could have played better.