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

“Yeh Dil Maange More” ,

The Grand finale event lived up to the expectations and beyond. Providing us a wonderful day to spend with family, which was full of joy and fun.

The design and decorations of the Venue-central area was quite creative, The state of art lighting effect (drawn from individual contribution of serial lights) were simply great. Together they bought a professional touch and provided a great platform for the events to unfold. Thanks to the group ingenuity and congregate effort

The weather played along, what was suppose to be an overcast day turned bringing the much needed cheers all around. The cultural events were a treat to watch, the young ones shun the shy and performed elegantly the group dance ‘Mukunda Mukunda Song’, The ‘Hokey Pokey Dance’ were amazing to watch.
The Chinna Chinna Asai song, The Des Rangela Dance, The Aahun Aahun Dance were great entertainers. The dual synchronized effort in ‘Chudi Jo Khanke Dance’ was outstanding. This great performance along with the pleasant Nostalgic song presented by ladies, will definitely go on to prove as a “lead by example” to our Longvale kids for them to come forward, embrace the challenge and to exhibit their talents unhindered, exploiting the true sense of this get-together, which is to provide a platform for our kids to perform, enjoy and excel

The program compering was a nicely executed and well managed, The pride moment of awarding rewards and ‘Longvale Duniya’ certificates to winners on this occasion was definitely an encouraging step.

The Games that followed was highly exhilarating and fun filled, As usual the time passed so quick that we were only to be reminded by the huger call, The sumptuous meal followed by Musical chair and Housie Housie provided a perfect finish before retiring for the day with the main activity ‘To be continued’ for the next week.

The successful event like this cannot be accomplished if not for the devoted volunteers, who have strived in various ways, sometimes working as a committee group and many a times individually on the background to make this event happen.
The efforts focused towards putting smiles on the faces of our Longvale children and building a community that provides a platform of appreciation and encouragement with events like these is definitely emerging and on track.

We can now proudly “Pat on Back” and say “Yes We Can”.

Folks, don’t forget our “Jadoo ki jappi” a “pat on the Back” for your fellow mates, will C U all on the Craking day to crak, crak, crak!!!!!!

Wishing you all a very Happy Divali
Murali

Longvale Live

As our competition events drew closer to finish, all eyes are now focused on the grand finale event that we can hardly wait.

Beginning with the thrilling carom game, where the participants fought it out till last frame, often producing a nail biting finish, a delight for audience to cherish.
Followed by which was the children’s drawing competition where the little hands drew and colored with whole lot of conviction.
Then it was to men to muscle a tradition of cricket with two wicket, next was a game of badminton, a mixed double competition.

They say “Pictures speak a lot than words”
Sure it’s been the case. Having missed all the action of this event and rest of the competition so far, I and I’m sure rest of all who missed it like me would still be able to gauge the amount of interest and effort that has been put by the competitors to make this such a successful one.
Guess, the most difficult job lied with those poor judges, Not surprisingly all the dilemma, discussions and deliberations in judging this event are shown in there expressions. In an event like this, there could be only one winner and it’s the spirit of our group ‘Longvale Duniya’

Kudos to the competitors, who have demonstrated that the roots of our traditions are intact, alive and kicking no matter where we are, Congratulations to the participating and organizing team, A job well done !!!!!!"

Logo competition

Section 1(Presented by -> Geetha)
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Section 2 (Presented by -> Meena)
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Section 3(Presented by -> Poonam Ganesh)
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Section 4(Presented by -> Rajani)
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Long Vale Duniya – Embracing Harmonious Living with Ideal Values of love, peace, prosperity and Unity

Section 5-(Presented by ->Akanksha Verma)
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My Logo depicts the families in Longvale Estate.The red & white circle represents Singapore.The two bird houses represent our migration from India.The birds represent 'US' coming from all regions of India & united in Longvale Duniya.
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This Logo presented by "Akanksha Verma" secured 12 votes and has been judged the winner of our Logo Competition by our group members

Our heartily Congratulations to you ‘Akanksha Verma’


Section 6(Presented by -> Feroz)
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It captures Longvale estate, the people living in apartments and kids happily playing in the playground, with the outline depicting Singapore.

Section 7(Presented by -> Sonia)
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Logo Symbolizes the people living harmoniously and having fun at Longvale Duniya. Logo captures L&D of Longvale Duniya, people, apartment buildings and the playground, which plays the most significant role in creating this community. Various versions of the Logos are with the same theme in mind

Section 8 (Presented by -> Murali)
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The logo depicts a smiling cartoon of ‘Long Whale’ (‘Longvale’) king of the seas. This beautiful air breathing creature (Mammal like us) in not only known for its sheer size but as a symbol of strength to wade off any external threat, Symbol of courage to explore unknown dark depths, Symbol of endurance to move thousands of miles and above all its symbol of gracefulness, love, care and concern, exhibited by maintaining relations working in groups, communicating across thousands of miles, grooming their young ones on there footsteps by there side under watchful eyes. Which I believe is a clear representation of values a group should stand for

The cartoon character whale nick named ‘LV’ is been designed for our little ones to be passionate and part of this. It represents there naughty and joyful behavior. The character could eventually become our Mascot symbol and find a place on the back of our little ones in the form of T-shirts or caps

The building with the green shrub indicates our resolve to ‘Living Green’ making right environmental choices and taking actions to lead a healthier, sustainable livelihood in our very own ‘Desi Duniya’ where our drama unfolds every day.


Section 9 (Presented by -> Ullekha)
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Rising sun