Seasons Greetings !

"आश्विन शुद्ध प्रतिपदा" First day of Navaratri pooja. Celebrating the festival for 9 days and nights all over India and the Tenth day is दशहरा which is a grand celebration.

सभी को दस्सरा की शुभ कामनाएं !!

पद्माकर और ज्योती

Anand Sweets from Bangalore - This is the place we used to buy our sweets for the festival. Taste of the sweet still lingers on my tongue. Simply awesome!. Technology and Internet made it simple. folks! website of Anand sweets from Bangalore. Here you go!!!

http://www.anandsweets.in/index.aspx

At home in Perth we will be celebrating the festival by performing pooja. Jyoti will prepare sweet for the auspicious occasion and will be calling to all near and dear one to exchange greetings.

Spring has already arrived. Days are slowly becoming longer and nights are shorter. There's a change in temperature from last week. Summer is arriving soon and we have to re adjust ourselves to it.

good day

Padmakar(Paddy)

Pooja at Home in Perth dated 22nd August 2009

ciao again

Padmakar(Paddy)

On 22nd August 2009, we performed Satyanarayana Pooja at our home in Perth. Myself and Jyoti were planning for this pooja since long time. and we were happy that finally we could perform the pooja. Some of our friends joined this pooja at our home.

We also planned to have potted garden in our back yard and started working on it. Getting pots, potting mix, shubs and plants of our choice were on the agenda. Bunnings in Cannigton was the the choice to get all this stuff. Visit http://www.bunnings.com.au/ for more details. Plan kicked off and we have , jasmine, royal palm tree planted in medium sized pots, marigold flower, mint , Asian green chilly were planted in standard size pots.

Work on Hamari Library is moving at slower pace. We could manage to raise the Rs 31000/- for Kartavya library funding. Still long way to go. if you are keen on helping for this noble cause please do drop an e-mail on hamari.library@gmail.com

Also visit http://www.kartavya.org/Library.asp and http://www.kartavya.org/index.asp

One can experience a great spirit of Mumbai during the 10 days of festival as everyone in the city worships lord Ganesh with great spirit. Myself and Jyoti always keep remembering as how we use to enjoy during this festival when we were young kids and also even after we moved to Bangalore never missed to visit Mumbai during the festival.

ciao again,

Padmakar(Paddy)

१५ अगस्त २००९

स्वतंत्रता दिन के

अवसर पर सभी को शुभ कामनाएं

पद्माकर और ज्योती

It was raining in Perth for the entire last week. Intermittent heavy showers and cloudy weather brought the overall temperature further down over the entire week.

Neelu Phule - Famous Marathi stage as well as cinema artist passed away. I have seen his Marathi films in the past. He was truly fantastic and talented artist. He had played various characters on stage as well as in films. He was the best in negative character roles.

England won the Lords Cricket Test. Andrew Flintoff was superb however I liked Michael Clarke's batting. It was superb and awesome but could not save the test.

At last! we could transfer funds to Kartavya for their HL(Hamari Library) project. Thanks to Vivek Saxena for providing timely help in transferring money to kartavya. Those who need to know more about kartavya please do visit the following website as well as you tube link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nKAT_WE7dY

http://www.kartavya.org/Library.asp

good day,

Padmakar(Paddy)

Michael Jackson created a history in the world of pop music.I do listen pop music but not to that great extent. Michale Jackson's magic on every single person who keeps interest in music was terrific. I still remember during 90's how young guys and girls in India used to go bonkers on his music and albums. My favourite is "Liberian girl: from his "Bad" Album. He was truly genius and awesome.

That's the youtube link for Liberian girl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlIWtjjda9g

Work progress on our Hamari Library project is extremely slower than expected. This is really disturbing me. I am trying to keep up the momentum with other team members and hopefully we will pick up the pace on the same soon.

Ashes series in England is a treat for all cricket fans. Aussies are doing well in their first innings. Ricky Ponting's 150 was brilliant and nice to watch on it on high definition channel.

This weekend was once again busy with tons of work at home. My car has gone without cleaning for more than a month now. I need to clean it up on high priority basis. Planned for tomorrow.

ciao

Padmakar(Paddy)

Back to desk again for a new post. Mumbai Sea link bridge was inaugurated last week. Nice to see the picture of this bridge on net. looking forward to drive on this bridge sometime, some day.

Refer YouTube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVJGxnfrWno which gives a very good information about this bridge.

Its unfortunate and as expected people are fighting over an issue of naming this bridge. I am just wondering, do we really need to name such land marks as it is already tittled as Bandra- Worli sea link. Does it not sound good? or at the most one can call as Mumbai Bridge.

A break of three months and our HD Ready Phillips TV is live again.Busy schedule and other priorities at home delayed installation of antenna on a roof for a quite long. Yes! Now its working. We can see all free to air channels which includes high definition channels too. Watching HD transmission is a great experience.

Myself and Jyoti liked bollywood movie "Jodha Akbar". We saw second time on DVD yesterday. Good to watch Hrithik Roshan's performance in the lead role of king Akbar.

Above picture was taken during our visit to sunshine coast -Queensland Australia

Good day and ciao,

Padmakar(Paddy)