Saturday, January 12, 2008

FAMILY CALENDER

DEAR 9 OVER 90,

The Family Calender is indeed very cute and funny. All of enjoyed every bit of it.
This is a very good link to keep our family one and a UNIQUE FAMILY. Hats off to each one of
9 over 90 for the best calender we have ever seen.
Wish all a very happy 2008. The reply postings of the Calender are also very good.
We enjoyed reading them also a lot. Keep writing Kannan, Arun, Ravi and Dhan whose writings
we enjoy the most. Kathik's photos are very nice which make us go to our younger days.Keep posting photos, Karthik. Best of Luck to your INFOSYS entry.

Nattu Thangam.

Friday, January 11, 2008

Operation Desert storm

A word of caution to all non-9over90 members - a dangerous species called "9 over 90" is on the prowl. It can eavesdrop, take photos on the sly, dig up one's dirty past, put words into others mouth and plays practical jokes! Highly venomous and can strike when least expected to. So please watch out and stay away as far as possible. Their so called work of arts are generally "designed to send the dead scurrying for their pajamas". So I have taken up the responsibility to pitch in for the "Gen-Now" in its battle against the "Gen-Next".


Dig apart, it was one hell of a creative work! Congratulation to Kaks, Ravi, Dhan and Arun for this work of art. Neat job. And thanks for the world tourers of the year award. It is an altogether different matter that I have a very big hole in my pocket now. Nonetheless we would strive hard year after year to retain this award. We solicit generous contributions from high value "about to earn green stuff" members Jillu, Ravi and the Mappilai-in-waiting, to fund our trip to the West Indies and New Zealand! Hopefully we can celebrate the next New year in Jamaica.

Dreamer of the year award would have been an obvious choice - who else but Ramesh. The man's energy is amazing and time management is his forte. Worth taking a leaf out of his book. But whom did God give as a wife to him - someone who would sleep on 11th night, get up on 13th morning and ask innocently "what happened to 12th" !! That is a paradox and that's what makes life interesting. Am sure my dear brother would have run him very close for this award. I would have loved to see a "Self-less person of the year award" and the "Most hard working person of the year"category and Nattu would have won both the awards hands down. I think Robert Frost wrote the following lines for Nattu:

"The Woods are lovely dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep"

I was hoping to qualify for the Sports person of the year category award what with a "world record" of 14 minutes (3 kms) finish in the Bahrain International Relay marathon! But am sure clumsy Jillu would have shot down the proposal, the 15-Love bashing during Hacienda club badminton sessions weighing heavily in his mind. Come on Jillu, be a sport if not a sportsman!!

Had there been a Whinge of the year award, guess who would have got it? Piece of cake, who else but Varsha Ramesh. She has everything going for her - great intellect, God given talent, adoring parents - but still whinges. The Whinge goes like this; I don't like this college and I want to change, after some days it becomes I don't like the teacher and again after a few more days it becomes I don't like the bench on which I am sitting! Keep Whingeing Varsha, we all love you in spite of that. Her competition for this award would come from Soum but she would finish a distant second.

Raja anna is some one who would "squeeze the penny till it begs for mercy". Hence we are not surprised with that award. He understands the value of money unlike his 9over90 brethren. He would be my first nomination for a "Fighting against all odds" award next year. Keep ticking Raja anna and you have an indefatigable Jayanthi backing you all the time.

Had there been an award for "Great Escape" (Escape as in Tamil Comedian Vivek's dictionary) it had to go to Ravi, presently cooling his heels in the Uncle Sam's land. Few conversations with Ravi went like this; Before our trip to the US. Sudha chithi to Ravi " Hey Ravi we are coming to the US on 15th Dec" Ravi in reply " Hey that's great news. Am excited (in full josh). I have holidays during that time and I would be with you full time" After we landed in Atlanta on 15th Dec. Sudha chithi to Ravi " You know, we have actually landed in your country" Ravi in reply "When? (or was it why?). Sudha chithi "We want to come to Raleigh to see you and your surroundings" Ravi in reply" Yeah Yeah that's possible. But actually few of my friends are coming over to my place during Christmas and I won't be able to spent much time with all of you" Sudha chithi "That's ok but whose is that female voice in the background??. The line goes bust all of a sudden. After that for the next couple of days Sudha chithi was frantically trying to call Ravi but could hear only a voice recording "Hi this is Ravi and am presently not reachable. Please leave your name & number and I would get back to you if you do not happen to be my Uncle and Aunt from Bahrain"!! On a more serious note - we are now confident that he is going to hit stratospheric heights in his career. All the best Ravi.

We could have qualified Kaks for the the "Predicament of the year" category. The kid has 3 appointment letters with him but still still claims that he is without a job. Last heard Infosys came knocking on his doors. Will he or won't he? And what's his brother Sathish and Bhabi Shwetha upto these days other than procreation?? Wish you a very safe delivery, Shwetha.

That's been a very long one. Let us know if you enjoyed reading it. All in good jest and humour. Except for the one on Jillu. That was as close to reality as possible!! The theme of the day was "Make believe". Hope Walt Disney Inc. don't sue me for copyrights violation!

Khuda hafiz.

Sunday, January 6, 2008

2008 9over90 Awards

We have decided on making this an yearly event and this year’s outcome is a youthful response from Ravi and Dhanya to a challenge thrown on the open by Arun Ram. We hope all of you find this as exciting as we felt compiling this stuff.

‘Momma’s Boy/Girl’ of the Year
Kiki-Jayantee pair was the clear favourite for this one and this was not a difficult one for the judges. The pair has given the family some very sweet memories in the past year and let us see how they handle this burden of this tag in the following year. Neither the “ummas” of Varsha-Santhy nor the special bonding between Sudha and Pranit nor the down-to-earth mom-son behavior of Mohana-Arun could give any competition to Kikee-Jayanti.

Varsha's reaction to this: "How many more Ummas can give us this award?? :( "



‘Noise-maker of the year’
Nothing can be louder than Nattu’s “What’s your plan?”. However Arun deserves a sound applause for his mellifluous emails that made many a great fan of his writings. You have a long way to go dear Jillu.






‘World-Tourers of the year’
Swamis….
Honeymoon in forties…..
Now, the US; Will the next be to the West Indies…..
Swamis walked away with this award for the youthful spirit they show time and again. Can anyone give them some competition please ?



“Dreamer of the year”
Not only a dreamer was Mr.Ramesh especially in the last year. He is that kind of a person who has 25 hours a day and who sleeps only during that extra hour he has. He thoroughly deserves this award. 9over90 wishes you luck with all your ventures.



'Toughest-Decision’ Maker of the Year
Ahem Ahem…..That was a real toughie. Rajanna’s confusions on how to spend HP’s gold pots.And Varsha, who in the family thought she would decide on taking up this profession where she has to talk a lot to strangers. It would be interesting to see if the patients make her talk or she talks on her own. Kaks also had to take some tough decisions regarding his jobs. However, Nattu-Thangam made NEWS and the newsmaker with their decision. 9over90 is just happy about it!




‘Cooker of the Year’
Close competition within the family - I wanted to give it jointly to Chaithan-Ki-Bacha and the five flavored Pani Puri that had satisfied the taste-buds of many in the last year. Jammu’s Fried Rice will always be in the nominations. However, the low-availability did not take it to the distance that it would otherwise. Finally, the judges decided to give this one to Soum despite the fact that she has not done anything great in the kitchen to get her involved into the association’s activities. Everybody feels she seems to be in her own world always.



Santy's reaction to this: "It is a surprise that my tea did not even make it to the list of nominations !! "

Kanjoos of the Year
Arun preference to curd rice over a dinner at BBQ nation and Soum’s frugality with her wallet has been entertaining for the guests to discuss upon. Rajanna’s clever deaf and dumb acts won him this prestigious award.




Fastest Grower of the Year
The famous meeshai of Kittu has been grown by leaps and bounds in the last year giving him the AK-47 tag in the family. This was a clear winner over Nattu’s thoppay.


'Can't keep our eyes off each other'
The secretive 306 love affair ( Ravi’s N70 managed to catch some nice snaps of this couple. Look into the snap below) and Trivandrum’s Romeo-Juliat could not shake Radha Balu from stealing the limelight in the last year.


'News-maker of the year'
Ahem Ahem ….Shweta-Satish has made some fast progress and Jillu never fails to make some news now and then. The winner is an impending entrant into the family and thanks to him for contributing to some hot news that had been flowing through the family in the last year.
“Nayar chayaa….Enjooooy…” !



‘Blunder of the Year’ Award
No other nominations and the winner is Arun Ram !!


And Arun Ram gets a special award "Mr.9over90" for having been making his presence felt in the family throughout the year. Be it be his funny mistakes, Arun Ram's presence has made a big difference in every get-together that we have had in the last year. He has been the favourite chap amongst the elders and the youngsters and his affability deserves a mention at this time of giving away the awards.

Compilers - Ravi and Dhanya



Hope everybody likes the calendar and please use it and then treasure it. Everybody would receive a hard copy soon. Luv ya all.

Monday, December 17, 2007

9 over 90 awards

I wrote this award nominations last year... nothing much has happened this year that would change the award nominations altogether.

Apart from one more of Dhanya's entrepreneurial ideas coming into life. Varsha's volte face in choing MBBS as her life's calling, Kaks shift of fortunes to his current confused state , Sathish big marriage chaos, Arun and Ravi's packing bags to go abroad.

Soumya as usual is still comfy in her cast away role, makes no effort to reach out, Raja Anna complaining abt the recurring deposits and house hold expenses. Pranith, well well nobody knows whats up with him or his parents !! Last heard they were in some forests of florida :). Srishti has been the center of gravity for this 9 over 90 for this year and she will continue to keep that locus for some more years !!

No breaking news, no sensations, no adventures... what a lousy year it was...
Dhanya & Ravi... I am calling (Challenging) you out to be the Master of ceremonies for this years awards... If all the claims of youthful thinking is even partially true then lay it out in the open !!

I am coming home and dying to see some of you .... I am looking forward to

1)speak a lot of tamil
2)drive the two wheeler,
3)have my mom's world class tea
4) Play with and talk to dearest kikee
5) Gossip with my aunts
6) Eat Bhabi's Pani poori
7) Get scoldings from dad

and then I know it will be time to leave for HK :)

Love you all
Arun/ Jillu



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Hi Guys

I am planning to Instate the 9 over 90 Awards series.
These are truly interesting times for 9 over 90. Most of us are out of those dreary school days and the lovely college days, the eldest in the group is above 30 !! Most of us are in the bread winners group and some are on the cusp of it. Its time to recognize the man of the innings . Without any preamble lets jump right into it

The Best Bahu Award : This is an easy one, and I believe there is absolute unanimity in this. As the first Bahu, this lady made a cracker of a start. Raja after Marriage is totally anew from Raja before Marriage. She cements the fact that there is a woman behind a successful man. She swarmed all the biggies that matter in this house. She is the reference material for all new bride hunt !! Finally she is the mother of the cutest baby in this universe. JAYANTHEE deserves all these acclaim every bit... There will be many other bahus entering this household in days to come but no body can come even an inch close.... Bhabi you are the best. Many of us look up to you. we truly love you !!!

Be a Rebel Award : This one is slisha controversy but nevertheless true. In a Brahmin house hold like ours not many of us tend to get rebellious but this women does !! From making Atheist(Read Anti Brahminical) remarks to playing cricket with boys in early days to calling a spade a spade to going for a post doc when she had shinning cash offers in hand to looking for a boy herself outside the community she has done it all. A Rebel at Heart and a rebel in Deed.... DHANYA PARAMESHWARAN walks away with this award. All of us love you for your rebellious spirit. You show us hope to Rebel :). While we all love you for all of your rebellious stance and more , I also want to use this forum to berate you for any atheist remarks that you may have made. The coming year is going to be interesting for you and for all of us. It will be nice to see how you measure up to the Granny's. We will have fun watching U. Until then the rumor mills can work over night. Dhanya, All of us look up to you. You just BE A REBEL!!

Every Mommas boy Award : Every mom will dream to have a boy like this. Truly a mommas kid. Not one step wrong so far. From great marks in School days to doing the Sandhyavandhanam, Madhayanam promptly, to getting a fine college admit and bagging a great job he has been a nice boy all the time. Not one step wrong. When he was in Srirangam he played to the gallery there with his regular prayers. Kept his parents happy with his brilliant scores. Kept his friends in good stead with his fine sense of humor, Kept his cousins happy with timely help, Earned laurels at work and kept the bosses happy. Not one step wrong. Ravi Shankar B - you are truly every Mommas pride. All of us would have wanted to be like you at some stage.
I don't remember one blemish in your scorecard till date. However 9 over 90 unanimously feels that there is something abt you that you are hiding from all of us :). No Secrets in 9 over 90 please.

Best Debutante and Mr Popular : Easy one again. A Quick poll of 9 over 90 members will tell you that if there is a help anybody needs then there is only one guy they can go to. Parents Association know him as Dependable Kid, Some of them call him the most responsible kid. Boys of 9 over 90 often bash him for making us look bad :). Karthyk Anantha Krishnan deserves every inch of the Mr Popular Status. He is also anointed with Best Debutante award for bagging a nice job before completion of his BE. When he started his innings in BE,It was quiet a Shaky Start but just like his Idol Sourav, recovered Quickly to come out clean. A lot of us are going to bet on him for his indomitable spirit in life. He is truly a go getter. In years to come he is the horse that you should be betting on. He is the Stock that you should be buying in bulk. All the very best to you Karthyk.


Young Achiever Award :
Easy one, How many of us have had there Hoardings in mount road at age 15 ? How many of us have performed in the stage at age 12 ? How many of us make an appearance in TV with Such fine Elan that it looks like were born for it ? How many of us have CDs and cassettes released ? How many of us have received Zillions of awards from performing arts gurus. Varsha you are truly the 1 among the 9. Varsha only advise - Come out of Neyveli and live a life.

Style Bhai and Dark Horse Award :
Literally and thematically he is the dark horse :) The guy in Dubai is the Bride groom in Waiting. Lives life king Size . Owns a Chevrolet, naya Ghar, Soon a Nayi Biwi ... Badiya Hain . Satish Congratulations on your marriage.


Walk the Talk Award : This one goes to a Non Member. As a couple they have always walked the Talk. They Only Preach what they practice. Adorable couple. All of us look up to them. A lot of us want to be them. I seem to fail to capture the exact words to anoint them. There are a few things that's best left unsaid. Leave it to the readers imagination.
Nattu Mama and janaki Manni walk away with the Walk the talk Award. You are really an Awesome couple. All of us love you from the bottom of our heart !

Dhanya has bowled a googly at them, lets see how they face this ball. We are watching every step you take nattu mama and we will quote you as precedence. Good luck to you. :)

We are winding up this ceremony with a quick prelude.

Last Year - The come Back kid award must have gone to Raja Anna. For a cracker of a comeback. He Started the race 500 m behind the start line and is now 1000 m ahead of all of us!

Soumya is almost Qualified for a Udaan Award - I don't know how many of you have seen the serial but its a story of a women who fights it out to achieve her dream. Soumya has, From the days i can remember , I have only heard her talking abt being a doctor. And fiught yea she did, I remember her crying coming out of the exam hall every time. She truly made it look like a fight :)
Soumya also should get the Miss 9 over 90 Award - She is the prettiest one in the group without a doubt. All of this will have to wait for her to graduate from college.

Pranith belongs to the Srishti Gang and will need form his own club there :) But all of us have no doubt that he is going to be a Casanova...

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

After seeing the mottai foto arun asked me to upload his childhood foto...
With lot of pressure from Arun.... leaving away all my works.. i searched the cartons and i cud get hold of one which has all the albums.... and i found an interesting album which was taken during that mottai trip... the album includes the foto taken on my first bday followed by the trip to mottai.... the album had some really coool fots which i thot will upload and the purpose for my search was also solved.... yes i got a foto of arooooooon's...

before we seee the fotos in the trip lets seee how arooon is in the early 1980's


Here we go..............





Now comes the mottai trip fotos...

First the star of the day....





Now comes a group foto....


Ravi more or less manages to have a distinct posethroughout the trip..... u will notice in the coming fotos....

As usual soum nd pattti share a special bond......

The Journey to MOTTTAI....

Soum before Mottai...

All of us after MOTTAI..
and the stunnning solo pose from our raleigh raveee


wat was i doing when this foto was taken......




The post does not ends here......
i cud also find the fotos of today's oldies in late 1970's.....

the one solo foto which is misssing..... our raja ram's solo foto.....







Here comes Mr. and Mrs Money.....



They cud manage to get the Ariel view of mithila




i also found a foto of varsha in which she is not in dance dress.... no eye liners...no make up....

If someone had thot one star was missing in the whole foto.... its our pranit....How can i miss him though he is in Bahrain???





This ends the fotos.....

Monday, November 26, 2007

KARTHIGAI CELEBRATIONS AT TRICHY FOR ALL THE TOO GOOD BROTHERS

Here is the blog represnting the oldies
Kartigai was celebrated in a grand scale in Trichy. All the three generations (representatives)were assembled there. Anna manni, Radha, balu, Self and Varsh (ofcourse bunking strike from Tveli).
sat morn till noon: Radhu was struggling with the Pori, to bring in to a shape scolding the other oldies who made this tradition. And finally she succeeded.
The the Appam, Radhu tried and the appam was in pieces (as per varsh 'kothrals'). manni got tensed and she did some adjustments and here it came in good shape.
Then my self and varsh were eagerly waiitng for the Uppu appam and ya it didnt gave any trouble. But only to find out (after naivadyam) that she forgot to put salt in it. (Soory kungakka)
Again Manni came for rescue. Varsh was sitting in the Dining table near all these 'palaharams' and balu athim was tensed and had a tough time saving the eatables form varsh till 6 clock eve.
And Aswathy was lighed with deepam (sorry the live cast will follow later). manni was busy praying for her brothers (Akka Radhu duly handed over Jayannas money to manni, just in time)
My self and Radhu, you know how sincere we are!!!! so not eloborating and Varsh praying too sincere for all his BIG BROTHERS AND KUTTAN (Ravi black mailed her reminding her abt the car he is going to presnt her for her wedding). Anna was supervising everything
Sunday: Manni it was feast all the Pattis (lakshmi, Rukmani and Parvathy) and everything went on well. The after noon varsh started getting tensed, my prog postponed from 3.30 to 6.30. The things became more worse and again with Ahtimbars suggestion it was again postponed to Monday morning (ofcourse no more postponement). Varsha also postponed her trip to monday and ofourse after receiving phone calls from her seniors, ofourse banging)
Another thing Varsh and Balu athimbar had a good time enjoying varshs sms jokes.
Sorry this blog is a liitle longer sorry .....................
Couple of days bak we saw how the transition was frm late mid 80's to mid 2000's............
Now let us quickly see what are the members of 9over90 are busy doin in these days............

This post is just to make fun of what people are busy doin in these days and any similarities to the real life happenings is purely coincidental...

First as usual let us see wat rajjannna does.....






Now let us see what our new couple is doing in DUBAI.....





Now comes Mr.Arun RAMMMMMMMMMMMM
lets seee how ourt jilllu manages his MBA Studies.....




















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We have already seen what Raviii was busy doin and so we move on to Karthik







Live Coverage from Bahrain,Bangalore,Tumkur and Tirunelveli could not be updated due to technical reasons...
But here are some latest news......

latest news from tirunelveli....
we all have bunked the classes to participate in strike.....
Our Varsha who is exceptionally unique than all of us is unique here also and bunks the STRIKE to have a goood time with her mom @ Trichy......


latest news from dhanya.....
She is busy in writing blog for nayainvestors... check out her blog .. www.nayainvestor.blogspot.com


Latest news from Bahrain...
The subscriber cannot be reached at the moment.. so lets try later......


Before we wind up this let me put to u that soum is busy in tumkur learning the tricks in trade and is wondering where her village posting would be....

we would all like to hear more from the oldies.....


Luv u all people...