Mothers - You make this world a better place

A Small Video !! To Wish my Mum "A Very Happy Mother's Day"
and also all the Mums....
Enjoy Your Day !!

Holidays..Recession...Layoffs...Satyam....Obama

Its been a while since i wrote in my blog....well I donot write at all.....let me try....

2008 has gone...what i found in 2008..well facebook and because of that few old friends...

Had our holidays to India and for the first time in my life i visited along with my finnish friends as a tourist...we went to Bengaluru...Mysore...Hyderabad and Bidar and it was kind of interesting to see these places...which i used to usually drive by in my Scooter...

A few thoughts..

Bengaluru is getting dusty year after year..thanks to Metro project...please someone please finish it yaar...but the spirit of Bengaluru still remains visit the Brigades..MG's and the commercials...

Mysore has always been my favourite place and even though the road to Brindavan was hell it surely was worth the trip and thanks to my coolest friend Kevin we had a wonderful driving trip to this place once called retired persons paradise...i wonder what they call it now...

Loved Hyderabad cause it still has the old city look and feel around Charminar e.g but yeah its less dusty and the traffic even though heavy still is on the move...great places to see there and shopping at Charmas is still my favourite hyderabadi hobby...and you should never miss the biryani there....btw i was there when the NOT SO "Satyam" owners were about to be busted cause of the murky business with "Maytas" which my cabbie informed is the opposite of Satyam... so ulta-pulta haan !! I happen to see their new addition the Ramoji studios which is a big investment and worth a visit...but I still think that it needs efforts to make it an international attraction....Ramo ji are you listening ;-)

On to...Bidar a relatively unknown place thanks to its new collector at office has a lot of places to see and the India I grew up in still intact...the old town has my school and went to see the school which has now a new building and old classrooms are now used as houses....

Spent time with my parents ...had a wonder Christmas with the relatives and friends..New Years with our dear friends in Bengaluru....went visiting our relatives and friends and shopping in Big Bazaar....and now back to the snow filled Helsinki with a lot of flu to fight with.... :-)

On the other side was not totally moved by Obama's inaugural speech....but I hope he will make the dreams of millions come true.. that is peace among people..jobs in plenty...the sound of the word recession is almost like depression and it is affecting our daily thoughts and how we go about doing our work..we need to cheer up folks put in our best effort at work and at home....

And wishing you all a very good 2009 and soon it will be 2010...

Peace Love and Harmony..This Christmas and ever after

Folks !! Wishing you and those close to you and all around you !!

Joy

And A Very

Let us.......

In Memory of those who lost their lives....

For the rest of us....

We shall overcome We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day
Oh, deep in my heart I do believe
We shall overcome some day
We’ll walk hand in hand We’ll walk hand in hand
We’ll walk hand in hand some day
We shall all be free We shall all be free
We shall all be free some day
We are not afraid We are not afraid
We are not afraid some day
We are not alone We are not alone
We are not alone some day
The whole wide world around
The whole wide world around

होंगे कामयाब होंगे कामयाब हम होंगे कामयाब एक दिन
हो हो हो मन मे है विश्वास
पुरा है विश्वास हम होंगे कामयाब एक दिन॥धृ॥
होगी शान्ती चारो ओर होगी शान्ती चारो ओर
होगी शान्ती चारो ओर एक दिन
हो हो हो मन में है विश्वास
पूरा है विश्वास होगी शांती चारो ओर एक दिन ॥१॥
हम चलेंगे साथ साथ डाले हाथोमें हाथ
हम चलेंगे साथ साथ एक दिन
हो हो हो मन में है विश्वास
पूरा है विश्वास हम चलेंगे साथ साथ एक दिन॥२॥
नही डर किसी का आज नहि भय किसी का आज
नहि डर किसी का आज के दिन
हो हो हो मन में है विश्वास
पूरा है विश्वास नही डर किसी का आज एक दिन ॥३॥

Close Encounter of Karnataka kind!!!

My Cousin sister with the Chief Minister of Karnataka Sri B S Yediyurappa..making us all proud..way to go cuz....!!

Happy Deepavali Folks

Its the festival of lights and I wish everyone a Very Happy Deepavali !!
We miss home a lot during this time because of the mitaies our padosi gave !! And the patakas we used to burst..laksmi bomb under a tin with a timer was our favourite !! Once I burnt my hand burning a laksmi bomb with a very small bathee...so kids take care remain safe...Now we try to keep the same thing going here in finland and had a small kidsclub party last weekend with about 18 lovely kids who played some games...prayed together..listen to the stories...ate some mitai together and had lot of fun..thank you all for making this a wonderful event for the little ones...here are few moments from the event...

1947 A Cricket Story

This is a story of a handful of Indians who had moved to Finland in the early 40's to work in the very first mobile industry in the cold scandic region..the winters were tough -30 C sometimes..but they worked hard and when the summer came they hit this wonderful idea to start playing Cricket in the summer of 1947 in a small ground in a village called karakallio..they were called the Kara Killers and they were the champions of the tournament that year defeating the hugely popular team of Helsinki Konala Kings..it was a moment to cherish but unlike these days there were no digital cameras but an old and rusty fire flash camera and they had to spend 10 Marka equal to about 50 Euros now-a-days, to get this picture done and unfortunately the huge winter storm of the 60s washed away most of the records and trophies .This picture which we accidently found in one of the storeroom in the Karkelo bar the frequented bar in those times and the tradition continues as we represent the kara killers in the year 2008...in search of more..adios