Speciality of maargazhi maasam..

Hope everyone still remember all tamil months.maargazhi maasam starts at dec mid-14 or 15 and ends at jan 14 or 15.just before pongal.pongal is always on thai maasam 1 st day.Many people think that color kolam on house entrance has become fashion but that is not what it is actually!

       On maargazhi maasam there will be a special poojai called thiruppazhiezhutchi(meaning something like pazhi kondirukkum kadavul ezhundhrikrathu) they will do all abhishekam and deepa-aarathanai early in the morning.Timings varies from temple to temple but it will be definitely before 6.00AM.So all people used to get up very early in the morning take bath and go to temple.women in the house used to get up even earlier and clean the vaasal and mix cow dung in water and spread that and then put color kolam on this month only.This is what they follow in my place.

       The worst thing is the lowest temperature recorded in this month only.i dont know why they chose this month for this kind of early morning poojai and putting color kolam.But i think the concept is the godess will get attracted on seeing color kolam and enters into the house.

       In my house i used to enjoy putting all these color kolam that too new year(jan 1st)will come on this month.so i will get up very early and it will take nearly an hour to put a very big kolam and apply color for it.once u apply color all the outline will go off.so again its needed to give the outline.All together it takes a long time.To encourage this our local tv channel started organising a program for recording all the color kolam on house entrance and give prizes for the best three kolam in that locality. I had an opportunity to participate in that kolam competition and won third prize when i was doing my eleventh standard.When they organised it as a competition many people used to put kolam and decorate it with flowers and few scrapped some veg or fruits and add color on to it and spread that on the kolam.i tried on that crystal salt.Adding different color as required on the salt and dry it in sun the previous day itself and spread it on the kolam.I am very interested in all these kind of activities.but missing all that now.

         last time when i went home for christmas holidays my sister bought all that color kolam dried it in sun and kept in house ready for me.she is also very interested in this but since she is a small girl she cant draw a very big kolam and give color.so she wants someone to put in our house and she loves seeing that.It is been long since i put one.so i put the kolam which i learnt in my seventh standard and it is a very easy one and my favourite one too.so just i had a picture of it.thought of sharing it with u all.Peacock is drawn by my sister and the other one is by me.

Back to blogging after a long time

I started blogging when i did my last internship.now again back to blogging when doing my final semester internship.Again i got all the interest and motivation from seeing my seniors blogging.

There are lot of incidents that happened in the intermediate 1 year when i was @ college.

when we went to college after our 7th sem internship.it was very difficult for us to sit in classes,write internals and sem.it's always been difficult for us to come ontime to class as well.but somehow or the other we managed and enjoyed all the scoldings even.

Then we started planning for 15 days trip(most awaited trip).We had lots and lots of discussions abt the date,place and count for the trip.finally it all happened.(still seems to be unbelievable that we took nearly 10 working days off from college-record break).Last year this time we were all set for the trip(We booked for a travel agency from madurai,preperation of class t-shirt).I wish time could go back one year and again we can go for a wonderful trip. It was a very big project but went well organised.Space wont be enough to tell about the entire trip but i know that all of us are longing for yet another trip like this.we visited almost all places in north india(delhi-chandigarh-shimla-manali-amritsar-delhi-jaipur-agra).After coming back we shared all the photos and a DVD was made and given to all of us.The trip brought myriad moments of joy and will cherish those memories forever.

Then there was an alumini meet and after that there was a 1 day trip to silent valley in kerala.

we enjoyed lots and lot of interaction with our alumini.In the midst of all these we wrote some internals and sem exams.

Then the next semester started.all of us entered final year...finally!!! It's always the final years who will host this event LOGIN-inter college technical symposiyum.It's our turn now.All of us really had a tough time with preperations for various events.The event went really well and i cant forget the login dance this time(That was my first dance performance on stage).Then the login trip to ooty as well..but unfortunately i couldnt make out for that.(felt as though i misd a bumper)

This was the last semester for us in college so we enjoyed lots.played christfriend in class,went for class lunch to pizza hut,photo session(suthi suthi college la photo eduthom) and lot more.

Finally our subjuniors gave us a farewell @ deja-vu the same place as we gave farewell to our superseniors.We thought the farewell which we gave was the best but our juniors broke that.All of us were there for the farewell(all 38!!!)The gift which they gave to us was a very thoughtful one(A calendar with all our birthday).

Then it's time for semester exams(Final sem exam).we even enjoyed that time had lots of fun like class photo,dinner out and so on.

The most toughest thing was we need to leave the hostel where we had maximum fun and stayed together for more than 4 years.All of us are missing hostel now.

Now we have entered into a corporate life and all of us are taking responsibilities....

goodbye to all sincerity and studies.

goodbye to all ragging.

goodbye to all college fun(teasing and sleeping).

goodbye to all sem exams and maanga sessions during study hols.

goodbye to all trip and movies taking off from classes.

I am now feeling very proud and luckier to be a part of softies2k4(phoenix).Though it was a 5 years course.time just flew off.I have gained so many caring hearts.