Onam @ my office :-)
Onam @ TEL Trivandrum
Here I am, back with one more of my so-called narrations – this time about the wonderful experiences which I had during the Onam celebrations at our office...
Being in God’s own country – Kerala, I’d been anticipating this Onam week for quite sometime – just for the kind of festivities which tend to unfold here. And, it was really a wonderful time during August 16-20 at our office when the celebrations begun in full splendour. Competitions
such as Valam Izhukkal (Tug-of-war), Kalam adi (Hitting a pot blindfolded), Uriyadi, (quite common.. everybody knows), along with certain music novices in action with group songs, instrumental music etc.,
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The Athapookalam is the most significant section of the week, with teams coming up with the most imaginative and culturally-rich designs to be enriched with myriad varieties of flowers.
First prize winning Pookalam!
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Our team’s design went through the following stages – and – I must say, it was fun arranging the Pookalam, drawing the paper figure on the floor with the markers – rubbing them off unintentionally as and when we tried drawing the upper portions of the figure – making the different coloured flowers ready for use in Pookalam – finally setting the flowers in their respective portions of the figure – intricately removing the wrong-coloured flowers which spilled by mistake on the unwanted areas – finally rendering the finishing touch by filling up regions where floor is visible . . . Wah.. It needed extreme patience to set it right. . . My floor mates were really good enough and were upto the task. Here are some snaps for you:
It all culminated with the special Onam Sadhya arranged for us – typical Kerala cuisine.
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i really didnt knows u writes blog..:)
its good yaar...