Indian Association Get-together

Saturday, October 28, 2006

IAOS - Indian Association of Siouxland arranged a get together in SF. See the word Siouxland NOT SiouxFalls..it means literally counties around SF including Minnesota,Iowa,Nebraska and ofcourse SD. They had invited an Indian Orchestra group from Minneapolis. Mostly university students of Minneapolis and software prefoessionals - all in their twenties. Entry was for 15$ with snacks provided. It was a dull affair. The group were amateurs and the audience was unenthusiaistic although the auditorium was full..As my baby was in the orgnizing comittee,i was cajoled/dragged to it. Most of the songs were Hindi with 2 tamil and one telugu. Not surprisingly, the telugu song from Pokiri was welcomed with whistles/claps. A Marathi girl (see Pic) sang Jean's "Kannodu kanbadellam thalaivaa" song with pure carnatic background and tamil accent perfect. Really,i appreciate her effort. In contrast, a tamil girl from the audience rendered "kannalane" from Bombay horribly. During the end, children were lifted to the stage and their performance/dance to the song was sweettt. Everyhing was over by 7:15 Pm and i was back to home by 8 PM.
 
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First snow in Sioux Falls

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
My apartment balcony. 8 AM..



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The green lawn was carpeted by fine layer of snow.
The swimming pool shown in the middle was closed long back in september.



Soon people will rent the private garage in the building basement for 50$ per month lease.


I was shaking out of control by the time i was snapping the third. The rest were rendered useless for the same reason.


To put more color in this dull winter,i tried to add more color in my blog interface.
Is the red and oriental fonts make it snazzy??

 
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