So long..farewell..

Ok one more year's gone...
and almost a month in the new year also had gone by...
was 2006 good? Yeah it was mostly

But there were some really bad, heart-wrenching stuff in 2006...things that should have never happened...
all over the world...all over the country...there was some much havoc...so much of terrorism...sometimes you wonder if we are really "progressing, advancing" and all that...
Maybe we were better off in those age old days...
One thing that I cant forget in this year or for the rest of my life is the day A.Sirisha passed away...simply unfair....

Things on the brighter side included Dhriti, Dhriti and Dhriti....her vocabulary almost doubled and tripled ....tends to be the attention-grabber @ home...I haven't been able to read any novel in the past few months and that shows how busy she keeps us @ home!!

And like everybody even I wish the new year is even more good and kind and happy
and above everything else peaceful

Happy Sankranthi

Celebrated sankranti...or rather Bhogi well @ home. My mom was very particular that I get Dhriti to put up a "bommala koluvu" for every Sankrathi. She used to do the same for me and she was quite good at it. I am not that good, but with the limitations that I have (like only chinese dolls and limited creative ideas) I think I did a good job :)

You don't believe? See for yourself..



And yeah...we did puja also...both Dhriti and myself..

And yes, I had to take the blame for having done the puja in jeans...but see they were very comfortable !!

See this now..
Shocked...that's okay...I didn't do it...all credit goes to Pavani :)

The actual program started in the evening. As usual we wanted to start at 6PM, we eventually started at around 7-7.30PM. Bhogi pallu program was a success, not much running around
That's Dhriti and Bubby-the mischief maker



After dress change, we went to Udaya's house:

Repeat tele-cast in Udaya's house :)

Happy New Year!!

We were at a resort in Melacca for New Year. Came back from Genting on 30th night and then drove to the resort on 31st afternoon. It was a good 2.5 hrs drive and the place was worth it.
Phani and family were already there and got us the rooms booked. So all we had to do was go, dump the luggage, eat some snacks (yeah we did that straight away!!)
And then headed to this "Animal Parade" in the "Cowboy Town".

The event started off with red-indian show and then fun part of animal show started.
Though the animals paraded were dogs, hens, oxen and stuff like that (the reason for not uploading more photos!!!), Dhriti had loads of fun.
Towards the end of the show, there was this "band" playing and people were invited to come and join the dance.
Dhriti promptly went off and started dancing. No, we didnt ask her to go, no prompting what-so-ever. She just heard the music and went off to dance. So, I had to literally "jump the railings" and catch up with her while she danced to glory!!

I never knew she was such an extrovert :)

Some snaps taken during the trip:

At the animal-parade...

Yes these are "REAL" and Dhriti actually scratched and pinched the lion.

Cake-cutting @ 12...welcoming the new year.

And no...nobody did this to her. She herself took the cream off the cake and rubbed it all over her face. Udaya just added that red color cream on her nose. She has been calling herself "green dragon" ever since :)

Horse-riding. She kept saying that the "horse was falling down", so we had to get her off the horse's back after 1 round only...

What did we do...?

We had one more looong weekend last week: usual weekend+ New Year+Bakrid
So...we went to Genting...a lovely highland with good indoor and outdoor theme parks.


Enjoying the cable car ride....

In the hotel room, don't worry I unplugged the phone so she is just playing with the phone...

The xmas decorations and Santa in Genting...

Enjoying the rides...she literally had a blast during this ride, everytime there was a sharp turn she would shout gleefully. She actually held the steering quite religiously as if she was actually driving the car!!

The usual-normal rides that she might get bored of soon. But this one had a monkey and an elephant together-deadly combination!!

On the way to outdoor theme park. She was trying to smile here!!