day or nite its the festival of light....

Been more than a month and a half since i scribbled something....

Its late night...well actually its 2:30 am so technically early morning...so what am i doing when i should be fast asleep....something is on my mind thats keeping me awake (Apart from talking to my friend on gtalk)....

Its that time of the year when night turns to day (wattt that happens everyday now doesn it!!!)...darkness turns to bright light(we call that dawn man!!!)...silence turns to loud sounds of bombs....bombs...yea bombs...atomb bombs...wowie...now we are talking...bijlee vedi...redforts...lakshmi vedi's...10,000 wala that keep on going for 15 mins...an my personal favorite...the double sound...whether it is kuruvi brand or standard....its dwali...and you better play it safe...

Diwali is generally a time when my entire family gets together....my uncle...aunt...cousin come home the day before...a mad rush to the stores at the eleventh hour to get the jean n t-shirt....get some whisltling rocket...n other less polluting cracers...yeah rite we are the more society Conscious bunch...ask y and i can give u "n" number of reasons....try child labor...noise pollution...smoke...air pollution for size...anyways...getting back to the nicer things...where was i...yeah...how could i forget the most important thing...the aroma of ghee rich savories n sweets that fills the air...we gather around after dinner....try an play some cards...not just any game but our family special...MAIL....not the slow one but the fast one...as usual i end up losing....then its time we hit the bed....

its 2:30....no no not now...but 2:30 on the day of diwali...mum wakes up first...then aunt...then all the kids one by one...after brushing up n everything...its time for the royal treatment...tadaaa...a good oil massage...some nalangu....an then a small piece of vethalai n paku...i don eat but this is sastram and sambrathayam so have to give into it an eat..what to do...jus kidddin...after that is done...a gud hot bath....then come out go to the pooja room...thatha takes the new dress an hands it over for me to wear...which i with all enthusiasm wear fast fast an come out to proudly show to everyone..."ada ada summa super ah eruku"...."perfect size and fitting"...."suma hero mathiri eruke"...."kalakal po" nu lam comment parakum suma.... chumava...namma pota vera epadi "suma athirum la"...then one by one ashok and vijay will also get ready..then chittapa an dad will also get ready..then what we do is nothing short of incredible...you would expect us to burst cracker rite...after all its diwali...but naahhh remember social consiousness n all....we sit around as a family in front of the T.V...with a cup full of muruku....palgova...ladoo...everything in hand...n jus watch every single program from nadaswaram to leoni patimandram to the "thiraku vandu theatre lendu odi poi sila naatkale aana putham puthiya mokkai thirai padam ungal sun tv il"... parka thavara matom....aparum kalambi elle relative vetuka poi....kal la vizhara mathiri vizhundu...collection (athane main matter) atha vangindu...nalla pillai mathiri aathuku vara vendiyadu...aparum round 2...main course vada payasathoda virundu than....evening varaikum apadiye tv...then nite ka ellarum poiduva kalambi aparum nan thirumba tv pathutu...nite saptutu padutha...habbadi...diwali mudinjidu da nu erukum....

enge epo...nan erukan...ashok erukan...vijay um erukan...diwali um vara pogudu...aana...mum...dad...chitti...chittapa...enge??? nalangu naane potuka vendiyadu than....sweet um panika vendiyadu than...tv um net la pathuka vendiyadu than....aana onnu....patasu vedika Illinois Govt la permission theva elle....ennapa evalavu time sola...naanga social Consciousness oda alayara kumbal la....Happy Diwali....have a blast....but remember...its diwali...play it safe....