Monthly Archives: April 2008

Lindt – Swiss Classic

Lindt – Swiss Classic

Lindt – my favorite chocolate. It is available in five different flavors in Euro store in Male’. I love all the four flavors since it is very delicious. Milk – Coffee, Milk – Extra fine, Milk – Raisin nut, Milk – Extra cream. Lindt Dark chocolate is not my favorite since it is having the bitterness of the raw chocolate.

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snap of me having three different flavors of Lindt – Swiss classic

Vishukkani

Vishukkani

Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous Vishu

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Vishu is normally celebrated in Kerala as the new year of Keralites. It is marked on the 1st of Medam, based on the lunar calendar. It normally falls on the 14th of April, every year.

Vishu is celebrated among the farmers to celebrate the new sprouts of the fruits. All the young fruits are decorated in urulhi (a brass vessel) with konna poovu (a yellow colored flower which blooms on this particular occasion) gold, new cloth, coins, and sindhoor. It is believed that if you see all these things together on this particular morning, you will be blessed with all the prosperity through out the year.

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My vishukkani

Today very early in the morning, mom woke me up and dressed me well while I was keeping my eyes closed, and took me to the pooja corner where everything was kept ready. After that dad gave me kaineettam (giving coins) but i denied. I didn’t actually know what was it for. I think I made him sad…. Sorry dad

Kuda bandos trip

Kuda bandos trip

Yesterday, I went to Kuda Bandos, a small uninhabited picnic island, which is very close to the capital city (male’) of Maldives. I went by a speed lounge and it took 15 minutes to reach there. I went with my family and dad’s friends.

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this is the speed lounge which carried us to the kuda bandos

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we are waiting in the boat jetty in Male’

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I am inside the speed lounge

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we reached kuda bandos

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kuda bandos beach is very clean as well as very beautiful

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in the left hand corner of the above photo is having a small dais which is the remaining of a program stage. Earlier in kuda bandos, they used to have programs. Kudabandos is in Guinness books of records for  Scuba diving.  More than 800 PADI certified divers from across the world participated and all the divers dived at the same time.

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on the beach

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sand play with Tisha

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break fast, poori, sausage, fish curry etc.

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the best acrobat

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parachute fly in kuda bandos

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lunch time

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chicken biriyani

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like a kangaroo

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with an other friend, achu

After all, the picnic was wonderful and everyone enjoyed well. There was a very wonderful game named  two-in-one panty race.  Two people share the same panty and run. In the couple panty race, my mom and dad won the race. Oops!!!!!!!!!  no photo……..