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                              HAPPY NEW YEAR                                            2024                           WELCOME ABOARD  Flight 2024 will depart from Gate 23 of Terminal 02 shortly . All passengers of the Premium , Business or Economy class are requested to take particular care of their Baggage . Please ensure that your  Baggages  contain only  the Prized Souvenirs of 2023 and the many before that .  It will be  in your own interest to discard all the trash and accumulated muck of the past years  in the bins provided at various vantage points at the Airport . This includes the memories of the  hardships faced during the recent bout of extremely Heavy Rains in Southern Tamilnadu  and also the havoc caused by the Cyclone  Michaung in and around Chennai.  This would save you from a  lot of stringent security checks ahead . The duration of the flight will be exactly 12 Months and not a day more or a day less . The Good Lord Above  , ourr Flight Engineer and its crew take part

         GRANDSON ARYA'S 10 TH BIRTHDAY  Birthdays are always special and for my Grandson Arya this one was even more special as it was his 10th Birthday which in itself  is a Landmark and  the First of the many more ones to come in Future . The Birthday Celebration arranged at Golden Mile  Bowling Lane  was unique in more ways than one . For one , the Weather at Regina was at just -4 Degrees and sans any Snowing which was  in direct contrast to the day exactly 10 years back and the day Arya was born when the temperature was a staggering  -47 Degrees and the whole city of Regina Covered in a white Sheet of snow . The 18 Kids Gathered had a splendid time in the one hour that they had and trying their skill at the Bowling Alley which is not to mention with some of the Parents who too joined in trying their long hitherto hidden Skills . The Pop Corn , Soft Drinks and the Pizza which is always a favorite with the Kids was a special draw , as was the Delectable BIRTHDAY CAKE . A word mu

  SRIVAIKUNTAM STATION MASTER NEEDS TO BE                         APPRECIATED FOR HIS SERVICES                            SRIVAIKUNTAM RAILWAY STATION  Train Number 20606 Chendur Express that started from Tiruchendur Railway Station was held up at the Srivaikuntam Station after the Ballasts that held the tracks were washed away during the unprecedented recent rains on the Srivaikuntam to Seydunganallur section of the Tiruchendur to Tirunelveli Section . It must have been a real lifetime experience for the SRIVAIKUNTAM Station Master Jaffer Ali and a handful of Railway Staffers who had to keep at ease around 500 distressed passengers of a Train that had been stranded there for a few days due to incessant rains and floods since Sunday 17 th Night . They were left alone to face the fury of Nature and a hostile set of passengers who were becoming more difficult to handle with each passing hour . The Train with around 800 Passengers onboard reached SRIVAIKUNTAM at 9.20 PM on Sunday . Jaffer

              KALYAANAMAM KALYAANAM Not all might be in tune with the Dialect or the typical language used . What it does do is revive memories of good old days of a Ravanasamudram Agraharam Marriage . I have been witness to many such weddings during my school days .   My own Wedding at a Bhajana Madam in Tuticorin in 1978 is a part mixture of both the OLD AND NEW .  ( I must hasten here to add that the piece below in Tamil is NOT my original but one which I came across and thought of sharing with my friends in the group . )  # கல்யாணம் ஆகா கல்யாணம் #     பிராமணர்கள் கல்யாணம் இந்த நாளை விட அந்த நாட்கள்ளதான் சிறப்பாக கொண்டாடியிருக்கி றார்கள்.     1940 கால கட்டங்களில் 5 நாட்கள் கல்யாணம் கோலாகலமா நடக்கும். அந்த கால கட்டத்துல சத்திரமெலாம் கிடையாதே. தெருவில் பந்தலை போட்டு அந்த அக்ரஹாரத்துல உள்ளவாளோட அகங்களையெல்லாம் கல்யாண ஏற்பாடு பண்றவா உபயோகம் பண்ணிப்பா.      1970-களில் உள்ள கல்யாணங்களை பார்ப்போமா.      அப்ப பெண்ணாத்துலயோ, பிள்ளையாத்துலயோ கல்யாணம் நிச்சயம் ஆகிடுத்துன்னா தபால் கார்டு ஓரத்து

                           SUKRAN OR VENUS  The picture above is the Bright Sukran or Venus above the Moon at 8.00 AM on 9 th Dec 2023 . What is surprising is its Brightness and it being almost Dark at 8.00 AM in the Morning at Regina in Canada .  More about Sukran or Venus in the Article below .             Sukra, known as Venus, is the sixth among the Navagrahas, the nine planets. The word Sukra in Sanskrit means ‘lucid, clear and bright’, and as such Sukra is the brightest planet. Venus has feminine energy.  Goddess Lakshmi  is the presiding deity. The signs  Taurus  and  Libra , the second and seventh in the natal chart are ruled by Venus. He is the lord of the stars  Bharani ,  PurvaPhalguni  and  Purvashadh Sukra is also known by several names like Shukra, Kavyaha, Shukra Reta, Shuklambaradharaha, Sudhihi, Himabhaha, Kundadhavalaha, Pugar, Asura Guru, Shubramshu, Bhargavaha and Sutaprada.  Areas of life attributed to Venus are material pleasure, affection to family members, intim