It's show time

Ah, finally bought a car this year :-) habba, evlo search and research work for this task. We booked the car (Honda Civic LX 2007 model) last month and got the car home last Saturday. It was a journey buying the car itself and other stuff like insurance, title transfer, taking driving lessons, bringing the car home, resident parking permit..ssss abbaaa kanna kattadha korai dhaan.

inimae car journey supera irukumnu nenaikaren. I am soooo excited :-) I love driving and especially on a cloudy/rainy day playing my fav songs - woooo :-)

Thanks to my friends and a very special thanks to Me for all his time and patience in replying to my queries. Thank you so much, Me!

J

Moru Moru Murukku :-)

Wanted to try some snacks since sometime. And, muruku, being one of my fav noruku theenis, caught my attention. Fortunately, I asked my mom to sent me the muruku achu too along with the not-so-important-but-feel-like-having stuff when one of our family friends came onsite with a little baggage ;-). doubt'aa vaanghi koduthaangha...engha naan panna porenu..Yipeee, I tried today (source--thanks, Mullai) and it came out awesome :-):-) its a very nice feeling that I cant express in words whenever I try some recipe and if it comes out as expected (nalla vidhamaa dhaan ;-))

anyway here is the sample of my Murukku :-)



epdi iruku? :->

J

Calling India ...

My international calling facility on my landline got deactivated couple of days back and the customer service guy said it would take another 3 - 5 days to re-activate it. I wanted to talk to my mom, so was chumma googling for "free calling India" ;-)

Found this and a bit excited to see the trial offer of 10 free min (to India)..wanted to give a try and see if it works....Yipeee :-) After asking your name, mail id, phone number details, he sent a confirmation mail with a pin...thats all..call their toll free number, and dial the destination...I talked to my mom for 10min :-):-) orae kushi :-)

Also, I found the calling rates in this site pretty cheaper than the other sites I went through....anyone using their calling cards already??? lemme know.

I was curious to know if there were other sites with the same free trial offer. Yes, I found this. Used and talked for another 10 min with my sis :p

I was greedy by then, searched for other sites, but they seemed to have a tie up with the earlier ones, so they displayed "Our database records say that you have already registered with us blah blah".. naan "okay right thanks"nu veliya vanthuten :D

Appa thaan therinjuthu, ethuku phone number detail kaetaanu :D though I have 2/3 email ids, I could call only from my landline phone by then :D

anyway, waiting for A's mobile to use another 20 min from both the free trial offers :p

J

Yesterday's koothu

I had been to NJ MVC yesterday to take up the driving license written test (and yeyyyy, I got the license too :-))..I just wanted to write the funny thing happened there.

After three rounds of documents checking and photo session, I paid the fees and was directed towards the driving testing area. A person out there asked me to show the documents again. Unfortunately, I couldnt understand his English accent. I had to ask him repeat the sentence again. Ok, I entered the room imagining that they are just gonna allot a computer to take the test and didnt expect anything else.

Here is the incident:

- He showed a small instrument next to me and asked me to stand there..I thought he was going to take a pic.

- I stood there, stared at the piece and looked at him again.

- He asked me to keep my forehead on top of it. I was confused for a moment and wondered whether he was going to take a forehead print like the finger print or something..how dumb I am!

- After a few seconds, he asked me to read the 2nd line...OMG, appo thaan I understood it was the "vision test" that I was undergoing....sigh!

- Only then, my subconsious mind was alerted and sent a signal to my eyes.

- I could see the 4 lines in my left eye only and immediately read the alphabets in line 2 and was waiting for his next order.

- He sarcastically said "there is something on your right too"...Ughh, I was like ahhhhhh...I zoomed (dho da :-)) my right eye if I can see something....but seriously, until I concentrated and blinked my eyes couple of times, I could see only a blurd yellow light.

- Then, I saw the letters clearly and I read those.

- Thought, I screwed up the test...indha ponnu vandi elaam otta mudiyaathunu ezhutha poraarnu nenachen :D but he sent me to the written test :-)

Totally, had a thrilled time yesterday...taking the test, waiting for the result, expecting them to accept my Indian license, getting the NJ license card the same day etc :-)

J

First Snoowwwwww :-)

Epdi irundha naan ...


















Ippadi aayiten!


















Today morning, I woke up and opened the window, OMG the green land, plants, road all covered with a white carpet!! Went downstairs, walked around the place, touched the snow, it was soooo soft..took in my hand, made some balls and played with it :-)

Yeyyy, me all smiles today :-)

J

New entry to my home :-)

Well, there are so many new entries to my home as part of the home setup process :p But this one is special to me as it gives me company the whole day. I was all excited day before yesterday when I got this delivery. Woo hooo :-) sema sound, gum nu songs elaam kaetutu iruken :-) Vaettaiyaadu Vilayaadu "Uyirilae enadhu uyiralae", Anniyan's "Ayangaaru veetu azhagae", Thiruda Thiruda "Chandralaekaa", Pudhiya Mugam "Naetru illaatha maatram ennadhu". OMG -- Sooooo nice to listen to songs..I just LOVE that..apdiyae, it gives me the feeling of flying in the air..ennamo achieve panna maathri oru happy feeling....manasae light'a irukum..:-)

Idhula nethu Tamil songs kaekrathaa, Telugu va nu vera poatti enakum A kum LOL :D This one is a 3 cd player, so oru combination la kaetom ;-)

J