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Viji demonstrating on jewellery making - was really interesting. The outcome depends only on our creative imagination

Next was Lakshmi and myself having a joke (can't remember what it was), Viji dancing with the capsicums before preparing the salad, Akhila showing the pretty kolam paper cups. One thing everyone will notice is the eating photos only I am there as everyone wanted to take revenge on me because I was clicking all the naughty photographs, Jaya cutting vegetables for salad and the lovely paper cups again

This is a group of photos of the very start of the meet from leaving Lakshmi's house in the car (Lakshmi talking to Jaya about the ince-cream turning into milk shake), Rani's residence, introductions, eating pal kozhukottai, Akhila entry, then vekkapattufying like a bride (feeling shy) while eating pal kozhukottai and finally the grand entry of Maamiyaar and Marumagal

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Venue - Rani Selvaraj's residence in Chromepet.

The ‘Black Cats’ that attended the meet - Lakshmi Raghu, Sumathi, Manivasuki, Jaya Mohan, Judy, Usha Venkatesan and her daughter Nive, Akhila, Subashini, Aparna and Rani.
The ‘Navy Blue Cat’ (hehe - the sole reason for all the rest to dress up in black) Viji.

Episode 4 - THE GRAND FINALE

Episode 3

Part 2 of the episode

The Chennai Anniversary meet was a fun day and complete details will follow shortly. Due to my children's college projects I could not upload any of the photos earlier. I know everyone is eager to see the photos. Here is what happened while trying to open a miranda bottle. WE PROVED LATA'S TERM - BUNCH OF ROWDY RASCALS. We had to use a knife, grinding stone and screwdriver to open a MIRANDA BOTTLE. Can you believe it??

Enjoy this friends

For those who are interested, I am just giving an example of how I did the recently displayed paDikOlam (made on 20 Feb 2010). The accompanying picture will guide you. I have skipped some of the intermediate steps. Fig. 1 shows the symmetrical hilly pattern I created. This was rotated by 60, 120, 180, 240, 300 degrees and assembled on the outside of a hexagon as shown in Fig. 2. The same assembly is done inside of a hexagon in Fig. 3. Fig. 4 is a tear drop with dots etc. constructed separately beforehand. A hexagonal assembly of this is shown in Fig. 5.