Thi's Wedding!

 Arundathi (Thi to my sister n me), is a good friend, my sister's PG classmate and Thi recruited me into Frost & Sullivan. It was finally her turn to tie the knot :)  A lovely girl with a knack for keeping friends and my - absolutely unbelievable ability to keep in touch with friends!!!

Was her Mehendi ceremony on Saturday and we, my sis n me, reached her place in Thiruvanmiyur arnd 3:15. Most of the junta was knew but some that i know of as her friends. This was an occassion where all her many different friends finally to got to meet others that they've been hearing about but never met before :)

Aarti, Saroja, VJ, Mangala, Subashree, Anusha and Anandhi - nice folks all from very different attitudes but was great to meet 'em all. I guess I've never really been a part of a gathering where i didn't know the crowd so to speak but i enjoyed it thoroughly. Starting Ryzing after having met them all. A lot of the group were friendz of Thi's from having networked in Ryze. Infact, she met her husband, Sachin, at a ryze gathering.

Wedding was on Monday, Mom was coming down to Chennai for the wedding. She n my sis headed over earlier while i went along a bit later. Different wedding to see for me - Konkani ishtyle! Saree worn different, different ceremonial procedures, the works. Finally rushed to work and headed for reception in the evening. Met up with the Frost junta - Andy bhai, Ranjith, Rajesh, Hari, JD, Anu, Sharon, Tammy, Lalitha, Anusha and several others. Was nice to say to them after this time.

Thi n Sachin are heading to Goa for their honeymoon, followed by a reception in Secunderabad (Sachin's family hails from there).  See wedding pix attached.... On the whole, had a whale of a time, made new friends and ate happily!!

Julie's Wedding - Finally!

A friend of mine tied the knot on Thursday (18th Sept) - Julie's wedding was a much awaited event.  Santhosh works for Polaris and altho' they'd been engaged for over two months, the friendz circle at Synaptris just never got to meet him in person.

We all introduced ourselves to him after the wedding, Julie was getting ready for the reception and we were on our way to meet her backstage :)

Super biryani as promised but sob sob I sat with one of the really late batches as my husband didn't come in until quite late. He could only come after the unit closed.  Anyways by the time we finally sat down to eat, the Chicken fry was mostly over. She's promised to feed us a great meal soon :)

Left early from work, hopping to be there in time for the  wedding service but as inevitable when plans are made, we reached mid way during the ceremony. Ahhh the ceremony - well it was different to sit thru a Protestant wedding service - lotsa funky Christ music, albeit all in Tamil.  Songs were along the lines of 'Eesu super star' :)

Anyways Gai and me headed over to my place to get ready, while Mathu went home to bring Teju. The plan was to meet at my place and head from there. Drive was rainy but not long enuf to cool the place, the entire place heated up a bit too much.

Teju was adorable, happy listening to the hip Christ music and all the new faces arnd. Our boss, Kalai came in later, along with Priya n LP.  In all, there were close to 80 from Synaptris, huge showing, especially as Julie was known to a lot of folks at work.

Pix of Teju,  Julie's wedding attached :)

Karuna was due first week of Oct and Friday was supposed to be her last day, she was taking off for Maternity leave, but imagine our shock when I received an sms on Monday morning saying she was in labor. She has a lovely baby boy - 2.7 kg, and mom is doing fine. Infact we spoke to her almost 40 mins after the delivery, but phew! it sure was a long labor - more than 12 hrs.......
Pix will be uploaded when i get hold of some

Babies babies everywhere.......

Lots of stuff happening in my life at the moment, well not directly to me per se, but around me :)
My closest pal, Suni, had a baby girl, name unknown still, but she looks a real heartbreaker from the pix i saw of her. 
Another good friend at work, Gayathri,  is in her last trimester and all of us at work cant' quite wait to see the lil' one.
She's one of those fun folks to be around, always lightening up the place with her antics.
She either whacks one of the boys arnd coz she gets these urges to let out some steam or watch out, a hard thump on your shoulder.
From what i hear, it pains a bit and then goes numb but whatever it does, it sure as heck lightens up the place for the rest of us :))

Another friend at work, Mathu, has a lovely baby boy - Tejas, adorable little imp he is.
The first time we saw him, we thought he was this serious looking kid, guess he was just disoriented from all the racket and ruckus being kicked up, thanks to us seeing the new mom after a long time. And let me tell u, we can be one noisy group when we get together. 
The latest pix we saw of him was this cutie in a bucket with this expression on his face saying 'Ahem wat exactly am i doing here and how the heck will i get out!!!!!'

My boss has a little girl, Anjali, she's a few days short of a year and is one smart cookie.
Tom-boy to the core, she's going to grow up having a funtime. Altho' i doubt the family will feel the same, if you want to confirm just as my folks!!

So with all of these babies around, my folks are feeling the pinch as they've yet to become grandparents :)  Neither me nor my sis are currently considering expanding the family, circumstances don't allow for them yet. Cliched but true.

Gai has her checkup this morn and returned all frazzled, poor thing is still unsure when the big event is likely, neither her doc nor she are sure of the dates so que sera sera is the situation there.

This is my first post and thought i'd start with wats the most eventful in my life at the moment.......