Category: Personal & Family

Looking Back – Email to Blog Transformation

15 Dec
Raju Alluri 0 Comment Blogging, Entertainment, Personal & Family

Stumbled upon an old email to a group thread, that announced my personal blog and indicated a deviation from the habit of sending emails to relatives and friends groups. This email is sent sometime in Aug 2006 to a group mail of relatives, after I am confident that I am writing blogs regularly. Snipped out personal details of others from that email.

In my case, I started writing lengthy blogs rather than sending lengthy emails ;-).

Read my blog at
http://www.theraju.com/
and especially the personal blog content at
http://www.theraju.com/?cat=4
I may update this more often than the emails I have been sending. The only issue would be that blog content is generic and politically correct, for it to be sitting on a blog.

Good to know that kids are doing fine. And good to know that you are managing some time to go for movies.

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Me and latha have lot of backlog for movies. Only this week, we have seen Vikramarkudu. That will give you an idea of our backlog ;-).

We still need to see bommarillu, but don’t have a slot in calendar for next 2-3 weeks.

Didn’t dare to go near to a theater playing KANK. :-). Most of the web reviews in the first 1-2 days was that the movie is excellent. Anybody who watched the movie said that the movie is a bakwaas.

Spurthi and Surya are busy with some class tests this week. Implies that Latha is also busy.

Well, thats all for now. Celebrate Vinayaka Chavithi. Will send some photos soon.

I really love the opening statement – I started writing lengthy blogs :-). 5+ years down the lane, the habit continued.

Bicycled Every Day of the Month

31 Oct
Raju Alluri 0 Comment Personal & Family

Ever since my student days, this October is probably the first month in which I bicycled every day, no exceptions. Interestingly, the first and last day of the month saw the least distance bicycled – about 2.5km each. Most days saw to the tune of 6km to 11km. There is one day with longest distance, about 16km.

I thought I missed the bus today, when I came back from work at 3.30am and slept till 6.30am. But in the evening, to get a few snags fixed, I took my bicycle out and spent some time roaming around the neighborhood. Once back home, I am checking my logs and found that fact that the month concluded on a very positive not from a physical activity standpoint.

Diwali Night – Part 2

28 Oct
Raju Alluri 0 Comment Entertainment, Personal & Family

We headed out from home in the afternoon on Diwali day and went to Kompally area to meet a few relatives. En route, me and Surya stopped by at our new home to burn a few crackers at the place. We reached the place of our get together by 5.30pm and kids played in the lawns for a while. Our cousins started trickling in by 6pm. We did a long fireworks session till about 10.15 pm and then headed to Palm Meadows community for a quick stopover at the Diwali Celebrations there.

In addition to the first set of pics, here are the pictures from the day.

 

 

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Rakhi 2011

13 Aug
Raju Alluri 0 Comment Entertainment, Food, Personal & Family

This year, the festival of Rakhi fell on a Saturday and most of our relatives have a holiday today. So we planned for a breakfast get-together.

The day started at about 5.00am for us and we are almost done with the arrangements by 7.00am. First guests arrived by 7.00am and the event lasted till about 2.30pm covering breakfast, brunch and lunch.

The gathering turned out to be of 50+ people and three generations of people celebrated Rakhi. Here are some pics from the day.

 

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Kids enjoyed the day a lot and had a blast. Some of them stayed back beyond lunch and played various games. As you can see in the pics, smiley face badges, Tri-Color wristbands (yes, our Independence Day is just a couple of days away) and whistles are hit among the kids.

Breakfast menu included primarily South Indian breakfast items – Idly, Vada, Pesarattu-Upma, Puri, Paakam Gaare (Sweet Vada), Chicken Curry, Kheema curry, various sweets and fruit juices. I should have gained a couple of pounds of weight just by the sweets my sisters fed me today!

For all the folks who joined us today – Thank you very much for a memorable morning!

Tiresome journey

27 Jun
Raju Alluri 0 Comment Personal & Family

Tiring trip to Palakol/Bhimavaram area on Thu/Fri/Sat. Attended a late night wedding in Hyderabad on Thursday and then headed to train station to catch a special train. The train that is supposed to start at 11.30pm actually started at 4.00am, eating away the sleep time. The train reached Palakol only at 1pm. After attending a wedding in Bhimavaram in the evening, boarded another special train that started on-time at 10pm. The train reached Hyderabad late on the next day, at about 10am. Hectic and tiresome.

No laptop with me during the trip and my cell phone is the only device that kept me connected during those boring hours of the day in train. Should have taken a book along rather.

Met quite a few people during these weddings and travel. Made the travel worth.