What a Diwali…

Belated Diwali wishes to all my Indian friends and for my non – Indian friends, here is what is all about….http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali

Now to all about my Diwali,this year… I should confess that this has been the best diwali or to be more precise a satisfying diwali, I have had in the recent years

Though its fun being in India for Diwali,it always comes as a package the good n the bad…

Eash flew in from Bkk jus for two days.. I think this lifted up mine and Yuvan’s spirits… Me n Yuv went shopping ,the previous week to buy new clothes for Eash,Yuv and Me… I had a top that i liked soo much from Pepper Plus.. And I Bought sweets the same week.. I long back stopped making it at home,as none of  us have a sweet tooth…worse..Eash n Yuv can jus eat one for the sake of me making it….

Eash gave me a scare on FRiday evening on the eve of diwali…,when we were getting ready to go to airport that he is in the middle of the one of the worst traffic jams that keeps happening in BKK ,that he may miss the flight.thanks to his fren Ray,the motorbike Taxi, n then the normal taxi,he reached airport jus in time before the gate closed… but… after he boarded the flight,the flight was delayed by 1 hr.. n he reached Singapore by 12.30 instead of 11.30 and diwali dawned for us in the waiting lounge … But it was great that he finally made it to Singapore

Yuvan was so thrilled to have eash back n his funky alien remote controlled car/Vehicle (???? ) … We woke up pretty late on the diwali morning (expected as we came from airport n slept by 3 am – which is the time normally people wake up in India to burst crackers on the Diwali day )..

Yuvan had a great start,right after brushing his teeth,he had the sweet .. I was shocked.he cna’t even eat cake… but he ate a sweet… The after the shower ,we had prayers at home, then crackers time… n for a change we 3 had a good breakfast… Lunch was much more a family affair..3 of us…. and I passed lunch n sweets to dear fren B..

Then for a change, instead of me having guests around as always, we  were invited for dinner at our closest frens place…. we had a very good time…n v left early ,so that me n Eash can take a night out.. any guesses on yuvan… yeah he happily agreed to sleep over n his fren Sam’s place,,, thanks a ton BHony…

Me n Eash had a great time.. its only we two… had fun… really enjoyed every moment of it we needed this

And that was my diwali…

And not to forget the wishes that came our way  :)

One of my most satisfying Diwali’s ever

Here are a few pics

So much in my mind

There are a lot of things going on.. and I had a day at Yuvan’s school ,with lot of confrontations… but the management listened to the parent’s view.. so looking forward to see some results…

My Nokia under warranty konked off again after coming back from a LCD change two weeks back… I have set my mind.. My next mobile will not be Nokia.. al through these years I haven’t used another Brand …. hmmm have to go to Nokia again.. Hmmmm…

So much in my mind that i feel like i need a sleep therapy… so must go to bed soon today… also as Yuvan has to go for his concert practice at school at 8.45 am…Hmmm

I wanna write a lot… But I want my posts to be positive.. so this is enough for the day.. happy that i spilled it here…

back … for goodd..

Now I have come to conclusion that I should be Back to blogging atleast to keep myself occupied..myself free and to be myself….

Yuvan does a lot of  Talks that are shocking me… surprising me.. and sometimes astonishes me.. So m gonna start a new tag called “Yuv’s talk ” which would be easy to archive…

Yuvan’s Children’s day Celebrations at school Was initially themed Beary party  But later was told though the theme is teddy bear…can wear any favourite cartoon Tee..Yuvan wore a new Mickey Tee which eh loved:)

here are a few pics

At Home all ready

Another pose:)

The teddy he carried … The one which Eash bought for me when he went to France:)

Pose on the way

Yuvan and Sam In the Bus

The balloons from the party…

Yuvan and Sam With Bhony ( Sam’s Brother)

The gift he got from his school and the teddy he carried for the party

Oh yeah….

M back after two weeks… Looks like my breaks from blogging are happening more often… But Shouldn’t I be happy that atleast m back at it again…. ???

The last two weeks had been a event filled week…

First On Yuvan -

His Teacher Ms.Reana quit ..and she had been the one Big example of a teacher and a Pre-school teacher any kid should get…

Yuvan has showed tremendous improvement and I could see so many changes positively in him – academic and personal too…

Thanks Ms. Reana  And here is her with Yuvan and the pic of the cute little thing she sent along with Oreo on her last day @ school…

Yuvan came an told me ” Ms. Reana say that she has to go and they will get a nice teacher and be a clever boy ” .. hmmm Wah my son has grwon up

And so Yuvan has been promoted to K1 ahead by a term… Cos his teacher felt he is ready to go to K1 and i felt ,rather he go ahead rather accustom to tow new teachers in the span of 3 months…

He is in K1 from today itself..

He is excited and I did hand him over to his new teacher and he went to his K1 class straight away by himself….

He has started to read more 4 – 5 letter words…He has understood the concept of blending through phonetics… and he can remember and spell the words he can read…hmm.. he is showing lots of improvement… and shows great signs of improvement on grwoing up as an individual… Slef shower… self dressing -partially… already he has been quite independent..but now completing the circle probably…

On personal front.. I had been through an emotional rollercoaster which i dont wanna discuss… But m up n back…at  everything more  +++++

This emotional roller-coaster shock has been a blessing in disguise… time to wake up… to more positive things… time to step into other’s shoes ….But i expect the same from the other side tooo….. Looks more promising now… hoping for better n the best…

I want the strong sharp dent to go away with more positive things to heal the wound….

I have lots of stuff pending to write in… esp the more important Yuvan’s PTM which happened in May… a record of sorts…

Open to me, so that I may open. 
Provide me your inspiration
So that I might see mine.

First Sri Krishna Jeyanthi

We celebrated first Sri Krishna Jayanthi at home.. though in our family we don’t follow this… I did it today and intend to follow it every year…

For the past two days , who knew me n whom i really i don’t know  kept saying me… ” U should do the pooja….   cos who has young son’s should do “

then  I felt that I shd do.. And i did .. followed my intution n feeling n relaxed and happy… Sometimes i do feel things happen around us for a reason… and this i really can’t brush aside…

And here m so happy  n relaxed… after the pooja

For my non-Indian followers here is what Krishna Jayanthi means…

Janmashtami also known as Gokulashtami / Krishna Jayanthi  marks the celebration of the birth of Lord Sri Krishna. Sri Krishna was born in the ‘Rohini’ nakshatram (star) to King Vasudeva and Devaki Devi on the eighth day of the dark fortnight in the month of Sravana. This festival is also known as Sri Krishna Jayanti and Krishnashtmi. The actual day of celebration can be on two different days as the star ‘Rohini’ and Ashtami may not be on the same day. These days correspond to the August and September months on the Gregorian calendar.

Sri Krishna is considered as the eighth avatar (incarnation) of Lord Vishnu’s, (one of three major Hindu Gods) on earth. He is considered to be the Lord’s most glorious incarnations. It is said that his remembrance true heart brings extreme joy and pleasure because Sri Krishna himself was a manifestation of joy at all levels and in all walks of life. No other God in the Hindu pantheon, or for that matter in any other religion, is associated with so many romantic tales and so fully radiating with all the divine attributes as Sri Krishna.

Since Sri Krishna lived in luxury throughout his life, Sri Krishna Jayanti is celebrated with pomp and splendor. Plenty of sweets are made on this day. Among these are laddus (yellu oonde), chakli, cheedai, payasam (kheer), and so on. In addition, plenty of milk products especially butter, which was Sri Krishna’s favorite childhood food, is given in offerings. A wide variety of fruits are also offered. The most common sweets made laddus and payasam.

I did make the pooja chanting the mantra  ” Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya ” ,Thanks To my friend S for the advice and details.

Yuvan enjoyed the pooja and enjoyed the evening:) I made Vada,payasam and did the pooja… And passed the snack to sam also

here are the few pics i took today…..

Yuvan doing the Krishna Padam

Dressed for the pooja – new kurta

Pooja

After the pooja
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out of the shell

Woo hoo… Finally here m..after a pretty long break..which was quite unplanned….

First coz’ Eash had to flew in early cos of his Acute bacterial Gastro infection for which he was hospitalised in BKK.. a few other things that happened later ,which has served as an eyeopener for good sake….

Been busy with Yuvann….he really is showing signs of real growin up.. academic,independency in 90% of his activities..which equally shocks and surprises me.. in a  way m getting to terms with his growing up………..

He has joined in an art class..Called Global art international which he really loves doing it… i took for a trail class..n i let him talk to Eash abt it and let him get permission from Eash by himself..before he got enrolled.. its a weekly once class….

here’s what he did in his first class…. I liked Global Art..cos they do it methodically.. a system in place for the curriculum and the progress is also so…

So … things are good with him… And I have one more important thing regarding him to update which i will update once its confirmed…

Otherwise.. there are a few stuffs i learned in a short a span of time…

Getting to know The real faces of people around me.. which i think is a blessing…cos in this world u hardly get to see wat’s in them…

On the positive side, I have a friend who really is concerned about me and cares for me… M happy about that friendship a lot……..

I have been in mixed moods over a period of time… but when i really think..that’s the nature of  a normal human being ..isn’t it?

The long weekend was Quite a good one,in the front that Yuvan’s fren SAM spent two days at my place… I enjoyed and engaged them… they tow behaved such good kids… adorable..

And Yuvan  Sings the Singapore pledge ” we the citizens of singapore… ‘ thanks to the project approach class regarding Singapore the last week…

Now its high time i need to educate him about our Country Mother India… A alarm clock for me….

Woohoo… got my passport renewed for another 10 years………. *clap clap *

So still have so many drafts which are to be recorded in terms of Yuvan’s first…… I hope i Can find time n mood to do it sooner… I wish….

Visual treats…

Yuv’s pic in the school billboard

(bottom left corner )

Yuvan spell n write 3 letter words – whichever he can read

Yuvan spell n write 3 letter words – whichever he can read – 2

A night with blocks – creative?

Morning word puzzle

Updates Updates…. Yuvan Yuvan….

Well..welll..well… m back to blogging ways….

First.. A good thing in a bad thing…

Yuvan ’s rashes had become little bad  day before yesterday night with even a little blood spotting and I was worried about it  getting  aggravated,cos Yuvan has a similar infection which was very bad when he was one year ,after which he was diagnosed that he has a keyhole and he may require circumcision ,but asked to wait for any physiological changes until atleast he turns 5  and an effort at home to pull his skin back while bathing…. so My mind was full of these things…. whether should he require it ?if so when?how long he would need rest? oooooooo My mind was spinning….

So yesterday I took him to his doc after an appointment.. he checked him n said..”this time it’s quite red… will give u an antibiotic solution to wash and the same steroid ointment ” and then he was talking abt my other doubts… before that I should say that this doc of Yuvan is too good and I  have never changed his Doctor since he was born and came to Singapore…He is too Good……………. I should say… never I say his diagnosis and medication has gone wrong…

Then I asked him ‘ doc u did suggest for circumcision earlier… so is it required ?”

To my shock he told me ‘ circumcision is not required , he is better now… and keep doing the pulling n cleaning he will be better ” it was a blessing in Disguise for me! I was so happyyyyyyyyyy… I must admit….

So now Yuvan has started to spell n read three letter words… I was little reluctant to start with his spellings.. but he showed lot of interest. Cos I was worried whether he would confuse with phonics and spell the alphabets – name of the letter for the spelling…. But his teacher encouraged me to go ahead… and he is doing it perfectly well.. he does say ” when i need to spell i should say the NAME..” wah… Yuvan m Proud of u MY BOY!!!

And today he has even started to write spellings of the three letter words he knows as I give him a dictation test – say the word and ask him to spell and write by himself. Wah Wah.. *clap clap *

And to my surprise , today he  entered the password by himself in the laptop,by the time I went to washroom and came back.. he had already logged in …. superman?????? he remembered his spelling for his name and also that  is the password …. So happy I am… And me and he has the habit of doing Hi-Five whenever he spells a word correctly or whatever he does properly!! It encourages him as well I feel happy everytime we both do the Hi-Five!

Eash will be back for abt 10 days in Singapore next Friday… M happy and looking forward as I have a very good feeling that our love has rejuvenated for good reasons especially I feel m back our pre-marriage years… Love u soo much E !!!!! I love you…!!!!

So m back back….  Happy to be back blogging…..:)

More about Bangkok stories…  M pumped uppp now)

wat’s gotten into me?

I dunoo.. haven;t blogged for abt 10 days…. tats not so much of me. anyways i made up my mind from today I shd be back to everyday blogging….

I need to update a lot on Yuvan and offcourse his long pending PTM…………hmmm.. shd make it tomo….

Been quite occupied wiht Yuvan’s school n stuffs…

Understood few stuffs that made me really cross… abt  ppl who behave totally odd when it comes to something thats concerned abt them ,their money n theirs…. Hmmm…

Okie… Yuvan has a small rash over his private part,which is i know due to his key hole problem..but he is okay n fyne with the usual application of his ointment.. so we won’t w ait till he turns 5 for his circumcision,either in the next term break here in Singapore or next India trip..

But lot more to say on his developments

talking to mom almost everyday now..catching up all the one month lag in BKK…

so deal… will be back here wriitng  : )TOMORROW

Mind reads….

Hmmm… The swine flu is scaring me.. Yuvan won’t be going in to school until wednesday cos since i came back from Bangkok on Thursday..wd want to follow the rules of 7 days being home…. though Yuvan is normal.. n touch wood we haven’t got it over the flight journey…Good….

Basically m quite happy though I feel that he would miss two days of class… Its health n hygiene that has to be given importance first..off-course his n others….

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The daughter of my friend is recuperating well after her surgery..mostly looks like she wd go home in two days time….Thanks for all your prayers n do keep her in your prayers still….

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Being back in Singapore feels M home.. But m missing Eash a lot being there in Bkk for more than 3 weeks… But I liked Bangkok for its bubbling life jus as India…  :)My experiences in BKK set to come may be starting tonight… lemme see how much i can get back to Blogging…..LOL

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Had a very long nice catching up with Mom yesterday night… feels greattttttttt:)