Dance at Mickey's 5th bday Party

Just posting the video.. I am due a lot of posts.. I know.. Will post sometime..


Here is the Video

Funny English Name of Places in Karnataka

Need a good party game for elders and the young adult? Don’t have the time to prepare. Here is a game that has been a hit in all parties where I know it was played. Funny English names of Indian Places. Hand out a list of Place names translated in English. All participants have to identify the actual place name from the translated meaning. Let me explain with an example, Win Town is the translation. If the participant identifies this as Jayanagar, then he gets a point. It’s an easy game once you know the place names. But until then, it’s a brain tickler.

In a party in Bangalore, where the participants could relate to Kannada more than Hindi, it was a tough task to find English translations for the places in Karnataka. So I came up with this list of places in Karnataka that I have translated to English. Play this game and check it out for yourself the enthusiasm of people in the party.

  

1.      New Fort                                Hoskote/Hosdurga

2.      Answer Village                      Uttarahalli

3.      Young Daughter’s Town       Chickmagalur

4.      Monday Market                    Somvarpet

5.      Queen’s Lake                        Arsikere          

6.      Medicine Town                     Maddur                      

7.      New Town                             Hosnagar/Hospet

8.      Sparrow                                 Gubbi

9.      Hunting Town                       Shikaripura

10.  Almondy                                 Badami

11.  Elephant Stone                       Anekal

12.  New Market                           Hospet

13.  Picture Fort                            Chitradurga

14.  Ripe Shop                               Belthangadi

15.  God’s Village                          Devanahalli

16.  Queen’s Back Town               Ranibennur

17.  Seed Town                              Bijapur

18.  Holy Water Village                 Thirthahalli

19.  Bead Share                              Manipal

20.  Door Fort                                 Bagalkote

For Funny English names of Indian Places, refer to site, http://www.citehr.com/415967-funny-meanings-places-english.html

or find it here

Indian Cities (Hindi Meaning)

1.      Ear Town                       Nagpur

2.      Water is Under            Jalandar

3.      Mr. City                         Shrinagar

4.      Unmarried girl             KanyaKumari

5.      Make Juice                   Banaras

6.      Green door                   Haridwar

7.      Face                               Surat

8.      Saint Hair                      Rishikesh

9.      Snake City                     Nagpur

10.     Rhythm of Eyes          Naynital

Indian States (Hindi Meaning)

1.      Great Country              Maharashtra

2.      Do Drama                     Karnataka

3.      Answer Place                Uttar Pradesh

4.      King’s Place                  Rajasthan

5.      Come Evening              Assam

Have fun playing this game!!!!!

May 16th this year

Have been wanting to write this for about 15 days now. Thought better late than never!!!! :)

For all of you who did not know, I joined my current company on May 16th. So on this day, this year, I complete 7 years of my stint with the current company. That's out of the scope of this post.  Coming back to the topic, what did I do for Shri's 33rd Bday????

The research began about 3 weeks before his bday. The internet gave ideas like 

a) Give him a B'day card written in 33 languages

b) Give him love coupons

c) Do a party with 33 people

d) Make him feel like a kid and have a kid's party. (One of these years when I really can't bare his monkey business anymore, I may do this. Everyone who know him will know why)

e) Any regular gift would not be sufficient, would it?? 

I couldn't decide what to do. Then, I got so busy with .. you know what.... for a change.. work.
Then there was the chicken Pox. And on Monday, a week after we had been to the Sunday Soul Santhe and 2 days before Shri's Birthday, it struck to me that I had not planned anything. Then, I called up Ms. P from 'The little things - gifts' whom I had met at Soul Santhe. She promised me that she would deliver 'Customized Love Coupons' on the 15th if I could collect it from her.

I have to write about everything I have had to go through to get a gift that was different what I gave him previously. 15th evening was very cloudy so I decided to take an Auto to go to Ms P's house and it started raining. I have never been out in such heavy rains in an auto. Call it my luck, the driver's luck or the auto's luck, we just missed a falling tree. I could feel a few leaves touch my legs. :) The pedestrians were screaming 'You are lucky'. It took me a while to come out of that shock. I was completely wet by the time I reached Ms. P's house. My heartfelt gratitude to Ms. P and her mother who invited me to their house, mind you I had chicken pox, and served me hot coffee and also forced me to change my clothes.

Coming back to the gifts, I got the love coupons very well gift wrapped by Ms. P. Shri being Shri I didn't know what his reaction would be. So to be on the safer side, I bought a cake, T Shirt and a Bermuda shorts for the Chaddi Chikka. I really don't know if he liked it as there was no reaction from him at all.  

 

Anyways, here are a few pictures from the day!!!!! 

 

Chaddi chikka in his new clothes that were both one size smaller.  :(

Anyways, here is a sneak peak into the Customized love coupons which I think Shri liked. There were about 10 coupons and here are a few. 

 

With Love to Shri!!!

 

The picture is of him and his boys together. On the farthest left is Shri!!

Difficult one for me!!!!

It says, one instance of Public Embarrassment will be bypassed without any complains. Everyone who knows Shri would know the significance.

Exclusive use of remote for one night!!! I want one of these coupons too!!!

 

 

 

Signing off now, I have to start writing about something else now. :)

Birthdays over the years!!!

What comes to ones mind if it is a dear one's b'day??? Cake, gifts, flowers, parties... Basically I would like  to be made felt special eery b'day, year after year. That is the reason behind me putting in so much effort in making the person felt special. I try and do it for everybody dear to me. 

Now the question is, what do u do if that dear one is your spouse?? I have to make him feel special but how? Again, cake, flowers, gifts and parties. 

Cake - will be done. 

Flowers - a big no for Shri.. He won't even care.

Gifts - What do I gift him that I have not gifted earlier? I usually gift him something that is not very expensive but is different. And of Course there is the Floater from Bata and a T shirt. Let me get to that in a moment.
Parties - Throwing a surprise party every year is no surprise. I did that for Shri's 29th B'day (2008), when he was stepping into his 30th.

So what have I done in the past? and What do I do now to keep up with the past tradition?

2004 - This was his first bday after our wedding. It was very difficult but I thought a Vintage car would be a good idea. No No, Not the real one but a toy vintage car which he played with for over a month. Also got him a floater from Bata.

2005 - I seriously don't remember.  I sure do remember about the floater. It was just a replacement of the previous floater. Same model and same brand. I had joined Mcube in this year on this very day.

2006 - Got him a Writing board so he would complete his MBA/MCA. He didn't complete either. Also got him a wireless router. The floater was surely there (same model and same brand)

2007 - I think, we again bought a floater for him, this time not from Bata. :) I think he still uses the same floaters even today. So the tradition of buying floaters for him stopped this year, may be until this one wears out.

2008 - Surprise party on the terrace. Su was 8 months old. Ammi (Shri's sis) was pregnant. We really caught him off guard as Rakhi, Bharat, Indu and Krishna came.

2009 - If you ask Shri any question - 'what would u like to eat for breakfast?' The answer would be Curd Rice. If you asked him 'What would u like for lunch/dinner?' The answer would be Curd Rice. Now, you will know that it is not for his love for Curd Rice. The answer to the question 'Where will we go on Sunday?' also would be Curd Rice. or even the question 'What are you doing with the hammer?' also would fetch only Curd Rice. You won't know how bugging it is until you really experience it. So one b'day, Shri didn't have the regular cake instead he had, 'Curd Rice Cake'. I quote it coz, the result has reduced the probability of me getting 'Curd Rice' as a reply to only, breakfast, lunch or dinner. I can live with that. Believe you me, I seriously can live with that. :)


2010 - Don't remember doing much. We went to Pai Comforts for dinner. Just bought him a T Shirt and a Trouser.

2011 - This year, asked all friends to come home. My father in law was at home. Got him a T shirt. Asked all friends to write on the back of the T shirt when he was wearing it. He didn't know what was written on it until it was done and we showed him the picture. Later, I also gave him a Hawaiian Rum that Vij bought from Metro. The drinking card game was much used in Hardik's Bachelor's party in Dec 2011 and that which almost killed all of us.

2012 - What about this year???? Will let u know in a while as it is already 12 and I have to wish him now.. This year is no different from the past few.... It is going to be interesting, I promise.

Sumedhaa's Mothers day gift

I was surprised when Sumedhaa called me in the morning to wish me 'Happy Mother's day!' My day was made. In midst of the chicken pox pain and the sorrow of me not seeing Su though she is in Bangalore, her words had made my day. But the real treat came when Su called in the evening and told me "Amma, check your mail, you have a surprise mail. Check on You tube." And this was what was there on Youtube....

The best mother's day ever!!!!