Kris wrote:

goodcitizn wrote:

Kris wrote:

madrasi_idiot wrote:thanks sir kris. happy deepavali to you too!

>>>The veranda pic made me nostalgic for India. Strangely, I sometimes miss the vegetation.

Are you refering to the vegetation on Huzay's face? j/k.

>>Wait. Didn't notice. Huzay doesn't look worse for the wear for all his pain on this forum. His nephew on the right looks rather aged for a teen though:)

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:Nice halwai scene there. Today we got the yearly package from XH's parents. Unfortunately, this came from mumbai, and not our hometown. When it comes from hometown it's a mix of our city's best, and homemade. But chalega.

After struggling alongwith son to open the super tight packaging, Diwali has finally begun!!!

HAPPY DEEPAWALI.

btw, this time i kept the count. 80% of my northie friends wished me Deepavali. 100%, so far, wished me Diwali. Talk about ulti ganga.

PS: Both kids don't care about the day, but they wanted to take a holiday today coz it's excused. And madam wanted to avoid two quizzes. Am gonna wake her up in a few and tell her to clean the house.

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:Nice halwai scene there. Today we got the yearly package from XH's parents. Unfortunately, this came from mumbai, and not our hometown. When it comes from hometown it's a mix of our city's best, and homemade. But chalega.

After struggling alongwith son to open the super tight packaging, Diwali has finally begun!!!

HAPPY DEEPAWALI.

btw, this time i kept the count. 80% of my northie friends wished me Deepavali. 100%, so far, wished me Diwali. Talk about ulti ganga.

PS: Both kids don't care about the day, but they wanted to take a holiday today coz it's excused. And madam wanted to avoid two quizzes. Am gonna wake her up in a few and tell her to clean the house.

So as it turns out everything but one was home made. No wonder when we were eating all things yesterday, they were all astonishingly good. I thought maybe they got stuff from a new vendor this time. Yep, x-mil made like 10-11 Diwali snack items for her kids and grand kids. And in our case she insisted that they send a kaju katli box too coz 'kiddo loves kaju katli'...x-fil was remarkably sarcastic when he told us that but anyway,  *touched*

Kinnera wrote:

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:Nice halwai scene there. Today we got the yearly package from XH's parents. Unfortunately, this came from mumbai, and not our hometown. When it comes from hometown it's a mix of our city's best, and homemade. But chalega.

After struggling alongwith son to open the super tight packaging, Diwali has finally begun!!!

HAPPY DEEPAWALI.

btw, this time i kept the count. 80% of my northie friends wished me Deepavali. 100%, so far, wished me Diwali. Talk about ulti ganga.

PS: Both kids don't care about the day, but they wanted to take a holiday today coz it's excused. And madam wanted to avoid two quizzes. Am gonna wake her up in a few and tell her to clean the house.

So as it turns out everything but one was home made. No wonder when we were eating all things yesterday, they were all astonishingly good. I thought maybe they got stuff from a new vendor this time. Yep, x-mil made like 10-11 Diwali snack items for her kids and grand kids. And in our case she insisted that they send a kaju katli box too coz 'kiddo loves kaju katli'...x-fil was remarkably sarcastic when he told us that but anyway,  *touched*

So, do they mail from India every year? *doubly touched*

garam_kuta wrote:
very true as deepam intrinsically evokes oLi so it will be kind of semi-oruporut panmozhi!
Take good care of yourself akka and enjoy தீபாவளி SKC