January 17, 2005
Pongal celebration at my place
It is been 2 days pongal has passed but at my place today is pongal for us....
Today Sunday jan 16 kanu pongal day in actual ,but for as it is all sort of pongal together in a day ..pongal+ maattu pongal + kanu pongal..
For this pongal celebration we planned 4 days before..nothing a grand sort of celebration but still for us too far from family we feel good when we meet our friends and have get together…..
“Plan la balama thaan pottoam “ ( we planned well for this get together..according to plan I shud be there at there place by 9 Am ….
It was morning time… started from home..travelled some one hour in subway now time to travel in bus..then got into bus…
Jus was sitting in the bus going towards the spot and watching out of window… enviornment was quite chil outside and also inside bus..guess it snowed last light…
To the distance where mine eye vision can reach…All I could find everywhere i.e in the ground,road,foot path all covered with snow…like a white bed cover is speard all over, good to see the view…
But I was wondering how cum no snow at my place and here full of snow…..after a few while thought to check the time..had a glance at my wrist watch..oh it is already 11.30Am now..still some 10 min travel left as was thinking this..suddenly I could find one of my friend getting into the bus..started with formal talk and then chatted till we reached the destination…
As I had only visited my friend’s home only once so could not remember the exact way to their home but could recollect that the way to their home is a straight path..we gave a ring to our friend n asked to come n pick up from bus stop but in the mean while want to give a try to find the way by myself..
Went to all streets what ever i can see but still could’nt find the home..atlast we came back to the spot from where we started that is bus stop..then we could find my friend there..
Reached home..
Started to do arrangment to prepare pongal( as dish can call as sweet rice)…
Our pongal was electric cooker pongal...Added all ingredients needed to prepare that dish n kept in cooker then we were busy chitchatting n simultaneously making ready to prepare the rest of dish..suddenly every one attention diverted to a side..the rice with water n milk was overflowing from electric cooker...
Usualy according to tradition while preparing pongal the rice shud over flow from mouth of pot after the rice starts boiling... and unfortunately it happened with our first pongal preparation ..great coincidence...he he..
As it was first time to prepare pongal ..we did some R n D ...started to prepare pongal , but atlast ended by preparing pongal and fried rice..
Actualy what happened was once we cooked the rice it was quite big amount..so we decided to take a part of the rice and prepare some other varity of it.... n that was fired rice...
It came some what so so..not exact to pongal but some what ok.. ..The main draw back was “ellakka ( tamil) “ was missing..other wise it would come excellent..this is what I was telling to all of them..tamil la sollavangala “nondi sakka “..( some blind reasons ).... ;)
Then all had pongal ..as all were bit hungry so they had bit more....but also it shud not be ignored that sweet dishes we cannot have more... ;)
After that it was break time..did “aaratai “ ( chit chat)..
We all believed that too many hands can spoil the things…so only some were involved in cooking rest were busy with chit chat n watching movie...
Then started to prepare second round of food…,..started with long menu list but ended with limited menu..
While making plan i told that we will prepare "susiyam" ( a sweet dish)...All were very eager to eat "susiyam" ..no body had heard of this name earlier n also no body tasted it.. they jus heard from me about that dish..anyway good for me.. how ever / what ever it comes i can say to them this is the dish what i was referring...;) for this also "ellakka" was missing.. that is very must for this.... getting ellakka here is very difficult have to travel 3 hours to get that ..so we decided to adjust with what we had..
We invited near by peoples “ABBUJI “( meaning father ) n “AMMANI” ( meaning mother ) for dinner.....Very good peoples n carring too.. as their son is pursuing education in some country so they are aware of the difficulties a person can face if they are in some alien country ..so they tried to help as much they can....
As we were busy preparing food and some were busy watching movie suddenly we could find ABBUJI n AMMANI at the home..ayyo enna edha it was jus 4Pm and nothing was done…we were thinking how to make them to move from there n ask them to come after 1 hours..
Atlast succeeded in the attempt…
Then back to experiment work.. sharp 6pm Boomi entered first..followed by Abbuji ,ammani and their daughter…
Concentration of all was diverted towards Boomi , to describe Boomi he is too smart,cute,too handsome ,charming ...
Boomi was the only one who was well dressed amoung all present at the venue...
wondering who is Boomi ? jus click here to have a glance at Boomi
Some liked the taste n had good dinner ,some did’nt like the taste…but ABBUJI n AMMANI like it n had much… I was happy for that...
they thanked me as they were not aware that in making dishes my role was less n others role was more compaired to me..but like the saying " free ya kedaicha pheneol kuda kudipom" ..just said thanks..as the appraisal was coming free of cost..cud'nt resist saying that i have nto made blah blah blah to them...
At last we found that not only too much hands but also few hands can also spoil the things which we discovered at the end…
I DID’NT LIKE ANYTHING THAT DAY…May be had too much expectation !
any how time to pack up n started back to home..next day again back to den ( work)…week started…
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Today Sunday jan 16 kanu pongal day in actual ,but for as it is all sort of pongal together in a day ..pongal+ maattu pongal + kanu pongal..
For this pongal celebration we planned 4 days before..nothing a grand sort of celebration but still for us too far from family we feel good when we meet our friends and have get together…..
“Plan la balama thaan pottoam “ ( we planned well for this get together..according to plan I shud be there at there place by 9 Am ….
It was morning time… started from home..travelled some one hour in subway now time to travel in bus..then got into bus…
Jus was sitting in the bus going towards the spot and watching out of window… enviornment was quite chil outside and also inside bus..guess it snowed last light…
To the distance where mine eye vision can reach…All I could find everywhere i.e in the ground,road,foot path all covered with snow…like a white bed cover is speard all over, good to see the view…
But I was wondering how cum no snow at my place and here full of snow…..after a few while thought to check the time..had a glance at my wrist watch..oh it is already 11.30Am now..still some 10 min travel left as was thinking this..suddenly I could find one of my friend getting into the bus..started with formal talk and then chatted till we reached the destination…
As I had only visited my friend’s home only once so could not remember the exact way to their home but could recollect that the way to their home is a straight path..we gave a ring to our friend n asked to come n pick up from bus stop but in the mean while want to give a try to find the way by myself..
Went to all streets what ever i can see but still could’nt find the home..atlast we came back to the spot from where we started that is bus stop..then we could find my friend there..
Reached home..
Started to do arrangment to prepare pongal( as dish can call as sweet rice)…
Our pongal was electric cooker pongal...Added all ingredients needed to prepare that dish n kept in cooker then we were busy chitchatting n simultaneously making ready to prepare the rest of dish..suddenly every one attention diverted to a side..the rice with water n milk was overflowing from electric cooker...
Usualy according to tradition while preparing pongal the rice shud over flow from mouth of pot after the rice starts boiling... and unfortunately it happened with our first pongal preparation ..great coincidence...he he..
As it was first time to prepare pongal ..we did some R n D ...started to prepare pongal , but atlast ended by preparing pongal and fried rice..
Actualy what happened was once we cooked the rice it was quite big amount..so we decided to take a part of the rice and prepare some other varity of it.... n that was fired rice...
It came some what so so..not exact to pongal but some what ok.. ..The main draw back was “ellakka ( tamil) “ was missing..other wise it would come excellent..this is what I was telling to all of them..tamil la sollavangala “nondi sakka “..( some blind reasons ).... ;)
Then all had pongal ..as all were bit hungry so they had bit more....but also it shud not be ignored that sweet dishes we cannot have more... ;)
After that it was break time..did “aaratai “ ( chit chat)..
We all believed that too many hands can spoil the things…so only some were involved in cooking rest were busy with chit chat n watching movie...
Then started to prepare second round of food…,..started with long menu list but ended with limited menu..
While making plan i told that we will prepare "susiyam" ( a sweet dish)...All were very eager to eat "susiyam" ..no body had heard of this name earlier n also no body tasted it.. they jus heard from me about that dish..anyway good for me.. how ever / what ever it comes i can say to them this is the dish what i was referring...;) for this also "ellakka" was missing.. that is very must for this.... getting ellakka here is very difficult have to travel 3 hours to get that ..so we decided to adjust with what we had..
We invited near by peoples “ABBUJI “( meaning father ) n “AMMANI” ( meaning mother ) for dinner.....Very good peoples n carring too.. as their son is pursuing education in some country so they are aware of the difficulties a person can face if they are in some alien country ..so they tried to help as much they can....
As we were busy preparing food and some were busy watching movie suddenly we could find ABBUJI n AMMANI at the home..ayyo enna edha it was jus 4Pm and nothing was done…we were thinking how to make them to move from there n ask them to come after 1 hours..
Atlast succeeded in the attempt…
Then back to experiment work.. sharp 6pm Boomi entered first..followed by Abbuji ,ammani and their daughter…
Concentration of all was diverted towards Boomi , to describe Boomi he is too smart,cute,too handsome ,charming ...
Boomi was the only one who was well dressed amoung all present at the venue...
wondering who is Boomi ? jus click here to have a glance at Boomi
Some liked the taste n had good dinner ,some did’nt like the taste…but ABBUJI n AMMANI like it n had much… I was happy for that...
they thanked me as they were not aware that in making dishes my role was less n others role was more compaired to me..but like the saying " free ya kedaicha pheneol kuda kudipom" ..just said thanks..as the appraisal was coming free of cost..cud'nt resist saying that i have nto made blah blah blah to them...
At last we found that not only too much hands but also few hands can also spoil the things which we discovered at the end…
I DID’NT LIKE ANYTHING THAT DAY…May be had too much expectation !
any how time to pack up n started back to home..next day again back to den ( work)…week started…
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