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SADABISHEKAM 80th Birthday or, more exactly 80 years and 8 months. Yesterday 11-05-2018 was the Sadabishekam of Vijaya's cousin Mr. Lakshminarayanan (aka DINAMANI). He and his wife live in Pune City and they came to Sri Vedavyasar Tapovanam near Tambaram, Chennai to celebrate it. He had invited me over the phone and then sent the Invitation also. Yesterday (11th May) we two left house by 6-00 and reached the venue by 6-30. Many persons had gathered already. Lalita and Kumar came by 7-30. We had breakfast there. Maangalya tharanam was over by 8-15 and the function came to an end. Though we wanted to return then, Mt Dinamani insisted to take Lunch also. So we waited, had lunch by 12-15 and left by 1-15 PM. It was a very hot day. Dinamani's 4 brothere (Dhanyan, Babu, Venkatesh, Krishnan) had come and also Mr Srivathsan. Vijaya had a great day with her cousins. God Bless all. Rajappa 12-5-2018 12:37PM

There was Aditi Drama at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, East Mada Street, Mylapore on 8th May 2018.(Tuesday). We two left house by 4-45 PM and went to Sri Adi Kesava Perumal Koil and Sri Srinivasa Perumal Koil first. We are going to these temples after 5 or 6 years. The water tank of the temple is dry, very dry. Once, it was brimming with water. Adi Kesava Perumal Koil Temple Tank - DRY Next we walked to East Mada Street. Since it was very earlt, we went to Mami's Mess nearby, and had bondas. We took a parcel for Aditi or someone else. (We gave it to Lalita-Kumar) Then we entered Bhartia Vidya Bhavan, took our seats. Later Lalita-Kumar also came and they sat next to us. The drama started by 7PM; actually there were 4 bits of drama skits each for 25-30 minutes. Aditi's was the second. It was uproarious, with Aditi shining all the way. God Bless the child. ADITI's Drama Once the drama (4 parts) was over, L-K took an UBER home. We walked to Mami's ...

TRVG's son HARI got married to POORNIMA on 22 April 2018 at JD Mahal, Chennai. JD Mahal is 500 meters away from Kamatchi Hospital. We two went on the evening of 21st also. Aditi came with us. Many had come from Hyderabad - Ganesan, Sivasubramaniam, Vaithyalingam, Saibaba, Subba Reddy, UAV Prasad, Ramakrishnaiah etc. Ramesh P PAI had come from Kochi ! Aditi enjoyed eating the Buffet dinner. We two went on 22nd for the marriage also. It was a grand affair. After a grand lunch, we returned home.  God bless the young couple. Rajappa 22-04-2018

BANGALORE VISIT We two started on 2nd MARCH 2018 Friday morning by Double Decker Train to Bangalore. We got down at Cantt station where Ashok was waiting for us with his car. We reached home by 2PM. On 3rd March, we went to Whitefield with Ashok and Neeraja for seeing houses. Went to GV Kumar's house and chatted with Kamala chithti. 5th March MONDAY. Upanayanam of Aswatha Narayanan's grandson at RagiGudda koil. Vittalachar, his daughter Madhavi were there and we had a long talk with MVV. After lunch we returned home by 2 PM 8th March :: I fell ill. It continued till 27th March !! 10 March -- Srividya, Pasupati came. 11 March -- Krishnaraj, Gayatri came 18 March -- UGADI.  Rs 3700 sent to Bhaskar for Rama Navami 19 March -- TRVG and Saraswathi came and handed over the invite for marriage of HARI 20 March -- Dandapani Mama expired at Mumbai. 26 March -- Dresses for SS, AA purchased. 28 March -- NEW CAR VERNA PURCHASED BY ASHOK. 29...