Rakhi 2007

Rakhi this year fell on August 28. This was Mamli & Bablu's 3rd Rakhi. Rohan Padhi (Gulu), my brother-in-law, visited us for Rakhi. Gayatri, my sister, had sent Rakhis for me and for Bablu (from her two daughters, Meghu & Chikoo).

We celebrated Rakhi in the morning.

Gulu had brought his camcorder and shot a movie of the proceedings.

 

Video Album 2 - Rakhi 2007

(Click image above to see the video on Picasa Web Albums)

Here is the embedded video.

Durgesh Nandini's New Web Site - Powered By Google Apps!

Earlier this year I had registered DurgeshNandini.name on Net4Domains.com. I had not hosted anything on the domain and simply set URL forwarding to my web site, Satpathy.in.

I read about Google Apps a few weeks ago and decided to use the DurgeshNandini.name domain to set up a site using Google Apps. The sign up was straight forward. However Net4Domains does not have tools online to make all the required changes like CNAME changes etc. Some of the changes I could make on the Net4Domains dashboard but for the others I had to raise support tickets. They responded fairly fast, typically within 24 hrs.

I now have personalized email, Docs & Spread Sheets, Calendar etc along with web pages on the new web site. Do check it out.

Mamli & Bablu On Independence Day (August 15, 2007)

This year both Mamli & Bablu participated in the Independence Day celebrations in our complex (Steel & Mines, Srinagar Colony, Hyderabad). They had practiced a song each and sang them after the flag hoisting. Watch the videos below.

Mamli's Song

Bablu's Song

Flickr Slide Show On Blogger!

I saw this neat Flickr Slide Show app on Blogger Templates, a great place to find Blogger related information, tips & tricks etc.

This post is a test to see how things work. I will post instructions on the usage in a subsequent post.

 

Mamli's Star - Class 3D, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School, Jubilee Hills

Mamli is now in class 4. Last year she did rather well. She won a number of prizes and managed to beat the the person she was most afraid would do better than her!

I took these photos with my mobile phone and have been meaning to post them here for some time now. Well here goes...

Well done Mamli. No pressure but we do hope to see the same again this year!

 

Mamli & Iraq

Oh my God! There is a place in Iraq called Mamli! For those of you who don't know this, Mamli is my daughter's pet name!

I was going through the web server logs today and came accross a referlink from Google with Mamli as the search term. Needless to say I was a bit surprised because to us Mamli is just a cute sound byte and does not really mean anything. It was gratifying to note that my web site was the first link with Mamli as the search item. Anyway, a little bit of scrolling later I realized that Mamli is actually the name of a place in Iraq!

I must research this more!

Another link! - Mamli
google map

Holi Haii !!!

Holi, the festival of colors is a time to have a lot of fun. I will write more about Holi in a later post. For now, here are a few pictures of my daughter playing holi with some of her friends.

Holi Haii...

Niki, with Durgesh nandini in the background, filling her color spray gun...

Afshan, another friend of Durgesh Nandini.




Durgesh Nandini with her color spray gun...

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Flying Kites (Sankranti 2005)

On Sankranti this year we had a get together at Mathew's place in Secunderabad. Ravi, Vatshala, Padmaja, I along with Mathew and Nivedita. We had a good time in the late morning, then we went to buy kites and all the other stuff you need for flying kites. Came back with about 8 kites. A colleague of Mathew who is an expert at kite flying also joined us. Got back to the house in time for lunch.

After lunch we took the kids to the roof top and had a good deal of fun with the kites. The kids enjoyed themselves a lot. And so did we !!!

From left to right - Nikhil (Ravi's eldest son), Ananya (Mathew's Daughter) and Durgesh Nandini (My daughter). Getting ready for kite flying..

Mathew & Ananya with their kite...

Durgesh Nandini's kite...

Durgesh Nandini flying her kite...

Ravi & Nikhil with their kite.

Mathew showing Ananya how to tie a kite...

Jyotiraditya with Sangeeta. He was sleepy that day and rather out of it...

Ravi with Druvh, his second son.

Padmaja & Jyotiraditya...

Padmaja with Jyotiraditya and Vatshala with Druvh

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