Holi Aai !!!!

Longvale Duniya celebrates Holi
little princess ‘Raksha’ describes it in her words

“When it is holy, we have many colours, Some of them are green, pink, orange and purple. We apply the colours on our family members first. But when my family members, my friends and me where celebrating holy........ Wait let me start from the first.It was 7th of March. We(my family members, my friends and me) went to the reservoir park. We settled our things and went to get some water to add colours into it. Then we started playing. I was the first one to apply colours onto my sister(ullekha)but she screamed at me because the colour went into her mouth and eyes.Amma(rajani)took ullekha and rinsed her mouth and eyes and scolded me.Boo hooo hooo :(.........Anyway I still continued playing. When I was playing, I did not realize that I had a purple moustache. There were two late uncles............. wait a minute I forgot to tell you that Shreya didi did not come.Anyway the two late uncles were venkatesh uncle (Shreya didi's father)and Suresh uncle(sheshank's father).They were the people who was pink all over (that was because we did not have any other colour left).You know the next living thing which had pink all over it was...............SHERU!!!!!!!!!!!!!(Venkatesh uncle's dog)
I did not still realize that I had a purple moustache. Then Venkatesh uncle took a
picture of me and showed the picture of me to me(I FELT VERY EMBARRASSED).We had our lunch.We had jalebi,puri and many more.And at the end we all danced (except ullekha,the uncles and rajani)even Neel (sorry if I spelled your name wrongly )danced. Then we went home.”

‘Lagori’ , ‘Langoori’ @ Labrador

Labrador park, is one of the defense lines set up by British to defend Singapore from any sea based intrusion from north during their time of rule. The name 'Labrador' has still left me wondering without a convincing answer, wonder if it got derived from the Labrador road near by anyway it is a peaceful place to be in and will certainly qualify as a weekend retreat. Aside from a rich past of its own, Labrador Park has nice greenery, interesting rocky beaches and cool sea breezes to treat its visitors

Here is what ‘Ullekha’ had to say about her visit experience

The trip to Labrador Park was a really unforgettable experience. I am sure that the children and the adults enjoyed the trip a lot. The weather was supporting us for a while, but then it started to rain but that was also not for long. When we reached there, we found a nice and shady place. After that some of us climbed over the railing and sat very near to the sea.
It was then some of the children got a brilliant idea to climb the banyan tree nearby and swing from its branches using one of its hanging roots. ‘Raksha’ and ‘Bigas’ were very brave and climbed up as quick as a flash but ‘Raksha’ hit the lamppost once and still did not give up but I was very scared . The branch was so high above the ground!!! but somehow the uncles managed to make me climb up the tree but I started screaming and shouting and made a really big fuss. Then my father consoled me and told me to swing. I did it and you know what, it was so fun!!!!!!!So after we finished playing, we had a delicious meal of noodles, curd rice, fried rice, daal, parata, channa masala, gulab jamun and more. While we were eating our food venkatesh uncle brought up the topic of a old game called ‘Lagori’ which is also known as seven stones. So after food we all played the game and it was very nice so we made up our minds that on weekeds, instead of playing badminton and cricket, we will play ‘Lagori’ in the reservoir!!! But after some time the people got tired and we all sat down to chat. Then ‘Meena’ aunty recommended that we could play ‘French cricket’ me, shreya didi, mama and geeta aunty started playing French cricket but as time went on we got bored and we started to play normal cricket, After that we had some watermelon which was very juicy and we headed of for home. I really can't wait for other adventures!!!

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Gong Xi Fa Chai

Wish you all a Prosperous, Healthy, Happy New Year of the Tiger!

According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of 2010 is the Year of a Golden Tiger. The Tiger is one of the most beautiful creatures on the planet, and is feared and revered in equal measure. It features in many Asian cultures as a manifestation of courage, power, passion and royalty. Tigers are fond of competitions. They simply cannot pass up a challenge. They may appear cool and are unpredictable, and it would be unwise to underestimate their reactions.

Lets harness the qualities of the Golden Tiger and work towards achieving the success in our chosen path.

Gong Xi Fa Chai.

Happy New Year

Never Say Never Die

It’s a year since the cowardly, heinous massacre of innocent people in Mumbai by twisted trained Terrorists. The perpetrators who aimed to inflict a great blow to the very fabric of India- its secularism, thus hoping to derail its growth and economic progress, fell flat on there face. Defeated by the very common people who held on to their nerves and dealt with the situation, deeply united, bouncing back and returning a stronger nation than ever before.

Mumbai has shown time and time again that it’s resolve and resilience cannot be shaken by terror or tragedy. I Myself, having left with in close call on two testing situations the city underwent earlier, one on Mumbai flooding day and other on Serial blast 2006 , witnessed the terrific moments from close proximity. It’s amazing to see how the people of this city who totally let down by the authorities and the governance dealt with the situation rallying behind each other to address the issues and propel the city back to normalcy. As the saying goes “Mumbai never sleeps” Yes it’s true and its also true that “Mumbai never tires”.

This great business hub, The hallmark of India, symbolizes our strength and reflects our resolve to withstand injustice acts of cowardice inflicted upon us.
No doubt, time and again we have shown the character and withstood against all adverse situations and look for peaceful means of solving issues such as building external consensus through dialogs and discussions but isn’t it time we take our internal security matters into our hand and stop looking elsewhere??. Isn’t it time we act like a responsible nation and priortise the protection its people above rest.

After all, what a strong economic power is?, if it is not able to protect its People? Protect its borders? and provide justice by bringing the perpetrators of this crime to their knees denying them access to spill any further blood of innocent unharmed civilians on the streets.
This great nation resonates with deeds and doings of its great leaders who set exemplary examples by living the talk, so much so that leaders like Mahatma Ghandhi lived a simple common life so much so that he denied himself good cloths as vast majority of his people during that time could not afford clothes.
Its time our leaders who feel comfy in the safe ring of Z class realize that their primary responsibility is to safeguard the security and interest of the people who elected them and not just themselves. Its time they wake up

On this day, Lets pay our homage to people who laid down there lives on 26/11/2008 by joining our hands together at NDTV’s human chain
Jai Hind
Murali

Fengshan Divali Night

Having learnt about ‘Fengshan Divali Night’ a bit late, we weren’t sure about securing a ticket for this event. It came as surprise when we heard from the community member that they may be able to accommodate us. Having managed to get an entry, it didn’t surprise us to find ourselves at one of the back row table but soon it was all smiles as the very same table turned out to be among the lucky one to win a table price.
The Event was very well organized, the audience were entertained by a few amazing dances by Malay kids who danced to Hindi songs and Chinese kids, who displayed a lantern dance, the orchestra of traditional Tamil songs was good.
The south Indian traditional band dance was amazing; it filled the hall loud and clear and reflected the festivities back home. It also doubled up as a welcome party to greet guest of honor Mr. Raymond Lee. The spicy Indian food not only added the aroma for the event but turned out to be delicious, to finish off it was the lucky dip.
It was indeed a good experience and was a nice opportunity to meet and greet members of different community who came together to celebrate the ‘Divali Night’. All in all it was a very well cherished evening at vicinity of home.
Murali

Deepavali Dhamaka