Rangoli competition in our colony

Rangoli competition

Anybody entering our colony today would have wondered if Margazhi had come many months early. It was so colourful with different rangolis. These beautiful rangolis were done by the residents of the colony for the rangoli competition which is part of Women’s day celebration.

I was seriously watching Sachin batting and the sudden smell of rain made me wonder if it has started raining in Chennai today. I peeped out of balcony to notice water being sprinkled all over the pathway to get it ready for the rangoli competition.

In about 15 minutes time, the place was abuzz with ladies and kids ready to have a look at the contestants and their artistic skills.

First began the Ther kolam. 

On the other side there was a beautiful peacock drawn making me think if the peacock drawn in the white chalk powder is so beautiful how will the final rangoli be!

Another lady was busily drawing the dots with perfection!

There were a few free hand drawings too with a round shape in the centre and getting developed concentrically!

The organizer, other ladies and our President were walking up and down to have a look at the progress as the contestants were busy drawing swift lines and filling up with rangoli amidst the excited kids who were eager to give colouring ideas to their mothers and neighbour aunties!

 
A time limit of two hours was fixed for the competition but the judges were quite lenient

In fact a couple of contestants joined the contest quite late but were quick to complete.

I walked up and down taking photographs of the progress and found the colouring methods used by the ladies very impressive!

Finally after giving a grace time of more than 15 minutes and waiting for all the contestants to complete their rangolis, the judge announced that time was up and the winners were declared promptly

Here are the twelve colourful rangolis

The stunning jewel-like peacock was a clear winner. The colour combination used by this contestant Dharani was very catchy as the rangoli powder was mixed with salt and glitter powder

The second price went to Senthilselvi whose rangoli was that of four parrots on four branches. The way she had bordered around the parrots with a blue colour looked very attractive and was like a carpet

The third price was given to Sangeetha for the three dimensional effect rangoli. She had mixed salt in some colours and rice in others which made it a very different type of rangoli

As the judge rightly said all the rangolis looked beautiful, but as it is a contest a prize has to be announced which need not necessarily mean that the others were not worthy of prizes!

Kudos to the organizers and the contestants!

Eventful Saturday - A short pilgrimage

Short Pilgrimage

On 14 August, we had a short pilgrimage - half a day trip to temples in Thiruvallur and Tirunindravur from our colony. It was a very nice trip with a small group of people who were very cooperative and cheerful all through the trip which is most important for such group trips.

We covered six temples in total, two in Thiruninravur, one in Putlur, one in Kaklur and two in Thiruvallur. Details of the temples in the coming blogs!

We started at 6.20 am in the morning and were back home by 2.00 pm for lunch.  Our friend Bhavani was so nice to accomodate all of us in her house in Thirunindravur and let us have our breakfast and coffee there which we had prepared from home and carried with us in the van.

The weather was fairly pleasant which was an added advantage. All in all it was a great trip as everyone enjoyed it.
Hope to have more such trips in future!

Eventful Sunday - Programme in our Colony

Eventful Sunday - Programme in our Colony


This morning was fun and frolic in our colony!

Aaha FM and Cavin Kare conducted a programme called Super Mom. There was a great participation by the kids in the colony as usual and many ladies came forward to participate in the recipe contest.

Lots of games and sports were also conducted for the children and the kids had great fun.

There was a sale of tupperware products and fancy jewellery by a couple of colony ladies.

The highlight of the programme were the recipe contest and the milk sweets made by the chefs who were also the judges for the recipe contest. The chefs had made paal payasam, ada pradhaman and akkara vadisal. They also explained all the three recipes to the interested ladies

The recipe contest was for any milk based recipes. There were 14 contestants with 13 different sweets and one soup using milk and palak. There were many sweets right from paal payasam with carrot halwa, carrot kheer, bread pudding, paasiparuppu sweet, drydates sweet, a sweet made using milk and china grass, fruit salad, cocunut milk sweet, badam kheer etc.

The  first price went to Mrs. Subbulakshmi for paasi paruppu sweet,

second price to Mrs. Shobha for bread pudding

 and third to Mrs. Parvathy for badam kheer.

It was a pleasure to see the array of various sweets vert artistically displayed by the ladies of the colony!

All in all it was a very interesting Sunday morning!