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New Year 2011

New Year 2011 dawned on a bright note for us. This is the second "new-year-celeb" for us at Besantnagar.

Savithri was with us on Dec 31st. There was a two-hour kutchery by Krithika at Swami's hall, RK Mutt Road, on 31st. All of us (Savithri) attended it. Ramamurthy athimber also came for the concert.

Later in the night, we (except Savithri) went for a dinner outside. Eden was crowded, so we chose Ming's Masala, a Chinese restaurent. This is also nearby our house. We had Naan, stuffed kulcha, Aloo dum.

We didn't go to the beach, like we did last year. We slept off at 11 PM.

On 1st morning, we two and Savithri went to Varasiddhi Vallabh Vinayakar koil and worshipped the God. Then Savithri boarded 29C for Annanagar. Janani, Pradyun, Ram came to our house in the afternoon. We ordered food from Eden and Arvind and Ram brought the food here - all of us ate by 9 PM.

Arvind, Krithika, Aditi, Janani & family left for airport to see Ranjani and co who are on their way from CBE to USA.

I made a number of calls to Hyderabad/Chennai and wished my former colleagues. Strangely, no one from GRS family called us to wish happy new year !! A pity.

Thus, our new year 2011 went off.

rajappa
2 Jan 2010
10:00 AM
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