The Telugu New Year "UGADI"

The Telugu New Year,the first and foremost festival celebrated by telugu people.
A special dish is prepared by these people this day in which all the tastes will be included.Usually all these tastes together they say it as "shadruchulu" which means shad=6 ruchulu=tastes.The day is started with wearing new clothes and visiting temple and taking blessings from parents and big.Then they take the special dish made up of tamarind juice,jaggery,neem flower,coconut,banana,dry mango etc..very tasty,hmmm yummy dish.The ingredients differ at times.

My favourite dish.One special reason to prepare this dish is that life consists of all the tastes like bitter,sweet,sour etc..Excluding this dish they make other dishes like "paravanam","pulihora".

We at home enjoy a lot .We try doing all good things that day so that the total year will be good.

"Happy Ugadi"
"Ugadi Shubhakanshalu"

Colorful Festival Holi

Hi All

The festival of colors HOLI
My experience with Holi from childhood are,I used to wear old clothes during night.Once i getup in the morning my frndz in our colony would be ready to attack me.At first to start is a problem for everybody but once we start we would njoy a lot .With all colors mixed with water.We used to add color in huge drum.we would be exhauted,hungry,cold after fews hours.After palying it used to take hours to clean ourselves.After all this we used to have lunch with all special traditional items.In that way i used to celebrate holi.
The reason was the festival HOLI was first celebrated when the evil HOLIKA and the king HIRANYAKASYAB was destroyed by Lord Vishnu's devotee PRAHALAD(son of Hiranyakashyab) ,they have tried to burn the little boy live.Another reason being getting the prosperity in life that comes with the harvest season for the hindu people.The time when it is celebrated is the day after the full moon in early March or April every year.Playing with colors is the tradition of celebrating this festival HOLI in INDIA.
These days everybody prefer playing with natural colors made at home instead of harmful chemical colors.The natural colors help our skin not to get destroyed from chemicals.The stlye of playing with colors may be in different ways, either they throw color powder or apply colors mixed with water.There are water guns.pichkari's to throw colors on others.All religions in India celebrate this festival.There is no age limit also for this festival,evrybody small,big play this festival.
Be very careful while applying the colors they may go in teeth,eyes etc.. in exictment,so play safe and healthy.

Wish You'll A Very Happy n Safe Holi

Feelings

Hey the common word heard and felt in everybody's life.We have A to Z feeling that can be expressed(just have a look at the picture and the meaning below).

Angry="feeling of anger(strong emotion)"

Baffled="people who are frustrated"

Confused="Mistake one thing for another"

Depressed="Lower someone's spirit"

Excited="Raise to a higher energy level"

Fulfilled="Fill or meet a want or need"

Glad="Cheerful and bright"

Happy="Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune"

Indifferent="Being neither good nor bad"

Jealous="Showing extreme cupidity" or "Suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival"

Keen="Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions"

Loved="Have a great affection or liking for"

Miserable="Very unhappy"

Nervous="Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety"

Optimistic="Expecting the best"

Proud="Feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride"

Quizzical="As if being expected to know something that you do not know"

Rejected="Refuse to accept"

Suspicious="Not as expected"

Tired="Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress"

Unloved="Not loved"

Vengeful="Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge"

Worried="Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress"

Xenophobic="Suffering from xenophobia; having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign"

Yearning="Prolonged unfulfilled desire or need"

Zealous="Marked by active interest and enthusiasm"

What are feelings?Feelings are kind of emotions to express oursleves.Feelings are those which come from the heart deep within.

Each and everybody in their daily life will behave and express there feelings.Depending on their mood and situation their feelings come out.

I came across almost most of these feeling in my life until now.Did U'LL????

Sankranthi

• This is main festival celebrated in the village areas for the new harvest they get in this days.
• The Sun After this day onwards will get brighter and brighter day by day,it will shift from one month to other month named "Makara".Hence the name "Makara Sankranthi".
• On this day morning they make milk to boil and flow from the vessel.Based on the direction the milk first flows out there are many beliefs.With this milk they make "paravanam"(the traditional dish).
• This day evening people fly kites.The reason behind it is that the direction of the air will change from sankranthi day onwards.
• Another dish is made this day called "Pongal" Which is made up of rice,pepper,pesarapapu etc.. for Sun god.So from this day onwards the Lord Sun will climb the 7 horses charriot and travel until the end of summer.The severityof heat will be more.
• They are many more traditional dishes made these days like Pullihora,Bobbatlu,Burelu,Vada etc..

Happy Makara Sankranthi

Few Sayings I love and learnt a lot

• God Does Everything For Our Own Good.
• All that Gliters Is not Gold
• Free your heart from hatred - Forgive.
• Free your mind from worries - Most never happens.
• Live simply and appreciate what you have.Give more.
• Expect less from people but more from God.
• Faith makes everything possible, Hope makes everything work, Love makes everything beautiful. May u have all the three as u begin each day.
• "Excellence" is a drive from inside, not outside.Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and excellence.(taken from http://neel-d.blogspot.com/)
• Even crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all problems seem to be simple only when we find the solution, with cool thinking.(taken from http://neel-d.blogspot.com/)
• When I born, I Black.When I grow up, I Black.When I go in Sun, I Black.When I scared, I Black.And when I die, I still Black.
  And you White fellow...When you born, You Pink.When you grow up, You White.When you go in the Sun, You Red.When you cold, You Blue.When you are scared, You Yellow.When you sick, You Green.And when you die, You Grey.
  And you call me Coloured... (Taken from http://www.sudeep.me/)
  
  

Bhoghi

• Bhoghi festival is one of the festivals celebrated during MAKARA SANKRANTI.
• In the early morning only everybody get up early and put a Big Fire called "Bhoghi Manta" in which all the waste materials like wodden sticks,cardboards,pidakalu(make with dung) etc.. there at home will be burnt.
• Why they burn means to reduce all the waste materials at home.
• In that fire heat all the family members will take in the heat(which is produced in cold whether while the snow is falling in the early morning) which is very good for health and also the bad germs on our body get attracted to the heat and jump in the fire and die.
• After the Bhoghi manta is completed the kids in the family will be taken inside and make them sit and put oil on their middle part of the head and they take blessings form parents like "Ayushmanbava","Vidyapraptirastu"and after this they apply (nuvvula nune) all over the body and wait for an hour allowing the oil to get into the body nicely for easy moving of all the joints and clearing the pours also.
• Then they do bath and wash their hair with Reta juice(Kunkudukai Rasam).Why the olden days people used to prefer Reta Juice for head bath??Scientific reason is that the bitterness of the Juice will reduce the dandruff and also the total body will be wetened with that juice so no skin problems occur at all.
• After they take bath they wear new clothes putting a pinch of turmeric to them and prey god and then again take blessings from their parents.
• Then they take all varieties of food prepared.
• In the evening time the neighbours,relatives are called for a function at every house in which all the small children are mad to sit and pour "Bhoghi Pallu" over them.
• Bhoghi pallu means the Red small berries(Regipallu/Arka pallu) are taken like a resemblence of lord Sun the shape,the color,the name(arka=Sun).This means that the children should be all along their life with good health and get all the good power form sun.
• In this way we celebrate the Bhoghi Festival(first festival in Sankranthi).

Now I hope u know why we celebrate this festival.Hope u will follow them also.

Have A Great Bhoghi

Bhoghi Subhakanshalu

New Year

This is an eve celebrated all over the world welcoming the new year.
This was actually celebrated widly and mostly in other countries but these days the indians have started.
All the people celebrate this new year for forgettings all the bad experiences in the previous year and welcoming the new year hoping all the year should be colourful,cheerful and get all the prousperity in their lifes.
The people will also put some resolutions for maintaining all over the year for their benifit and also slowly reduce their weak points and increase their confidence levels and also good points.

So All You out there Have A Fabulous New Year 2009.

HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR